Tag Archive for ‘development’
Councillors vote to fight condos at OMB
Wide sidewalks, a three-storey look and open views of the Kew Beach fire hall – that’s how city councillors hope a revised zoning bylaw will shape any future development along Queen Street East from Coxwell Avenue to Nursewood Road. But a legal test of the new rules is already underway. Two developers who are separately [...]
Plans for Quarry Lands aired at Community Council
Build Toronto’s plans for its portion of vacant land northeast of Gerrard and Victoria Park were before Scarborough Community Council last week, with the presentation of a preliminary report on an application for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning Amendment. The biggest news is the inclusion in the current plan of a single large retail [...]
Queen and Woodbine condo clash looming
The recently adopted Beach Urban Design Guidelines (UDG) may face a trial by fire at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), as two development proposals for the northwest and northeast corners of Queen and Woodbine do not meet the new guidelines. The city’s Planning Department and Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon indicated their intention to defend [...]
Condo proposals exceed new Queen Street guidelines
The recently adopted Beach Urban Design Guidelines (UDG), completed after months of community consultation and work by the city’s planning department and dozens of concerned Beach residents, is already facing its first two challenges, in the form of rezoning applications on the northwest and northeast corners of Queen and Woodbine. Both applications are for six-storey [...]
CCQLD holds annual meeting
The annual general meeting of the Concerned Citizens for Quarry Land Development (CCQLD) was held at Birchcliff Bluffs Church on Jan. 23. About 75 local people braved the Arctic chill to attend. They were provided with an update on the recent actions at the quarry land site, and to elect the 2013 CCQLD Board of [...]
Queen Street guidelines approved
After a dozen deputations both for and against, and many months of Beachers fighting passionately both for and against, Toronto and East York Community Council ignored a small but vocal group of objectors, and unanimously voted in favour of a new set of urban design guidelines, created after a months-long visioning study process instigated by [...]
Quarry lands severance approved
Plans to build two high rise apartments on the former quarry lands, northeast of Gerrard and Victoria Park, have been given the go-ahead at the Ontario Municipal Board. GCD Trustee Limited (the Conservatory Group) applied to sever an 11,907 square metre section of its property to build the first phase of its plan on the [...]
Queen Street rules draw protest and support
Well over 200 people crowded into the Kew Beach Public School gym on Oct. 23, for a meeting organized by the Beach Residents Association of Toronto (BRAT), responsible for the ‘Save Queen Street’ campaign, which has featured lawn signs, robo-calls and the resurfacing of former politicians. The group is opposed to a proposed set of [...]
Build Toronto lays out plans for 20 acres of Quarry Lands
Over 100 East End residents gathered on very short notice in the cafeteria at Malvern Collegiate Institute on Wednesday, Oct. 3 to hear about Build Toronto’s proposal for about 20 acres of land east of Victoria Park and north of Gerrard Street East, known as the Quarry Lands. Most of the crowd were members of [...]
Queen Street Visioning Study comes to an end
The final public meeting in the Queen Street East Visioning Study process was held on Sept. 19 at the Toronto Fire Academy, with a vocal group representing a number of local interests taking part. A draft of the proposed new Urban Design Guidelines was presented by James Parakh, the city’s Urban Design Program Manager. Also [...]
