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‘In all candour, if we don’t have this application, we’ll have some other retail application’: Councillor John Parker
GEOFF DAVIES
ABOUT 250 LEASIDERS filled the William Lea room when Councillor John Parker hosted a public meeting about the proposed SmartCentre North development at Laird and Wicksteed.
Hostile crowd at SmartCentre meeting By GEOFF DAVIES SmartCentre North or not, another mall on Laird at Wicksteed is likely inevitable, Don Valley West Councillor John Parker told a hostile crowd on March 29 when he hosted a public meeting on the proposed development. About 250 people filled the William Lea Room of the Leaside arena to hear how the 147,000 square-foot shopping mall would affect their community. By the end of the meeting it was the clear the question wasn’t “if” a new mall would go in between Wicksteed and Vanderhoof, but “how” and “when”. “In all candour, if we don’t have this application, we’ll have some other retail application,” said Parker. “The likelihood of something other than retail is slim.”
For the zoning amendment requested by SmartCentre to be approved at an upcoming meeting of the North York Community Council – a group of 11 councillors, with Parker serving as vice-chair – SmartCentre must show that a new mall won’t negatively impact traffic and other businesses in nearby neighbourhoods. The verdict of the SmartCentre-commissioned consultants: double thumbs up. A 458-page traffic impact study, by Sernas Transtech, predicts the biggest traffic surge will be on Laird, with afternoon peak hours seeing volume increases between about 4 and 9 percent. That could mean as many as 100 additional vehicles in the northbound lane between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m., SMARTCENTRE, Page 2
AWESOME! and nearing a half million dollars By BETH PARKER The lineup of people wrapped around the block waiting to get inside the church at Millwood and McRae is an unusual sight. And when the doors open, there’s a stampede to see who can get in the fastest.
Most Leasiders know the scene at the Spring Awesome Sale at Leaside United. But this year’s sale, May 11-12, will be a watershed: the event that once was a humble rummage sale is expected to reach the half million dollar mark in total funds raised since it began. “We’re $25,000 away from the
goal,” says George Hurst, who manages the event with fellow volunteer and church-member Bob Lister, “and considering we average over $35,000 or more between the spring and fall sale, we’re petty sure we’ll reach our goal this May.” AWESOME, Page 3
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according to calculations based on 2009 data from a city traffic safety unit document. George Horning, of Sernas Transtech, said Millwood and McRae could see volume at that hour jump by 3.2 and 3.4 per cent respectively. He predicted a 1.3 per cent bump for both Parkhurst and Vanderhoof. “Most residents won’t notice a difference,� he said. “Try living here, brother,� came a snarl from the back of the room. Another man burst out: “That’s a 3.9 per cent increase of our children that get hit. That’s disgusting.� Doug Annand, of urbanMetrics, said the proposed development “will not create negative impacts on existing retail areas,� singling out Bayview and Eglinton Aves. The study – the third or fourth, he said – that the consultants have done in the area, looked at 10 nearby business areas, including Millwood and as far as Flemingdon, Thorncliffe and Don Mills. Since several industrial businesses, like many others in the city, left the area and their lots empty, and
the return of manufacturing and industrial firms is unlikely, the Wicksteed site is ideal for retail development, said Annand. The proposed mall is “filling out [a hole between] the existing retail conglomerates that exist in the area,� he said, pointing out nearby neighbours are also large malls, with industrial land to the east. As well as helping to counter a multi-million dollar outflow of shopping activity from the neighbourhood, he added, the new mall could create between 300 and 400 jobs, before considering construction-related employment, and would also bring in $1.8-million in fees to the city, as well as property and school taxes. The North York Community Council must also find that the development doesn’t stray too far from the land’s intended purpose as an “employment area,� with uses like restaurants, small businesses, “as well as offices, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, [and] research and development facilities,� as described in the city’s December 2011 staff report on the zoning application. Other issues to be resolved include whether the planned parking capacity is adequate, how the “safety and attractiveness� of adjaSMARTCENTRE, Page 4
