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Permalink Reply by Leslie Barns on October 26, 2011 at 3:31pm

Sharing is one thing.  Jamming people into a neighbourhood in order to "create density" to fix problems at City Hall is another.  I am curious about a couple of things you said:  How are you going to get streetcars past Dundas & Broadview?  Where are they going to turn around?  Why would the Beaches feel anything about Carlaw & Dundas?

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Permalink Reply by Trish Krause on October 27, 2011 at 4:20pm

give him a call -- he apparently likes to chat while driving.

Kyle said:

@Marla, I miss some of those retro stores as well but I suspect the movement of the film studios and increase in rents owe more to their loss of 9-5 foot traffic than the influx of new residents. I'm sure some of the new homeowners may fall into the category of house poor, but those moving into the condo units don't necessarily fall into that category. I've got to think that a store owner on Queen is going to welcome 1,000+ new residents to the area, some of whom will become customers.

 

@Trish, agree that it doesn't hurt to try. All of my emails to the mayor get returned with standard form letters but the more we push, the better.

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Permalink Reply by Pat on October 27, 2011 at 9:29pm

But don't, for goodness sake, show up in his driveway in a red dress. :-D

Trish Krause said:

give him a call -- he apparently likes to chat while driving.

Kyle said:

@Marla, I miss some of those retro stores as well but I suspect the movement of the film studios and increase in rents owe more to their loss of 9-5 foot traffic than the influx of new residents. I'm sure some of the new homeowners may fall into the category of house poor, but those moving into the condo units don't necessarily fall into that category. I've got to think that a store owner on Queen is going to welcome 1,000+ new residents to the area, some of whom will become customers.

 

@Trish, agree that it doesn't hurt to try. All of my emails to the mayor get returned with standard form letters but the more we push, the better.

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Permalink Reply by bill on October 27, 2011 at 10:51pm

 

I'm concerned about Carlaw, too.  These new buildings are too high - double what the allowable density was supposed to be.  What I was told was that the city failed to respond to Brad Lamb's application for the Flatiron and so he was able to go straight to the OMB, which gave him 12 storeys.  Surely this was a failure of our local councillor.

I worry that the wonderful, low-density feel of Leslieville will be forever changed by these towers; that this marks the beginning of our being subsumed by 'downtown'.  I hope I'm wrong.    

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Permalink Reply by Susan Wood on October 27, 2011 at 11:05pm

TTC past Dundas and Broadview: Buses would be a faster to implement than building streetcar tracks. Eventually, streetcars may be an option.

Beaches: For Beaches residents who commute downtown, they will be affected by Leslieville traffic.

 

Scratch Egg said:

Sharing is one thing.  Jamming people into a neighbourhood in order to "create density" to fix problems at City Hall is another.  I am curious about a couple of things you said:  How are you going to get streetcars past Dundas & Broadview?  Where are they going to turn around?  Why would the Beaches feel anything about Carlaw & Dundas?

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Permalink Reply by Leslie Barns on October 28, 2011 at 3:42am

That is true.  I guess that any money going into density studies, or any insight into potential for any real-estate in the city, is wasted funds, and this is an example of how it just doesn't matter.  I wonder if this stuff happens in the Beach.  Of course it doesn't, because that's where our councillor hides.  It's also where she plans to "save the heritage of our neighbourhoods".  She's all noisy when it comes to the Port Lands, a situation that's not in her jurisdiction, but quiet when developers shove something big and ugly in her own Ward.  What's even worse is that people continue to vote for her.  

bill said:

 

I'm concerned about Carlaw, too.  These new buildings are too high - double what the allowable density was supposed to be.  What I was told was that the city failed to respond to Brad Lamb's application for the Flatiron and so he was able to go straight to the OMB, which gave him 12 storeys.  Surely this was a failure of our local councillor.

I worry that the wonderful, low-density feel of Leslieville will be forever changed by these towers; that this marks the beginning of our being subsumed by 'downtown'.  I hope I'm wrong.    

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