Going to Council April 2

Instructions on a proposed settlement of the appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal by Camrost-Felcorp Inc. with respect to the lands located at 3672 Kariya Drive & 134-152 Burnhamthorpe Road West, (Ward 7)
 
It's difficult to squeeze a family's week worth of groceries in a folding shopping cart or not as convenient taking the whole family somewhere on the TTC. However, post war suburbia with Mississauga/Brampton representing the most populous suburban jurisdictions in North America give low density, family oriented housing a bad wrap despite Toronto having numerous strong examples of pre war designed neighbourhoods. People drive everywhere. As for the Toronto neighbourhoods, the majority split their time between walking, transit and driving. However, those neighbourhoods, IMHO, in part to suburban sprawl are been viewed as poor land use and zoning allowing modest family homes carved into narrow shoebox flats with minimal outdoor area are being celebrated.
 
maestro said:
It's difficult to squeeze a family's week worth of groceries in a folding shopping cart or not as convenient taking the whole family somewhere on the TTC. However, post war suburbia with Mississauga/Brampton representing the most populous suburban jurisdictions in North America give low density, family oriented housing a bad wrap despite Toronto having numerous strong examples of pre war designed neighbourhoods. People drive everywhere. As for the Toronto neighbourhoods, the majority split their time between walking, transit and driving. However, those neighbourhoods, IMHO, in part to suburban sprawl are been viewed as poor land use and zoning allowing modest family homes carved into narrow shoebox flats with minimal outdoor area are being celebrated.
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People often drive everywhere in north York Scarborough and Etobicoke as well. There’s a reason ford won on subways subways subways. Car drivers didn’t want LRTs in their way and they wanted transit out of their mind. Downtown or street car suburbs do not represent all of Toronto. That’s disingenuous. At the very least Mississauga is doing it’s best to build as dense as possible.

Once again I lived in Scarborough growing up and we lived in our car. I lived at Bathurst and eglinton and I also lived in our car. The one place I didn’t drive for a majority of my trips was when I lived directly next to union. As for my Mississauga residence which is a stone throws away from this development, I walk to get coffee I walk to the keg. I walk to driftwood. I walk to church. I walk my kids to elementary school. I walk to my Hudson Bay sales. I walk to the movie theatre. I walk to the library. I walk to tennis. I walk far more in Mississauga than anywhere I lived in Toronto outside of next to union station. Spoiler alert. Most people don’t live next to union station.
 
May 5
All the trees on the land for this site have been cut down. Some may have to do with the X road that will run from the new Webb Dr extension to Sq One by the Exchange Rd Even the store material from the Exchange hole has been removed.
 
drum118 said:
May 5
All the trees on the land for this site have been cut down. Some may have to do with the X road that will run from the new Webb Dr extension to Sq One by the Exchange Rd Even the store material from the Exchange hole has been removed.
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I was about to post a photo of this. I think you are right about the road. As you can see on the photo, the clearing is just east of Fairview Public School.
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superior_chromatic said:
I was about to post a photo of this. I think you are right about the road. As you can see on the photo, the clearing is just east of Fairview Public School.View attachment 649138
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I shot it A few hours ago and the Exchange and Sq One road don't line up with this cut as it is to the right where trees are. Not all the Exchange dirt has been removed as well there are some trees next to Burnhamthrope Rd that needs to be cut.

Was told tonight that the Webb extension is on hold.
 
drum118 said:
The Webb extension been on the books for a few decades that I know of and stand to be corrected on it.

If you look at the site in the past, there was a so call road between the park and the site south of Enfield intersection where Webb was to go ' I have never seen a plan for the road and assume it would be an weir connection and use a small section of the site, but not the case today.

With what I saw, haft of the land on Kanya Dr to the south as well all the land to the west that has been used a a storage area is being use for the new road. What happens to the west of the storage area is unknown including where there store the dirt from the other site.

If Camrost-Felcorp has all the land west of Kanya Dr, the Webb extension will angle toward that so call road until it past the school. The school yard maybe able to see more land for it.

I would not be surprised if the excess land to the south will become part of the park.
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This is from 2021. Are they not following this?

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interchange42 said:
This is from 2021. Are they not following this?

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That is what the new Webb Drive looks like now in rough in shape with the intersection built for it now. There was to be a 3 north street and the Exchange road will connect to the close Exchange site road that will connect to the Square One current road. The other one is next to the Davis buildings that is supposed to connect to a future road where 201 City Centre building is and connect to the current traffic light intersection for Square One Rd. That road is supposed to connect to Rathburn as some future date that will have to be raise to match the height difference.

Don't know who own the land for the red outline block and the one beside it not marked as these 3 blocks have change hands a number of times. Seen no plans for any of the sites other than part of the Southlands by another developer
 
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