TEMPORARY-PERMANENT WORKS
We are entering a protracted era of street and sidewalk footpath disruptions of such epic length that temporary protective measures and installations will acquire a sense of temporary-permanence. The pattern of temporary measures will, over time, shift responding to development start-ups and completions.
NEW HOUSES ARE TO FIT, RESPECT AND
REINFORCE THE EXISTING NEIGHBOURHHOOD
The
protection of Residential Neighbourhoods is a fundamental intention
of Toronto's planning. These areas are not intended to be
intensification targets. Furthermore, the term 'intensification' is
not a measure of house size but rather refers to population increase.
Hence, a larger replacement house is not intensification. It is
simply super-sizing unrelated to intensification.
GROWTH CENTRE TOWERS FORECASTpdf
The Towers Forecast quantifiably models the extent of future growth following the current trends of build-as-usual practices.
The Towers Forecast's projection permits an urban audit to be undertaken... assessing the sustainability, desirability, infrastructures, demographics, built form and public realm considerations of future development.
Such an audit is required by Provincial Policy, Toronto's Official Plan, and City Planning's proposed Development Permit System.
I have a general concern about planning and growth management for the Yonge Eglinton Growth Centre (YEGC) with regard to the exercise of Good Planning, Best Practice and Area Visioning.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE YONGE EGLINTON GROWTH CENTRE
City Planning has recently written a prescription for Good Planning, which appears in its recently proposed area-planning tool, the Development Permit System.
One wonders why this prescription for Good Planning is not current practice within the Yonge Eglinton Growth Centre, where an extraordinary growth spiral is underway – without the benefit of a comprehensive planning framework.
Furthermore, it begs the question...
If good area-planning is not being practiced here where the need is obvious, then, can City Planning be relied upon to deliver its good area-planning prescription, either here or anywhere?
Conclusion: Whether Yonge Eglinton's planning is improved by amending the existing Secondary Plan, or by undertaking a specific Development Permit System solution-exercise, or any other process... It is imperative to see Good Planning and development management is exercised, and in particular: commensurate with the degree of intensification.