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GEORGE HURST and some of his ‘rag pickers’. from teenagers to seniors in their 90s are involved in setting up, cleaning up and sorting through donations. Affectionately known as the “rag pickers,” a group of mostly women carefully sort (and discard) items throughout the year that arrive at the church almost daily. “It’s a great way for folks to find good items for their cottage or student apartments,” says Hurst. He should know. For the past couple of years, part of his massive volunteer duties for the event has been to inspect furniture donations ahead of time prior to pick up. “We learned early on what sells and what you can get stuck with,” he explains, “And because we do pick up, we’re more careful what we take.” Hurst often has the difficult job of
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telling folks that their “wonderful couch” just isn’t what it used to be. Lister, who joined Hurst working on the event, first as “clean up crew,” says people will come to the sale to help a family in need, or even set up a new refugee family. “People travel from across the city to attend,” says Lister, “and many of our volunteers aren’t church members but they all come to help.” “It’s a lot of hard work,” he adds with his usual smile, “but many hands make light work — it’s inspiring as well as perspiring.” Part of Lister’s duties are picking up furniture with the church custodian, Brian Sheepwash, using a trailer they now own just for the purpose.
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“The money, no doubt is important,” adds Hurst, noting that apart from supporting overall church operations, 25 percent is given to outreach. “But the sale does so much more—it diverts hundreds of items from landfill sites, brings people together and provides donations to other local causes.” Hurst was asked to take over the church’s rummage sale in 1996 after he retired as an accountant. At that time, the event lasted about four hours and raised about $2,500. Once Hurst convinced them to make the sale bigger and to add furniture, it was renamed Awesome. Today, the Awesome Sale takes place over two days, with 80 volunteers a day just to manage sales. It boasts over 13 different departments including toys, books, jewellery, clothes, linens, housewares and furniture and takes over every room in the building except the sanctuary and office. Besides those who donate their time to sell, dozens of volunteers
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cent streets will be impacted, and how safe pedestrian use can be promoted. Question Period held as many comments as queries, and few fresh answers. Neighbours jockeyed for position while Parker lined up a queue of eight residents, but saw five more hands shoot up before he could get going. The air had smacked of indignation from the meeting’s start, and by now the tut-tuts had reached a boil. Most of the issues raised revolved around the impact the mall could have on neighbourhood traffic, with repeated calls to see the traffic impact study, which was not available at the meeting. Few voices were raised to protest construction itself. One resident called the lot “a blight on the community”. Most of the anger was focused on the traffic implications. Steve Forrester, a senior planner with the city, said one of the safety measures being considered is a traffic median on Laird. Parker was quick to point out his efforts to install similar measures on Moore and near the future Leaside Village mall at 85 Laird. “If I can have a median there, I want a median there,” he said. “…I’m the guy who puts medians on streets where I can.” ■
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“Brian and I carry the couch,” he says with a laugh. “George carries the cushions.” Apart from the obvious fellowship among the volunteers, the stories each year from the sale keep everyone in good spirits. There’s the expected haggling over a $2 item, and the occasional upset customer who loses an item to someone willing to pay more to support the cause. Volunteers also watch for known thieves, the most notable being an elderly couple in their 90s who drive an expensive car, sneak in unnoticed, and attempt to steal collectibles and valuable jewellery. “We now have a volunteer follow them about,” Hurst says. All items left over, except for a few selected pieces, are donated to Oasis so that each year there’s a new selection. And because of space limitations, furniture can be sold at any time during the year. ■
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Birthday skate By BETH PARKER “Just imagine the logistics!” says Kathy Mackenzie, club administrator, who’s been part of the planning for the massive volunteer effort over the past few months for the Everything Diamonds Ice Carnival held at Leaside Gardens April 13-14. Three hundred skaters in costumes, ages 4 to adults, packed into four dressing rooms at the arena preparing for 33 numbers. This year’s carnival was held in recognition of Leaside Skating Club’s 60th anniversary—“a Diamond Jubilee that we share with the Queen of England,” says Mackenzie. LSC hasn’t held a carnival in 10 years—the last to celebrate 50 years. This year’s event will direct all profits toward building the second ice pad at Leaside Gardens. Fresh from representing Canada at the World Figure Skating Championships in France, Every Diamonds featured ice dancing pair Asher Hill and Kharis Ralf. The pair won the Canadian Junior Ice Dance Champions in 2008 and placed 4th at this year’s Canadian Senior Ice Dance Championships. Also appearing in the show was professional skater Nicholas Bran who debuted his latest creation of The Steel Lady. ■
