(formerly Leaside Property-Owners' Association)
Almost three years ago, City Council hired consultants to study and re-draw the city’s 44 municipal boundaries. Some wards have over 90,000 residents, while others have as few as 47,000. Our ward, Ward 26, is somewhere in the middle with just over 60,000. The consultants submitted their report in mid-August last year, offering five design …
The LPOA has received the following good news from CORRA. We ARE being listened to. The LPOA submitted a letter in support of this initiative to amend the mid-rise buildings standards, and we will continue to be involved in the amendment process going forward. To All Resident and Ratepayer Executives, Delegates and Interested Groups: It’s never …
City Council will shortly be considering major changes to ward boundaries throughout the city, in an effort to equalize ward sizes by population. These changes would have major implications for the future of Leaside as one community. LEASIDE COULD BE SPLIT APART: four of the five options would divide Leaside into two parts, separating North …
This could have been very bad news: on reading the agenda for the June 10 City Council meeting, my LPOA Co-President Geoff Kettel noted an important motion which would have significantly affected how groups like the LPOA interact with our elected municipal representatives. The motion, “Requirement to Register with the Lobbyist Registrar’s Office”, was proposed …
The Province of Ontario granted the City of Toronto the power to establish a Local Appeal Body (LAB) to hear appeals of Committee of Adjustment decisions (both minor variances and consents). Section 115 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, allows City Council to appoint one appeal body composed of such persons as the City …