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In an almost “too perfect” example of City Hall public communications failures — the ONLY visible signage announcing that the Parking Lot is CLOSING on Monday, November 18th are tiny little 8 x 10 signs that are stuck to things… City needs to have GIANT billboard-sized signs at the...

Today may be one of my FINAL multi-modal visits to this “big dumb parking lot” before it closes forever in 3-weeks…

...at least they managed to finish the GIANT underground parking-lot before they ran out of cash, so I think the City of Toronto's "broad public policy goals" have already been achieved on this site... ;)

...and that's kind of WHY it failed. Ratio was far too much "retention & decoration" for way too little "saleable housing"... Distressed Asset "Sizzle-Reel" video - https://f.tlcollect.com/fr2/624/95783/260_High_Park_Toronto_Video.mp4

Yeah, I deputed in support of the +60% increase in the "affordable rental unit years" (ie. 25 years -> 40 years), and encouraged CHOICE to work with the Unifor and UFCW Pension Funds to create some additional "workforce housing" apatrtments for grocery-store employees within the building. It...

This is not just the CITY, it is a tax-trigger that happens at all three (3) levels of government -- as they consider the delivery of the "Condo Units in a Block" to an not-for-profit affordable housing owner / operator to be a "Purchase of Multiple Units" -- just like any other one-by-one Condo...

Our HNTO letter of support is below -- along with our concerns about the way that these deals are being interpreted from a land-transfer tax and HST perspective at the moment... PDF - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/te/comm/communicationfile-184030.pdf

Some images & stats from the MADISON submission to TEYCC today - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/te/comm/communicationfile-183948.pdf Building 1 - Building 2 - Affordable Housing stats -

APPROVED..! Passed unanimously at CoA today. ✅ About 5 or 6 neighbouring home-owners and relatives showed-up to complain (mostly about parking & overlook). Former Mayoral-Candidate Chloe Brown showed-up to speak in support, and Mark Richardson from HousingNowTO spoke in support via WebEx. CoA...

It was a Radiothon-Telethon fundraiser event... https://magellancommunityfoundation.com/event/radiothon-telethon/

We only get one chance to "do it right" -- and a single-use Library only project on that parcel of land is not likely to proceed under the current Mayor's watch.

Rent-Geared-to-Income "RGI" is always the SOCIAL HOUSING in the City Reports, average RGI rents (2023) are below $500 / Month, hence the huge waiting-lists. "Workforce Housing" is AFFORDABLE HOUSING in the City Reports, at rents and incomes equivalent to the current (2024) "Housing Lottery"...

Is the unit-split of the TCHC / Social Housing, Affordable Rental & Market-Rate across these ~819 units doesn't appear to be broken-out, but here is the mix across both PHASE 4 & 5... "While the number of Replacement Social Housing Units and new Affordable Rental Units remains unchanged with...

Some late-afternoon photos from earlier today… Last days of the “bunker”.

Attended the ground-breaking today with some of our recent students from TMU SURP and U of T School of Cities...

"The development proposal for the subject site proposes that 3% of all new residential gross floor area will be secured as affordable housing for a minimum affordability period of 40 years. The affordable housing units will be provided at a similar pace as the market units have a unit mix that...

Yup, our Letter of Support was added to AIC already -- and I have sent in a request to speak at the CoA.

Will be interesting to see if any of the current By-Election candidates post anything to their Campaign channels about this "Yellow-Belt to Tower" proposal...

Which is funny because CreateTO was sharing them a "new" less than a week ago...

Affordable Housing Terms of Reference as attached to the Staff Report -