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The usual case made for preservation of heritage buildings is, “If it is not preserved, it’s gone for ever.” To me that is pretty compelling. However there are other arguments as well. Heritage preservation is not only about saving old (and sometimes not so old) buildings, rather it is about maintaining a unique quality of place, about enhancing the quality of life, and about supporting the cultural and economic vitality that accompanies areas with high conservation values. I think Leaside has some of those qualities. The only thing missing right now seems to be the will to do something about it. Leaside was a “model town,” planned in complete detail before a single building was erected. Its 1912 street and lot plan was the work of landscape architect Frederick Todd, who designed Mount Royal in Montreal. When development got going in the 1930s and ‘40s Georgian and Tudor revival styles were favoured by its developers, of whom the most well known is Henry Howard Talbot,
our home town developer-mayor. People sometimes under-estimate Leaside’s architectural value and uniqueness. At the Ontario Municipal Board hearing for the Talbot apartments on Bayview in 2010, the developer’s expert witness claimed that their Georgian revival “garden apartments” style was “common” and not worth saving. The chair challenged the witness to bring evidence of this. The evidence of Chris Borgal, our heritage architect, was that there were no similar apartments in the Toronto area, and that in fact you had to go to a suburb of Washington, DC to find comparable architecture. The OMB chair accepted his evidence. But having design or architectural value are not the only reasons for considering a building, structure or site to be important. Other values are that they may relate to a significant person, an important event in the history of the city, or a critical time in the development of one of its neighbourhoods. And it may be well crafted or represent a characteristic of the community.
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We’ll visit five churches By GEOFF KETTEL Jane’s Walk, named after Jane Jacobs, urban hero and author of The Life and Death of Great American Cities, has become an instant tradition in Toronto with over 150 walks now in place on the first weekend in May. Leaside has its own Jane’s Walk on Sunday, May 6. This year it will
focus on Places of Worship. Leaside has seven such places, all actively engaged in mission and service. We will visit five churches from four Christian denominations beginning at 1:30 p.m. Places of worship are celebrated and respected as spiritual centres, but they also serve as community service centres, and often as enduring landmarks. We will learn about the cultural heritage values and also the changing spiritual values, and how the changes affect and are affected by the ongoing life of the community. This is the third Jane’s Walk in Leaside. In 2010 it focused on the residential area, and last year, on the Bayview commercial strip. If you want to know about other Jane’s Walks happening on May 5 and May 6 try: http://www.janeswalk.net/. TIME: Sunday, May 6, 1.30-4 p.m. START: St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, 1847 Bayview, at Broadway, two blocks north of Eglinton. END: St. Cuthbert’s Church, 1399 Bayview, at St. Cuthbert’s Rd. ■
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The Ontario Heritage Act requires only one of these criteria to be present, not all three. In Leaside today there are several protected properties, but except for the Talbot apartments on Bayview, they are nearly all from the estates of the late 19th century, such as 262 Bessborough (the Elgie House). The Talbot apartments were designated under the Ontario Heritage Act only after there was a major threat of demolition to them. And it took a massive community wide effort (lead by the Leaside Property Owners’ Association) to preserve them. Leaside‘s Georgian and Tudor revival houses on streets like Parkhurst, Sutherland, Rumsey, Bessborough and Airdrie are under slow incremental attack from developers “from away� with no respect for the context or the history of the area. It is time to learn about our built heritage and take action! And Leaside’s Centennial year is an opportune time to talk about it. ■This is the first in a series of articles about Leaside heritage.
