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  • to-post-1-feb-7
    WORKFORCE HOUSING
    February 16, 2020, Comments Off

    In an effort to address the affordable housing crisis facing Toronto, the Toronto Region Board of Trade and WoodGreen Community Services are proposing that employers invest in providing new housing ...

  • Waterfront Parks Strategy_053119.indd
    BRIDGING THE GAPS
    February 16, 2020, Comments Off

    The City of Mississauga unveiled its updated waterfront parks strategy in late January, putting in place a blueprint to guide development over the next quarter century towards a more accessible ...

  • gta-post-1-feb-5
    MARKHAM GATEWAY
    February 16, 2020, Comments Off

    The City of Markham is looking to transform the area along Highway 7 into a gateway area for the Rouge National Urban Park and the planned Cornell Centre community. At ...

  • gta-post-2-jan-29-2020
    UNLIKELY DEVELOPMENT
    January 29, 2020, Comments Off

    A unique redevelopment of a former hospital in Peterborough is providing much-needed residential use to the neighbourhood and could provide a model for adaptive reuse of similar sites in larger municipalities ...

  • gta-post-1-jan-29-2020
    EMPLOYMENT LANDS CATCH-UP
    January 29, 2020, Comments Off

    Struggling to attract commercial-industrial development to its designated employment areas, the Town of Whitby is exploring ways to expand the availability and size of serviced employment lands. In a report ...

  • Ravine Strategy Implementation
    COLLABORATIVE STEWARDSHIP
    January 24, 2020, Comments Off

    City of Toronto’s executive committee greenlit the city’s comprehensive Ravine Implementation Strategy yesterday, setting it up for consideration at city council January 29-30. The strategy seeks significant funding from the ...

  • gta-post-jan-22-2020
    OUT OF PHASE APPROVALS
    January 22, 2020, Comments Off

    Three developments in Milton are advancing ahead of an area phasing schedule to ensure a large, predominantly residential community is built out quickly and that development can support planned community ...

  • to-post-jan-17-2020
    GUIDING GROWTH
    January 22, 2020, Comments Off

    City planning is looking to protect the planning vision for the area around Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue in the face of intense development pressure. At its meeting January ...

  • gta-post-1-jan-8
    OP DESIGNATION OVERTURNED
    January 8, 2020, Comments Off

    A planning designation that would have allowed for a provincially significant wetland and woodland on the shore of Lake Simcoe to be transformed into a residential development has been overturned ...

  • to-post-1-jan-3-2020
    TORONTO YEAR IN REVIEW
    January 5, 2020, Comments Off

    2019 was a year of significant dispute in Toronto as development proponents, industry members, planning experts, community advocates, and municipal and provincial politicians held competing visions of how to address ...