The average condo purchaser in this city nowadays, however, isn't a car owner. With the Crosstown just a short walk from this development, vehicular traffic would not be impacted here to the degree that a similarly scaled project in Richmond Hill would impact its surrounding streets.
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The average condo purchaser isn't a car owner would apply much more downtown where folks can walk to where they work, shop, dine, hangout, etc,... it likely would not apply here since this is Leaside and there's only so much you could do in Leaside before you want to escape,.... and one of the feature for this site is it's close proximity to the DonVallyParkway and Highway 401,... which are only for cars!
The rest of the statement sounds very familiar to me,... I've been hearing it for at least 25 years since I live in NorthYorkCentre,... "Most of the condo units have just 1-bedroom and condo buyers will take the Yonge subway since they live so close to Yonge Street. Local traffic won't be impacted at all!"
Even though most condos in NorthYorkCentre are 1-bedroom condos, there's an average of 2.5 people living in a NorthYorkCentre condo; thus someone might take transit and someone else might drive the car,.... especially since there's about 1 parking space for each condo unit and most condo dwellers are working age so they'll also be likely to drive during rush hour,... adding to local traffic congestion and transit capacity issues.
Since amalgamation in 1998, NorthYorkCentre (Yonge corridor between Hwy 401 to Finch Hydro Corridor) has seen over 60 new condo towers and only one office tower built,... it's now a vertical sleeping community. The Yonge Subway line has been at or over-capacity for at least 10 years. Local traffic congestion in North York Centre is worst in GTA,... On list of top 10 worst intersection for traffic congestion: Yonge Street between Highway 401 and Sheppard is #2, Bayview at Sheppard & 401 is #1 only because it gets all the traffic that has given up on Yonge-401 interchange.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...fies_top_10_most_congested_intersections.html
The problem with NorthYorkCentre is the city never built enough infrastructure (road, transit, school, parks, etc,...) to adequately service the increasing local population,... and I strongly suspect the same problems will repeat itself here too.
Let's compare development along Eglinton from Duplex to SunnyBrook Park to NorthYorkCentre (Yonge corridor between Hwy 401 to Cummer/Drewry) since they're both around 4km:
- Until recently all development in NorthYorkCentre is limited to 100m (about 30 storeys), only HullmarkCentre (45 & 35 storeys), GibsonSqure (42 & 42 storeyes) and EmeraldPark (40 & 32 storeys) have exceeded that height limit. Some of the developments near Eglinton & Yonge have are just under 60 storeys; these developments also tends to take up larger footprints and have more condo units per floor; thus, much higher density.
- the rate of residential condo development/construction along Eglinton (between Duplex and Sunnybrook park) seems to be much higher than anything we've seen over the last 20 years of NorthYorkCentre condo boom.
- Politically, NorthYorkCentre mainly run through the middle of just one ward, an already Section 37 rich Ward23; now due to traffic congestion, Yonge subway capacity issues, lack of school space, etc,... there's lots of resistance to future developments not just from the single residential houses but also from residents in the condos; this makes it tougher for development in southern part of NorthYorkCentre, thus developer trying their luck northward where there's less local resistance (especially in ward 24). Eglinton corridor between Duplex to Sunnybrook Park run through the outer edges of 4 city wards (16, 22, 25 & 26),... 4 city wards eager to use Section 37 Community Benefit money for local projects paid for by developers.
- NorthYorkCentre was/is generally built with Service Roads of Doris Ave and Beecroft Road acting as buffers and limiting access points and thus limiting traffic penetration from high density NorthYorkCentre developments into surrounding low density single residential housing neighbourhoods. Eglinton (between Duplex and Sunnybrook park - nor any other part of Eglinton corridor) doesn't have any such Service Roads to act as buffer to protect the established surrounding low density single residential housing neighbourhoods. City Planning did consider such service roads but ultimately rejected the idea.
This development will bring in about 1500 units in addition to the proposed 1500 units at southwest corner of Eglinton & Brentcliffe,.... future proposal for southeast corner of Eglinton & Brentcliffe will likely bring in about 1500 units,.... the Mercedes-Benz land could bring in another 1000 units,.... all the sudden that's about 5500 units,... close to 15,000 new residents! That's one reason why my previous post suggested Section37 community benefit and development fees from these developments go towards a road connection between Leslie and Bayview Extension,.... to minimize impact of vehicular traffic on local streets in Leaside.
