Update Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards Monitoring on the agenda tomorrow September 16

Tomorrow at City Hall, there's a meeting of the Planning and Growth Management Committeel.  One of the agenda items is entitled Mid-Rise Performance Standards Monitoring.  Here's the top line extract:

Summary

In July 2010, Council directed staff to use the Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards in the evaluation of mid-rise development proposals.  Council also adopted a monitoring period to the end of 2014 in order to measure the effectiveness of the Standards. 

This report represents the results of over five years of monitoring of the Performance Standards through data analysis of mid-rise building applications and consultation with city staff, City Council and external stakeholders (e.g. local residents and ratepayer groups, architects, urban designers, planners and developers), including experiences at the Ontario Municipal Board and advice from the Design Review Panel.  Review of the data analysis coupled with feedback received guided the recommended changes to the Performance Standards set forth in this report.  If you click on the link below it will take you to the agenda item.  

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2015.PG6.6

If you follow the link above under Background Information, attachment number 6 is the top line summary of Toronto's Chief Planner Roundtable from April 2015. 

It's interesting to compare the city's written version and the live video compilation created by Tim Kirkwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtar3XaM8o&feature=youtu.be 

 "How much someone paid for a site is not a driver of livability. It's not a driver of good form.  It doesn't in anyway ensure neighborhood compatibility, it usually results in pretty onerous shadow impacts and transition issues. " Jennifer Keesmaat, Executive Director and Planner  - City of Toronto

 

If you think Leslieville's future development should be based on vision and not on property speculation please help by donating today.

 

 

Message from Peter Tabuns

Toronto would not be the city it is today if citizens had not come together to defend their urban heritage and defend good planning. I want to thank the Leslieville Community Coalition Incorporated for their work to keep the east end and our city livable.

 

Peter Tabuns

MPP for Toronto-Danforth

OMB Mediation Update: The fight continues for suitable scale and better design at 1327 Queen E.

Hello everyone – hope you’re having a great Pan Am summer.  The LCC has been active but unable to let you know all that we’ve been doing due to confidentiality issues.  The short version is that the board members attended two mediation sessions with our lawyer at the OMB in July. It was not successful – that’s all we are at liberty to say, but we intend to continue to engage with the developer via both our lawyer and theirs.  

 

Because the mediation wasn’t successful our next step will be the hearing in January.  This entails a stronger focus on fundraising by the LCC.  You can financially support the LCC’s efforts by clicking the button  

we have activated on the blog http://www.leslievillecommunity.ca/2014/09/etcc-steering-committee-summary.html  We need to raise thousands of dollars more to cover legal costs so that we can represent the views of the community at the OMB.  Please help our efforts by sharing this message through your personal networks.

 

LCC member Tim Kirkwood has condensed the City of Toronto’s videotaped April 24th roundtable discussion on  Mid-Rise Buildings: Growing Toronto's Neighbourhoods* into a highly watchable and very informative 34 minute highlight version.  If you have the time it’s very much worth the watch.

Click here  -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtar3XaM8o&feature=youtu.be

 

Lawn signs are still available at Gadabout – 1300 Queen East for a small donation.    As we get any sharable news we’ll post it on the site. Thanks for your support. 

 

 

*(see complete site and details here http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=4a2946bca58c1410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD )