301 Rockcliffe Blvd

[Northern Light]

As per the lobbyist registry, Cesar Palacio has been retained to lobby for permission to redevelop this site.

Details for Subject Matter Registration: SM32200​

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301 Rockcliffe Boulevard -A Municipal Comprehensive Review Application for the subject Development site has been filed to convert the employment land to Mid-rise Residential, Employment and Retail mix-uses. the site is subject to TRCA regulations.

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This site is currently employment land, and is entirely within the current regulatory floodplain.

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The flooding issue should be mitigated by work just getting underway by the TRCA, for which we have a thread, here:

Black Creek at Rockcliffe Special Policy Area Flood Remediation and Transporation Feasibility Study

The above study is has a set of recommendations which will greatly impact this area: All of Black Creek in the section in the photo below, from Alliance in the North/East to Jane in the west will be naturalized, widened and deepened. This is roughly 1km of channel that will be naturalized, a...

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Were this to be approved, I assume it would set off a cascade on similar properties nearby.

 

[AlbertC]

A bit curious of what's being planned here. The property is currently an under-utilized piece of land, with a neighbouring garden centre and construction materials place on the interior of the block. The property is also separated by green space and a hydro corridor between more traditional low-rise residential areas to the north and south. The closest notable intersection would be St. Clair West & Runnymede, a few blocks south.

 

[Northern Light]

A bit curious of what's being planned here. The property is currently an under-utilized piece of land, with a neighbouring garden centre and construction materials place on the interior of the block. The property is also separated by green space and a hydro corridor between more traditional low-rise residential areas to the north and south. The closest notable intersection would be St. Clair West & Runnymede, a few blocks south.

Also has creeks on both sides of it, more or less. Black Creek (then a road, then this site), then Lavender Creek.

 

[junctionist]

I believe there was a proposal to build a slaughterhouse here. Unsurprisingly, people in the neighbourhood that immediately surrounds the site were upset. NIMBYism aside, it would have likely generated a steady flow of transport trucks along the residential streets that must be used to get to this site from outside the neighbourhood.

That would create noise and road safety issues for local residents, aside from the smell and noise of a slaughterhouse. It's not a good location for manufacturing. Light commercial could work, though, provided that it doesn't need to be serviced by a significant volume of transport trucks.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Some buildings and townhouses. Nothing to get too excited about here.