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Originally Posted by niwell
That's not really true at all, if you are familiar with the plans, consultation sessions, what was submitted to the Province and what was returned. Yonge-Eg is already well above the residential density target and the Province is killing provisions for employment, for instance. All of those single family homes are still preserved and they just want to throw more tall towers (without consideration for design, that was cut) into an increasingly overburdened area.
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A lot of the stuff in the Yonge Eglinton Secondary plan sounded great on paper and looked at in isolation, the problem was that when they were all combined they resulted in almost 0 residential density permissions. The plan would essentially have strangled development as once you get all the required setbacks, tower separation distances, integration of heritage, mid block connections, minimum landscape provisions (45% of the site!), and all that, you are looking at an acre of land that has a few thousand square feet to put a building on.
Combo that with the last minute council amendments that cut most of the height limits essentially in half (well below what has been getting approved), and you get a Yonge-Eglinton that would have been an extremely difficult place to develop. Right on top of the largest public transit investment in the province in a generation.... It just didn't make sense.
The downtown plan had a lot less issues. The no net new shadow on parks, minimum 25% mixed use requirements, and no new residential in the financial core was overly restrictive and should have been tossed, but most of it was solid policy. It's a good thing those are gone if you ask me, but it's a shame the parks and community facility sections got gutted as well.