Mark your calendars: Monday January 25 10:00 a.m. OMB Hearing Please Plan to attend

On Monday January 25th at 10:00 a.m. the hearing for Rockport’s application to build a 25.8 metre high condo tower, located on the 1327-1339 Queen East site, will be heard at the Ontario Municipal Board. The Leslieville Community Coalition, represented by our lawyer and expert witnesses, will be there and we need your support. We hope to get as many community people as possible to attend so that the Board Member adjudicating will understand that this is a precedent-setting decision that will impact a community. The Board needs to see that this community cares and that it believes in planning good development, not development driven planning. 

Please mark it in your calendars and make arrangements to come. 

Please share this information with your friends and neighbours. Ontario Municipal Board 10:00 a.m. Monday January 25th 16th Fl, , 655 Bay Street, 16th Floor Toronto ON M5G 1E5 

 

Also on Tuesday January 19th the “Ashbridge Precinct” Guidelines were passed by TEYCC which gives this area (Leslie – Coxwell) guidelines for the developers to follow (or not as we have unfortunately seen). Here is a link to the video from the teycc Ashbridge Precinct Guidelines Motion at TEYCC– interesting dynamic 

 

The only questioning of the report was by Councillor Davis who is the Councillor who has the Ward opposite Councillor McMahon on Danforth. Gregg Lintern Director, Community Planning, Toronto East York, speaks to the actual Ashbridge Precinct guidelines in such a laudatory fashion that one then wonders how City Planning could have caved on the Rockport file. 

Councillor Davis addresses the fact that these guidelines have gotten us away “from a rigid formulaic approach to get the nuance of local communities”.