[Northern Light]

While south of Bloor St, Palmerston Blvd has those beautiful old 4-storeys, it appears Councillor Saxe believes Palmerston Avenue north of Bloor St. -- where there are only 2 storey homes -- should be protected and heights limited on it and surrounding streets, with her letter/motion that went to community council this week requesting staff look into designating it a Heritage Conservation District. Disappointing to see more alignment with and appeasing nimbys in a transit rich neighbourhood.

From here: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TE26.58

Things are not always as they seem.

 

[afransen]

I could be sympathetic to this kind of NIMBYism if we had a land value tax.

 

[IsaacKhouzam]

Proponents of these ideas should be aggressively getting out there with examples of four story apartment buildings that fit beautifully within out existing single family neighbourhoods. There are tons of examples!

I don't expect this will change anybody's mind, but I'd like to chime in with some counter examples of 4+ storey buildings that make no attempt to "fit in" to lower-rise contexts and yet do not prevent their surrounding neighbourhoods from being vibrant and livable. See the following from New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Montreal:

 

[evandyk]

There are plenty of examples of this in Toronto as well. The Annex has a bunch, as do places like Yonge and St. Clair.