Hydro One’s Leaside to Main Infrastructure Refurbishment Project Update

Dear Residents, In January, Hydro One launched a Class Environmental Assessment to refurbish two sections of underground 115 kilovolt transmission cable in the eastern part of downtown Toronto. This infrastructure, shown on the attached map, is a critical component of Ontario’s electricity grid and the supply of power to Toronto Hydro. Since then, we have been busy gathering …

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Sunnybrook Plaza, 660 Eglinton Ave. E. UPDATE

July 26 OMB PHC#4 About 25 community members attended a one day Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) Pre-Hearing Conference (PHC) on July 26th. This session was held to sort out the procedural aspects of which cases would be heard, which can be settled without a hearing, and who would have status to be part of the …

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Yonge St. corridor can’t handle more development

Transit in the Yonge St. corridor is at a crisis point. The Yonge subway line, opened in 1954 to serve a city of just over 1 million people, cannot handle today’s population of more than 2.8 million in Toronto and a further four million in the suburbs. Just how badly the Yonge subway line’s capacity …

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South Bayview 28 Bus Route schedule improvements

Responding to residents’ requests, the TTC has extended the South Bayview 28 bus schedule. New all day every day service New service will be operated from Monday to Friday, and during the evenings on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, so that service is provided all day, every day to Bayview Avenue, south of Davisville Avenue, and …

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660 Eglinton – Updates & Fundraising Campaign

The residents involved with the RioCan redevelopment of Sunnybrook Plaza (660 Eglinton), in partnership with the LPOA, are meeting for a status report about this proposal and to discuss next steps, as there have been several key events and developments over the past 3 weeks. Feel free to join us at 9:30 am this Saturday (June …

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Re: Request for sign by-law amendment from Leaside Community Memorial Gardens

This is to express our strong support for the staff report recommendations refusing the application for 1073 Millwood Road (Leaside Memorial Community Gardens). This LPOA position is further to a Motion that the LPOA support refusing the application, which passed unanimously at the June 2nd meeting of the LPOA Board. The application is for a …

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Leaside Traffic Study: first public meeting

Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 7 p.m.Leaside Memorial Community GardensWilliam Lea Room1073 Millwood Road Set aside the evening of Tuesday, June 21 for an important public consultation meeting focusing on Leaside’s traffic problems. This is the first of several public meetings organized by the LPOA, as we seek long-term solutions and weigh possible measures. Traffic speed and volume are …

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Eglinton Crosstown Future Leaside Station: Open House Meeting

Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6 to 8 p.m.Leaside Memorial Community Gardens1073 Millwood Road Starting in summer 2016, the next phase of construction begins at Leaside Station, and many other Crosstown stations will be under construction before the end of 2016. Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), at the open house to find out: …

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939 Eglinton Ave. E. – Survey results

So…what did we find out? We had a good response rate: 2,169 individual responses were received (once duplicates and out of area responses were removed). The M4G postal code has a total of 3,741 houses and 2,882 apartments (6623 households). Approximately 18% of respondents lived in the same household as another respondent, so it would …

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Eglinton Crosstown Future Laird Station: Open House Meeting

Starting in May 2016, the next phase of construction starts at Laird Station and many other Crosstown stations. Join Metrolinx and its constructor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS) to find out: what construction is happening in your neighbourhood why it needs to happen how it may impact you who to contact if you have questions/concerns when …

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