This column sometimes spends time bemoaning that perfectly good Leaside houses are being torn down to build homes often much higher and larger, that don’t fit the street. But there are lots of people in …more
Last month I attended home and school meetings at both Northlea and Bessborough schools. At the top of both agendas was student safety as it relates to traffic. Of course, the volume of traffic was …more
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 …more
With Metrolinx’s station construction at Bayview and Eglinton Aves. and the corresponding lane reductions, more and more drivers are looking for alternate routes. Unfortunately, one of those is Parkhurst Blvd. Although traffic levels on Parkhurst …more
Even if your Leaside bungalow is a tear-down, it’s still worth more than a million bucks if you have a 30-foot frontage. A South Leaside bungalow with a 30-foot frontage recently sold for over $1.3 …more
Early February, snow coming down up above on Eglinton, but 18 metres undergound the LRT construction site was warm enough for workers to be in T-shirts. Four Leasiders were able to view the site and …more
RioCan has advised the Ontario Municipal Board that it has changed its application to build 19- and 13-storey towers with a linking podium at Sunnybrook Plaza. It is now proposing 12 storeys instead of 13 …more
We won! Actually, Leaside won. The OMB member in his decision dated Jan. 26 about 151 Airdrie decided “that the appeal is dismissed and the variances are not authorized”. This is a satisfactory conclusion for …more
Ward Councillor Jon Burnside and the LPOA are conducing a survey of Leaside residents about intensification and the proposal for 939 Eglinton Ave. E. at Brentcliffe. A paper survey is included with the printed newspaper for …more
“Development” has become a four-letter word in Leaside. All too often, the planning process proceeds in its official way without enough feedback from neighbourhood residents. A single city-held public consultation meeting is hardly sufficient to …more
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