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For our fourth category excerpted from the Environics Analytics study of Leaside, we get to the rich. These 2006 figures from Statistics Canada show the cluster Cosmopolitan Elite accounted for 8.32 percent of households in Leaside (not including Bennington Heights). That compares to 1.33 percent in greater Toronto and only 0.35 in all of Canada. Canada’s wealthiest lifestyle, Cosmopolitan Elite is a urban oasis for both new-money entrepreneurs and the heirs to old-money fortunes. With household incomes five time the national average, this segment remains concentrated in a handful of established neighbourhoods – like Montreal’s Westmount, Toronto’s Forest Hill, Calgary’s Mount Royal and West Vancouver. Here, super-rich, middle-aged families and older couples live in million-dollar homes, drive luxury imports and support the arts, frequenting the opera, ballet, symphony and theatre. They’re fitness-minded Canadians who belong to health clubs, work out at home and enjoy Pilates, yoga and cross-country skiing. Active in the community, they
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Apologies Leaside Life, May 2012
Last month one of our Environics Analytics articles appeared to indicate that having a lower percentage of visible minority residents than greater Toronto was an advantage for Leaside. That was unintended. The list of different percentages was originally part of the end of the article that introduced “Some interesting figures:”. For graphic reasons the list was put into a box and none of us involved realized the last item was the only one that had a lower percentage for Leaside. We apologize for that inadvertent implication. We also seem to have disturbed some readers with our “notorious wasteland” comments and what was perceived as a “cocky” attitude. They didn’t realize the article was written with tongue in cheek. And we goofed badly in the article about the Leaside tree canopy of our streets. The article said trees release carbon into the air. We all had our dunce caps on. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the air. ■
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Streets of Bennington Heights, Giant Neighbourhood Sale, (Bayview Ave. and Moore Ave.), Sat. May 26, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., rain date Sun. May 27. Diti Dumas, 416-489-2121. Royal LePage Bayview, National Garage Sale for Shelter, Sat. May 12, 8-2, 1391 Bayview at McRae, in support of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. Donations accepted, 416-424-4900. Leaside Garden Society, Sat. May 12, annual plant sale, Trace Manes Community Centre, Millwood and McRae. A supplier provides plants and members donate from their gardens. A master gardener is available to answer questions. 9 a.m. to noon. Thurs. May 10, presentation with Frank Kershaw, 7:30 p.m.,Leaside Library, 165 McRae. Kershaw is director of planning and research with Toronto's Culture and Tourism Department, which manages 8,000 hectares of parkland and natural areas. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Wildflower Society. 7 p.m. refreshments and social time. Leaside Library, May programs, 165 McRae Dr., 416-396-3835 Ready for Reading Pyjama Time, Tuesdays May 15June 19, 7–7:30 p.m., 5 years and under, bedtime stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children with their parents or caregivers. Drop in. No registration required. Leaside Book Discussion Group, Thur. May 31, 7-8 p.m., book to be announced. No registration required. Everyone welcome. Leaside Games Night, Wed. May 23, 6-8 p.m., board games provided, donations appreciated. All welcome. MAP Family Sat. May 12, Bata Shoe Museum at the library, 10-11 a.m., for children 5-12 and caregivers. Drop in. Heritage Ontario, Tuesdays, May 1–June 12, 2-4 p.m. Lectures, music or media presentations about the history of Toronto and Ontario. $5 per session. Ebook workshop, Sat., May 26, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Register in person or call 416-396-3840. Spring Book Sale, Sat., May 5, 10 a.m - 4 p.m. Altered Books, Sat., May 5, 2– 4 p.m. Creativity in creating recycled art. Drop in. North Leaside Women’s Group, Tuesdays 9:30 a.m., Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. May 1, How To Buy A Car, Jim Davidson of CarSmart. May 8, Zen Beginnings, Marina Zelenovic. May 15, Leaside Public Library. May 22, planning session for fall 2012. May 29, Great Summer Reads, Ben McNally. See website for fees and babysitting information. www.northleasidewomensgroup.com/. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, Thur. May 10, 1:30-3 p.m., 1847 Bayview, Alzheimer’s Daily Living Tips, strategies for day-to-day care while promoting dignity and independence. Thurs. May 24, 1:30-3 p.m., Understanding Parkinson’s, signs and symptoms, statistic and research. Light refreshments served. Suzanne Parsons, 416-627-6680 or suzanneparsons5@gmail.com/. Affordable art sale, 31Sharron Dr., Sat.-Sun. May 11-5.
