Toronto Renters Forum
Common Tenant Problems => Renovictions => Topic started by: romank on April 02, 2023, 06:35:04 pm
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Here's the background application behind this weekend's (April 1-2, 2023) protests around St. Mary's Street which is SW of Bloor and Yonge in downtown Toronto. It's a twenty page PDF file.
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-171277.pdf (https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-171277.pdf)
(https://25problems.com/images/stmary-blooryonge.jpg)
Did you know that you can infer movement and animation out of some of this data - the city and developers supply CAD files in a format that can be read on-line by Trimble's SketchUp program.
(https://25problems.com/video/3d-modelling.gif)
Note that I'm a newcomer to the game... I may sound like I know what I'm talking about but it took me five weeks to even begin to get a handle on the the document set for the application (by Osmington Gerofsky Development Corp.) to build a 50 storey skyscraper condominium on the lot where I live - which is literally across the street from the Science Centre.
I spoke with the one of the chief planners a week ago, at a meeting organized by the local councillor. He (the planner) agreed that the A.I.C. (https://25problems.com/app.php/aic) (a set of web pages related to the documentation set around development proposals) needed work.
Modelling or not, the closest condominium buildings operate as a sort of semi-gated community. The notion of opening up an entire city block to "bike" and pedestrian paths (how do those two mix exactly?) a few hundred yards from the C.P.R. (https://25problems.com/app.php) seems ill advised.