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A proposed development at 589 Eglinton Avenue East has secured approval from the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) for its settlement offer with the City of Toronto from March, 2024. The approved plan increases the height from 35 to 40 storeys and the number of residential units from 442 to 470.

Initially submitted as a 35-storey proposal in November, 2022, the application faced delays prompting an appeal to the OLT. It was resubmitted with the same storey count but a revised design in July, 2023 This culminated in a hearing in March, 2024, where a settlement offer was approved. The OLT’s endorsement led to the latest Site Plan Approval resubmission in July, 2024.

A group of residents in a midtown Toronto neighbourhood is vowing to take their fight against a developer to the city’s ombudsman.

The Leaside Residents Association and the Broadway Area Residents Association had been working with city staff and the Gupta Group on a proposed residential tower to be built over a row of five lots on Bayview Avenue just north of the new Leaside stop on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT route.

But in June, about three months after a deal had been struck with Gupta for a 22-storey tower, the developer went to the city’s committee of adjustment and applied for a “minor variance” that would add five storeys to the project. The committee agreed to let Gupta add three more, for a total height of 25 storeys.

The Leaside Garden Society invites you to our community Flower Show on:

Saturday September 14, 2024 from 12:30-3:30pm
Leaside Library – 165 McRae Drive

We are opening up entries into the Fruit and Vegetable categories to the whole community even if you are not a member of LGS! Enter tomatoes, fruits, vegetables or flowering perennials. Entry drop off 9:30-10:30 a.m.

A by-election will be held to fill the Ward 15 council seat left vacant by the death of Councillor Jaye Robinson.

• Nominations will open Monday, July 22 at 8:30 a.m.
• Nominations will close Thursday, September 19 at 2 p.m.
• Advance voting will be available on Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Election day will be held on Monday, November 4 with voting locations open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

This is to indicate our support for the staff report and the recommendation for City Council to adopt Official Plan Amendment 680 which amends various Employment Area related policies to bring the Official Plan into alignment with the provincial definition of “area of employment” in the Planning Act, as amended by Bill 97 – Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act.

The Leaside Business Park is the employment area closest to Toronto’s downtown and it is in Toronto’s best interests to preserve the employment area policies, and the businesses and jobs that these maintain. 

We’re going to rally until the Ontario Government hears us!

Rally will conclude with a peaceful march to the Ontario Science Centre for supporters interested in joining us.

Date: Sunday July 14, 2024, noon – 2:30 p.m.

The Ford government’s decision to shutter the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto’s Don Mills area with no warning Friday is drawing outrage from critics and members of the local community.

The government cited safety concerns after releasing an engineering report on the current structure which opened to the public in 1969. The government used the report to justify closing the Science Centre immediately.

“We were worried this stunt would be pulled by Premier Ford and the Ontario government,” said Jason Ash, co-chair of Save Ontario’s Science Centre, a citizen group campaigning to keep the current site.

City Council recently approved the zoning bylaw amendment (subject to some conditions) and the Ontario Land Tribunal gave an interim decision on the developer’s appeal, for a 35-storey tower over the Leaside station with a podium extending south on the two adjoining properties.

35 storeys? How did we get there?