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The past month has seen two important public events for Leasiders: On March 29, an official public meeting was held by the city to present plans for SmartCentre North, proposed for Laird/Wicksteed. About 250 attendees were vocal in their opposition. Never let it be said that Leasiders, once roused to anger, are easily deflected! They questioned the developer’s traffic statistics. No information was presented about resultant increased traffic on heavily trafficked streets such as Southvale, Bessborough, Broadway and Glenvale. Given that the admitted catchment area stretches from the Lakeshore to the 401, and a similar distance east-west, this was a serious omission. The site comprises a total retail space of 147,800 square feet, with a density almost twice that of the average shopping centre, and parking for 479 cars, some of it underground. LPOA previously has found underground parking unsafe and undesirable, and has successfully prevented its introduction. Unfortunately, the developers deem underground parking a key part of this development. Leaside Life readers will recall that the Leaside Property Owners’ Association appeared in opposition to this proposal at North York Community Council: wrong use (the area is zoned for employment, not retail), too large, too dense, too traffic generating, and a threat to the popular and much admired Bayview shopping area. A presentation was made at the meeting by the city’s planner, and several consultants for the developer. Councillor John Parker fielded questions from the floor. There was talk of widening Laird to five lanes from Eglinton to Wicksteed, and extending Parkhurst east of Laird directly into the shopping centre. Residents living directly across from the proposed site, on Parkhurst and Vanderhoof and along McRae, are rightly worried. As we know all too well, more traffic and speed lead to decreased safety and quality of life. Concerns were also expressed about employment-zoned lands
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LETTER leasidelife@gmail.com I was struck by the March, 2012 issue of Leaside Life, in which longtime Bennington Heights resident, and mother or two, Eleni Palantzas was asked what one thing she would choose to do to improve Leaside. She suggested that the community might benefit by having a yearly barbeque where everyone would have a chance to meet their neighbours. Happily, such an event exists! On Sept. 23, the Rotary Club of Leaside will host its 19th annual Rotary Club Corn Roast at Trace Manes Park. The day will feature activities for those of all ages, including craft tables, a silent auction, face-painting, giant slides, and motor scooters, all topped off with delicious hotdogs, corn-on-the-cob and mouth watering desserts, including ice-cream. Thanks to contributions made by community sponsors, admission is free, with proceeds going to worthwhile causes. To find out more, please visit the website at leasiderotary.com. I hope to meet you there, Eleni!
