Working group sessions at Quarry meeting
Here’s a follow-up to last week’s Quarry meeting from Concerned Citizens of Quarry Lands Development.
Among other things, they are flagging an upcoming Ontario Municipal Board hearing about the Conservatory Group’s high-rise towers slated for the eastern portion of the Quarry.
The OMB hearing begins on Tuesday, October 16th.
The CCQLD letter is below.
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Thanks to those who came out to the meeting on Oct. 3 to listen to and provide feedback on Build Toronto’s development ideas for the western portion of the Quarry Lands site.
Build Toronto’s initial plans call for its roughly 20 acres of land to be divided among low-rise residential (50 percent), retail (25 percent) and park space (25 percent) uses.
We will be providing a more complete update in the near future once we have received and looked through all the feedback provided by those in attendance. In brief, the retail development and traffic were identified as points of concern. Some people expressed satisfaction that only low-rise residential is being considered.
Artist rendering of high-rise towers proposed by Conservatory Group
There was also ongoing concern expressed about the Conservatory Group’s plans for the eastern portion of the site — currently zoned for high-rise residential towers — and how any Build Toronto development might affect what happens on Conservatory Group land.
OMB hearing next Tuesday
On that note, there is another hearing at the Ontario Municipal Board coming up next week, beginning on Tuesday October 16 at 10am. This is over the Conservatory Group’s application to sever one of its four ‘blocks’ — the area known as block 1 — on the southwest portion of its lands.
CCQLD will be there to speak against to the Conservatory Group’s application, and to voice once again the community’s unanimous opposition to the proposed high-rise development under consideration and the outdated 1960s zoning on which it is based.
If any members of the community would like to attend the hearing, it would be helpful if you could contact Joanne Smith, (zebra@sympatico.ca), so we can have an idea of numbers. The hearing could extend over several days and we do not yet have confirmation when CCQLD’s presentation will be.
Thanks for your ongoing involvement and we’ll be back in touch soon.
Board of Directors,
Concerned Citizens of Quarry Lands Development
Whatever happened to a parklands study?? Mid-term, municipally, and I haven’t heard or read anything about this option. It was something Gary Crawford and other Ward 36 candidates included in their campaign programmes last municipal election. Has a parklands study been pursued? If not, why? And why hasn’t CCQLD pushed this option? Nothing should be moving forward until such a study has been done – whether Build Toronto or the Conservatory Group (not to mention terminating Beach Fairway Golf Range’s lease).
Also share Jon Beer’s disappointment on the loss of the driving range. So, people will have to jump in their cars and go how far to do this, now? And all that talk about staying active, fit, etc. – well, just talk. And we’re losing the range for what? – more retail space??? We have empty stores in the existing shopping mall at Victoria Park/Gerrard. At Shoppers’ World. And on nearby main street retail strips – along Danforth Ave., Kingston Rd. and even Queen St. East. Just makes the loss of the driving range and those unheeded 7,000 signatures even harder to take. Cheers for a liveable city!