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Province’s new rules allowing sky-blocking tower in North Leaside

May 4, 2022May 6, 2022 Brian Baker 0 Comment construction, development, Geoff Kettel, Jaye Robinson, Leaside Residents' Association, Midtown In Focus, Ontario Land Tribunal, Ontario Municipal Board

The provincial government’s rewrite of Toronto’s Midtown in Focus plan has left North Leaside residents potentially in the dark.

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North Toronto Daily Updates

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, Avenue Road, bakery, Barry Sherman, bike lanes, bus, café, candy, cannabis, car crash, car thefts, carbon monoxide, child care, child pornography, COVID-19, development, dog poop, Don Valley Golf Course, fire, fire truck, Fraserwood Avenue, gun control, gunshots, hate crime, homicide, Honey Sherman, knife, Lawrence Avenue East, libraries, Little Jamaica, Loblaws, map, McSorley's Saloon and Grill, Metro, motorcyclist, Mt. Pleasant Road, North Toronto Collegiate, North Toronto Hockey Association, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, overdoses, parking permits, patios, Playa Cabana Bar Esquina, pollinator gardens, power outage, rents, Rob Oliphant, SafeTO, schools, shooting, Shoppers Drug Mart, snow clearing, Sobeys, Starbucks, Stephanie Bowman, subway, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Transit Commission, vaccinations, vaccine, Valentine's Day, vigil, Yonge Eglinton, Yonge Eglinton Centre, Yonge Street

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

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Three towers proposed to replace four low-rise rentals in Flemingdon Park

December 24, 2021December 29, 2021 Ameer Shash Damis Properties, Denzil Minnan-Wong, development, Don Mills Road, Michael Coteau, Rochefort Drive

A developer has applied to build three towers to replace four low-rise rental buildings in Flemingdon Park but some residents are not happy.

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Opponents of Brunswick renovation raising funds for appeal

August 19, 2021August 24, 2021 Rodger Burnside development, Friends of 225 Brunswick, Harbord Village Residents' Association

A residents’ group opposed to an approved building renovation at 225 Brunswick Ave. has created a funding page to raise money for the appeal.

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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: March–April 2021

April 30, 2021November 16, 2021 Streeter staff ActiveTO, arson, automated speed enforcement, bank robberies, baseball, Bermondsey Transfer Station, Brad Bradford, break and enter, child luring, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Dentonia Park Golf Course, development, Eastern Avenue, fatality, Green Party, gunshots, home invasion, Jane Anderson, knife, live music, Loblaws, luring, medication, Michael Garron Hospital, missing person, Paula Fletcher, pedestrian, Peter Tabuns, power outage, Puppetmongers Theatre, SafeTO, school closures, shooting, smoke alarms, Toronto Police, vaccine, wheelchair

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

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Residents say proposed Yonge-Eglinton development ignores their concerns

April 29, 2021April 30, 2021 Dennis Hanagan Andy Gort, development, Eglinton Avenue, Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations, Josh Matlow, Oxford Properties Group, South Eglinton Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association, Toronto Transit Commission, Yonge Street

When the developer made its Yonge-Eglinton proposal to the city, it ignored locals’ expressed concerns, residents’ group says.

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Residents fight to save ‘three queer spaces’ from condo development

March 12, 2020March 13, 2020 Vatché Ayvazian Church Street, Crews & Tangos, development, Graywood Group

A petition to save the popular Crews & Tangos from making way for a condo development is continuing to gain strength despite the bar signing a lease.

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‘Architectural gem’ of a development to replace houses, doctors’ offices

March 20, 2019 Brian Baker Altree Developments, development, Forest Hill Road, Gordon Sussman, Josh Matlow, St. Clair Avenue West

A proposed nine-storey, 85-unit building at 2 Forest Hill Road could change the profile of St. Clair Avenue West, replacing buildings at Forest Hill Road.

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Residents cast a shadow on developer at public consultation

June 4, 2018November 24, 2020 Brian Baker development, Josh Matlow, Mt. Pleasant Road, Roehampton Suites Hotel, Streetwise Capital Partners, Sweeny and Co. Architects

Developer Streetwise Capital Partners Inc. presented their 44-storey, mixed-use building to residents at the very building that will be demolished for it, the Roehampton Suites Hotel at 808 Mt. Pleasant Rd. at a public consultation May 17.

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Developer confronted with construction-fatigued residents in Yonge-Eglinton

May 29, 2018June 25, 2018 Brian Baker development, Eglinton Avenue East, Josh Matlow, Madison Group

The wider cumulative issues facing development in the Yonge-Eglinton area came to the fore during a developer’s community consultation May 16.

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Fate of Laird-Eglinton development awaits planning study, consultations

April 6, 2018April 13, 2018 Brian Baker and Rodger Burnside Carol Burtin Fripp, development, Eglinton Avenue East, Geoff Kettel, Laird Avenue, Leaside Property Owners Association

It may be overlooked amid all the construction taking place on Eglinton Avenue for the Crosstown LRT stations. But there’s another potentially massive development waiting in the wings at the Laird-Eglinton intersection.

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Community groups come together to oppose Lawrence Park proposal

February 22, 2018March 11, 2018 Brian Baker Christin Carmichael Greb, Debra Satok, development, Lawrence Avenue West, Linda McCarthy, Lytton Park Residents' Organization, Old Orchard Grove Ratepayers' Association, Ontario Municipal Board, South Armour Heights Residents' Association

Three community organizations are combining forces to oppose a planned development at 250 Lawrence Ave. W., which has been appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board.