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being eroded by retail, and negative impacts on businesses and industries still in the Leaside Business Park. Retail raises land costs, putting pressure on business and industrial owners to move out. Counter to all past evidence, the consultants assume that current uses aren’t threatened. LPOA has asked Councillor Parker to support traffic measures to protect our streets. Nearby residents are banding together and will coordinate with LPOA to collect our own (accurate!) statistics to counter the developer’s claims, to present when this goes back to NYCC and City Council in the fall. You can get more contact information by contacting the LPOA. Also in March there was an unofficial open house to view renderings of the proposed condominium where the former Leaside post office used to be (Malcolm/Millwood), about which I wrote in my April column. It’s a very attractive building on exactly the wrong site. We will continue to oppose it and to work with the neighbours on Malcolm and Krawchuk Lane for a more acceptable solution. ■
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Post Office fun Are we having fun yet? Well yes, we actually are, but sometimes it’s frustrating – especially dealing with trying to get all the little details right about delivering Leaside Life. Our first issue went out at the end of November. We gave instructions to our distributor to deliver to every house, and he in turn delivered the issue to the post office with the appropriate paper work for them to deliver to apartments, condos and businesses. Canada Post had 3,921 copies to deliver. What we didn’t realize at the time was that addresses requesting “no junk mail” were not included in this count. In the meantime, our distributor has been given the fine points of where there are houses that he might not have had on his delivery routes, such as a little piece of upper Bayview. We have been helped by your calls and emails to try to fix these gaps. Our distributor, from the January issue on, has refined the Canada Post paperwork to include ALL apartments, condos and businesses – an additional 820 addresses for each issue. In the post office regulations, there is a section 1.6.1 which defines Community Newspapers, and we qualify. As such, the regulations say that we are not treated as other unaddressed mail, but as mail equal to Elections Canada and federal, provincial or municipal election materials – and must be delivered to all addresses. Now, you would have thought that the post office officials would know about this regulation. On Feb. 3, we placed a complaint with the post office about non-delivery to a condo building of our February issue. On Feb. 16 we received an email reply which stated, “We wish to inform you that all of the necessary actions in connection with your Canada Post Customer ticket have been completed and the ticket has been closed.” Not very helpful. For the March issue, we went to the Wynford Post Office and talked with a supervisor as soon as we had delivered the papers to them. We told him of our difficulties, specifically with a number of condo buildings. His reply, after doing some research, was that the buildings we were mentioning were those which had requested POST OFFICE, Page 18
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no unaddressed mail, and so our newspaper couldn’t be delivered. When the April issue went to the Post Office, we took a copy of Regulation 1.6.1. to the supervisor we’ve been dealing with. After checking he confirmed that we qualified for distribution to all addresses. The Post Office may or may not have gotten the papers to all buildings, but at least one condo where there had never been delivery received Leaside Life in individual mailboxes. So, for the past five issues, Canada Post had as many as an additional 820 issues each month, most of which were not delivered, and for which we had paid them, following their paperwork. What do you think our chances would be of getting a refund? Glitch free from here on? Who knows? But, if you have a sign on the mailbox at your house that says “no junk mail,” you might consider modifying your sign to say you want to receive a community newspaper. And of course, if you didn’t get this issue of Leaside Life delivered to you directly, and you live in M4G, and you would like to receive it, please let us know at leasidelife@gmail.com/. ■
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Garden Society wins first prize By BETH Bouquets to the Leaside Garden Society for winning first prize at Canada Blooms. Team members Joanna Blanchard, Dianne Caister and Margaret Rousseau artfully created an arrangement using a wheelbarrow as a container with expert advice from Rick Hutchings. Moms to Be and More on Bayview recently became an official corporate sponsor of the Sick Kids Foundation. As a supporter, a percentage of all retail sales from the store on Bayview will go toward the foundation in addition to specific fund raising activities. “Sick Kids is the perfect charity to support,” says Karen Judd, store owner, ”because they touch the lives of our clients, and their families.” A cheering crowded gathered at our local Loblaws store on March 24 for a Guinness Book of record event. Selected as one of 250 participating stores, the goal was to simultaneously
