LPOA Special Summer Meeting

We will be having an August special meeting of the LPOA directors on Tuesday August 4th at 7.30 p.m. at Trace Manes Community Centre.  At this point there are two main items for the agenda: Bayview Eglinton LRT Station and Sunnybrook plaza and OMB appeals update and hiring of expert planner Leaside heritage update As …

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City Planning Open House June 16

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, City Planning Staff is holding an Open House to discuss revised proposed changes to the Healthy Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhoods and Apartment Neighbourhoods sections of the Plan. Open House details are provided in the PDF notice. Tuesday, June 16, 20156:30 – 9 p.m. (staff presentation starts at 7 p.m.)Room 308-309, Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto …

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Bike to Work Day Monday, May 25

We assemble at Laird and Eglinton, at 6.45 a.m. Then ride across Eglinton, then down Yonge, picking up people all along the way, and head down to City Hall Enjoy a free pancake breakfast with hundreds of other riders. Registration not required See more details of fabulous Bike Month activities.

Rail Safety First – Town Hall

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. U of T Auditorium – UTS/Sociology/OISE Building – St. George Campus371 Bloor St. West Toronto, ON M5S 2R7 Train derailments involving dangerous goods have become extremely frequent in North America making headlines on an almost monthly basis. Millions of Canadians live, work or attend school within the 1km …

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What’s Out There Weekend Toronto – Leaside event

Leaside and Garden Court Apartments walk Complementing The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape conference, discover Toronto’s unique and diverse range of landscapes through FREE expert-led tours of more than thirty sites ranging from the waterfront to the ravines, and everything in between. The tours are free, but please register for the walks you’re …

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Two important public consultation meetings on proposed developments April 22 & 28

As most of you are aware, there are a number of large development proposals in the works for the Leaside area, requiring zoning amendments and/or official plan amendments. Each of these developments as currently proposed raise some serious concerns about appropriateness, including building sizes and heights, traffic, views, shadowing and light etc. There are required …

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Costco: Community Consultation Meeting March 30, 2015

Further to the re-zoning application for a Costco warehouse store on Overlea Boulevard the city is now considering a second but related application for re-zoning of public lands on the north side of Thorncliffe Park Drive (adjacent to the Don ravine lands) to provide 124 parking spaces. City Panning staff are considering the application (neither of …

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LPOA Annual General Meeting 2014

Our annual meeting was held on November 25, 2014. Featured speaker was Councillor-elect Jon Burnside. Planner Douglas O’Bright gave a presentation which sums up the ongoing and planned future developments in Leaside. Click to play Leaside’s Planning Challenges. Our local MP, John Carmichael was unable to attend, but sent this letter to the LPOA. Thank you to …

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LPOA Mayoral Debate Notes

Our mayoral debate on October 7 was extraordinarily well-attended; too well-attended in fact. Unfortunately, due to a rather large influx of supporters of one candidate from outside the Leaside area (Scarborough, Etobicoke etc.) who arrived at the debate over an hour before the doors opened, by the time we opened the doors at 7 PM, …

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