Should Toronto have a moratorium on new condos downtown

[miketoronto]

One of my best friends who is also interested in cities, lives in downtown Toronto, and one thing he has been talking about for a while now, is how all the condos are killing what makes downtown Toronto fun.

He is not the first person to voice this opinion. There is a growing number of people who feel that downtown Toronto has gone just a tad too far in the condo direction and that things need to cool down with the condo market.

The large large influx of residents are putting a damper on nighttime activity, eating up very important employment lands(for future office development), and sanitizing the downtown and removing the very places and in some places the grittiness that made the place attractive to residents from all around the city.

And most serious of all to some is the large amount of heritage buildings under threat due to condo developers who would love to knock the buildings down or do facadism.

So what are your guys views on condos downtown. Do you think Toronto has gone too far, and that things need to be cooled down on the condo front.

How do you feel about condos destroying vibrant downtown strips like King Street West(there is some talk going around that a condo development might demolish the historic buildings and all those cool restaurants and bars on King West, just west of John Street).

Downtown condo dwellers are suppose to inject life into the city. However the deadest areas of downtown happen to be the places condos are standing on.

Your views.