“crack” open the most number of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese wheels. 305 wheels in total were successfully cracked (including three at Leaside). The previous record was 176 set in 2008 in the USA. Dr. Steve Simpson, Bayview Dental Centre, recently returned from Haiti where he’s volunteered since the earthquake at a free dental clinic for those in need in Port au Prince. Simpson decided when he was a student at McGill that he wanted the opportunity to donate his services. He’s now been on Bayview 21 years and every year since he’s travelled to Central or South America to deliver on his promise. Canadian author Kenneth Oppel visited Northlea Public School this April. Kenneth is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature and a Michael L. Printz Honor for Young Adult fiction. Buildings recently demolished on Laird Dr. across Gyro Mazda are making room for a new Gyro Hyundai car dealership and repair shop being built on land formerly owned by DEL equipment. The new dealership is a partnership with the current owner of Gyro Mazda, which has been in the Leaside community for over 40 years. ■
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“I started emailing my personal network and dresses started appearing.” One of the first Leasiders she called was Patrick Rocca of Bosley Real Estate. “The whole idea is fabulous,” he says. He donated money for new 10 prom dresses. And he put a notice in his newsletter asking for clothing donations. Then J.D. Singh of Sleuth of Baker Street offered his store on Millwood Rd. as a drop off spot. New Circles, a not for profit social service agency, provides clothing to young people across the city, but mostly from Marc Garneau Collegiate, Don Mills Collegiate, St Patrick Catholic Secondary School and Danforth Tech. “The largest proportion of teens (in a neighbourhood) in the City of Toronto live in Flemingdon Park,” says Craig. Clothing such as dresses, shoes, jewellery and purses for girls are among the most needed items. Ties, shirts and suits are needed for the young men, says Fraser. ■
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On March 29 the development application by SmartCentres for its vacant property at 70 Wicksteed was the subject of a public meeting that packed the Leaside Gardens William Lea Room. The comments that evening – and in the correspondence that has flooded into my office in the days since – reflect two fundamental concerns relating to this application: Rumours of a particular anchor tenant, and concerns over the possible impact on Leaside's residential streets arising from more retail development on Laird.
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Let me be clear about one thing: We do not know who will choose to rent space at the developed site. What we do know for sure is that the largest building proposed for the project is 80,000 square feet. (It could well turn out to be smaller if we manage the application strategically.) Meanwhile, as far as I know, the smallest store operated by the celebrated retailer from Bentonville, Arkansas, whose name starts with W, is 90,000 square feet. Like most of those who write to me on the matter, I personally do not welcome the advent of more retail development in our community. I certainly do not welcome large scale retail development of a type likely to attract traffic from other areas. That said, matters of land use are governed by legislation and the rules derived therefrom. Specifically, they are governed by the provincial Planning Act and the Official Plan adopted by the City of Toronto in 2002. Here's the key thing to understand: Unlike the various cases of outright public opposition that are typically cited to me, the application concerning 70 Wicksteed relies on the plain wording of the 2002 Official Plan and the established interpretations of its meaning. It also relies on a ship that pretty much weighed anchor and set sail in the waning days of the Borough of East York. Shortly before municipal amalgamation East York granted an amendment to its Official Plan to allow construction of the existing Home Depot SmartCentre at Laird and Wicksteed. It also permitted construction of the Canadian Tire shopping centre at Laird and Eglinton.
Those two developments set the stage for the eventual retail conversion of the Wicksteed property sandwiched between them. The last clear defence against such a conversion was given up when the amalgamated City Council adopted the 2002 Official Plan which provided for properties answering the description of 70 Wicksteed ("Employment Areas fronting onto major streets…that also form the boundary of the Employment Area") to be rezoned for retail development. What's more, the 2002 Official Plan not only accommodates retail development on such properties, it specifically accommodates "Power Centres" – which is to say, large scale retail operations. The Official Plan sets out tests to be applied in situations of this nature. These tests speak to (a) availability of sufficient transportation capacity to accommodate the extra traffic generated by the development, and (b) the functioning of other economic activities in the Employment Areas and the economic health of nearby shopping districts. I have told the developer that I intend to have the applicable tests applied with full vigour. I have also told the developer that I will submit all test data provided by it to full and independent review to ensure reliability. And I will submit the entire proposal to the city's Design Review Panel, which I discussed in general terms at the March meeting. I have also told the developer that I intend to invite Leaside's residents to participate in the scrutiny of this application. To learn how you can become involved drop me a note at councillor_parker@toronto.ca with your name, mailing address, daytime phone number, and a few words setting out the nature of any concerns you have regarding this application. ■
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