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Drop rental housing plan beside Scarborough Civic Centre, councillor says

Deal for parking lot in works before Housing Now proposal

June 9, 2020

Toronto city council wants two more Housing Now projects in Scarborough on sites that would contain a mix of affordable and market-rental housing.

Scarborough Centre Coun. Michael Thompson said one of those projects, close to the Scarborough Civic Centre, is a mistake.

Thompson and Glenn De Baeremaeker, a former councillor for the area, say Scarborough politicians have tried for 17 years to sell 158 Borough Dr. to a developer.

Those efforts to finally seal the deal shouldn’t be abandoned by the city now, both men said last week.

“I think there’s a reputational issue here,” Thompson argued.

The 1.48-acre Borough property is a two-level parking structure with about 350 spaces used by staff at the Civic Centre.

The complexities of a parking garage the city would share with the developer kept an agreement from being signed, but a deal was “95 per cent finished,” said De Baeremaeker, who added sale proceeds would have gone into a fund for improvements around the Civic Centre.

He believes a deal for 158 Borough would have included at least 100 affordable condominiums, a type of housing he said he supports.
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Drop rental housing plan beside Scarborough Civic Centre, councillor says

Toronto City Council wants two more Housing Now projects in Scarborough on sites which would contain a mix of affordable and market-rental housing.
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AlbertC said:
Drop rental housing plan beside Scarborough Civic Centre, councillor says

Deal for parking lot in works before Housing Now proposal

June 9, 2020



Drop rental housing plan beside Scarborough Civic Centre, councillor says

Toronto City Council wants two more Housing Now projects in Scarborough on sites which would contain a mix of affordable and market-rental housing.
www.toronto.com www.toronto.com
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How absurd.

It's a great location for density.

But he's got some bigoted anti-renter constituents, who he wants to mollify, screw the homeless, and the working poor.
 
There’s huge potential here to improve the public realm.

The Civic Centre and library are two of the best buildings in Scarborough.
 
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AlexBozikovic said:
There’s huge potential here to improve the proper realm.

The Civic Centre and library are two of the best buildings in Scarborough.
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Nowhere to go but up on this spot.

And so much could be achieved here with public realm.

Though the shame of everything that has come to pass before means some fixes aren't as easy as they ought to be; but we can certainly make it far better than it is.

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There's no sidewalk along the southern edge of this site.

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Our volunteers "pitched" this Borough Drive site as 750 units with 250 as affordable-rental last year, but fully-support the CreateTO count for 600 rental-units with 300 as affordable-rental that is in their current plan...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1280471331641929728
 
Community meeting last night. Folks in the existing Monarch buildings aren't happy that they might have to share. The @HousingNowTO crew was there to document the whole thing.

Proposal is wwo new Towers at 27-storeys (WEST) & 37-storeys (EAST) with a Total of 602 purpose-built rental units including 50% of the units as affordable. Diamond Schmitt as architect.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1384277004866883592
 
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