#TOpoli / #TOCouncil veterans: Does anybody remember who put together the very grassroots council/mayoral debates in 2014? Not City Idol but some overlap between the teams or format?
I need this for Positive Purposes. If anyone recalls, vastly appreciate it.
Back at 9:30 AM tomorrow. Might go in in person, idk, depends how I feel.
I'm somehow both dismayed and relieved that livetooting Council feels soothing, somehow.
The next item is 3838 Bloor St. W., a planned women's shelter in Etobicoke: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.PH30.3
However no one really wants to get into it 15 minutes before Council wraps up for the day, so they are doing quick urgent motions.
Location: 3838 Bloor St. W. Demographic: Women Anticipated capacity: Approximately 60 spaces Estimated opening date: 2028 Service Operator: Street Haven at the Crossroads The City of Toronto has secured 3838 Bloor St. W. for use as a municipal shelter that will provide critical services to help women experiencing homelessness gain stability and work toward permanent [β¦]
Oh no, Cllr Holyday literally has more of a comment than a question (on the Six Points development: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.PH30.2) He is upset about the shadows that the high towers will cast on the "stable residential neighbourhood" nearby.
On one hand, I don't think such objections are always spurious NIMBY shit, and I truly empathize with people who cannot even grow houseplants in their apartments because they don't get enough natural light (having lived in a few such places). On the other hand, this particular case is totally spurious NIMBY shit, also fuck anyone with a lawn
Cllr Morley says the site "could not be more appropriate" and brings hundreds of "desperately needed" affordable units to the area.
It passes 20-1.
"The fact that life can outlast our stupidity, our cruelty, our short-sightedness, our filth, and come back with something beautiful, is extraordinary," says Cllr Dianne Saxe, describing how nature has rebounded in an artificial island literally made of garbage.
Cllr Bravo asks everyone to remember how worse it could have been, hearkening back to Alphabet's "Sidewalk Labs", essentially Google's data surveillance fiefdom, who were successfully shamed out of town.
Cllr Colle: "I don't know what to say except that we're praising Councillor Fletcher too much." lmao
Cllrs Fletcher, Perks, Malik all waxing eloquent on a major waterfront development, many years in the works, including thousands of units of affordable units: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.PH30.1
Ookwemin Minising is now anticipated to deliver homes for approximately 21,000 people (12,000 units) and jobs for approximately 2,900 workers over the next 25 years, through both the updated Precinct Plan as well as private development sites. This includes approximately 10,000 units on public lands, with a target of 30 percent of units on public lands as new affordable rental housing. It represents an approximate 27 percent increase in gross floor area (GFA) on public lands compared to the 2024 approvals. It also delivers an estimated additional 300-800 affordable housing units compared to what was presented to Council in the 2024 plan, with the prior range of approximately 2,200 to 2,700 units replaced by up to 3,000 units.
πΆ Procedural confusion πΆ
Man, if I called 311 every time there was a nauseating stench in Parkdaleβ¦
Current item: Cllr Fletcher is upset that recently there was a "dreadful odour that was emanating from the [Ashbridges Bay sewage treatment] plant" and residents did not have a good venue to complain. https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.IE29.9
Leah Bobet
Neville Park