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Oh, I was referring to an expansion of Kariya. It's very cramped in todays context of a "downtown" core, but I do want to see other parks like Fairview expanded upon, especially given the mammoth M City project is next door. (And while it has its own park, I think a proactive plan for park management on the west side of MCC is necessary given the future plans of the area as a whole.
 
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sixrings said:
Yes. I know. But I think those plans are now on the back burner because elm school is too small, so Fairview can’t close and there’s no downtown school. You can’t keep building 70 floor towers and not add school capacity.
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Apologies, I misread that. I'm glad they're addressing this issue, as I know other schools will be/are struggling with this now. (TLKennedy, Father Michael Goetz)
 
Yeah clearly they under-built Elm Drive PS when they just added those portables to a brand new school. Although I have to say this a common situation I've noticed with new schools in Mississauga at least, they're constantly under-built, and then need additions in a few years. For example, the two elementary schools close to my parents house, when growing up, both were built AND had additions done after the original build (St. Gregory and Britannia PS, specifically) and where the additions were done is pretty obvious from the slightly different colours of brick used. I feel like this is almost done on purpose and in a few years Elm Drive PS will get an addition. But yeah there's no chance of closing Fairview while Elm Dr is overcapacity.
 
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Walked by the site today on my way to a council meeting and noticed the street and sidewalk is in place from Sq One parking lot entrance to Burnhamthorpe, but close to the public.

They are staring to work on the 4th floor of the final tower.

Photos will follow at some point.

I have been calling over a decade that it is time to start building schools in these type of developments on the 2nd and 3rd floor with a play area for the outside.

Time for people to visit the new city core display in the atriums of city hall to see the new models for the city core, but it out data as this project and M3 are missing from the display
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Dan416 said:
Yeah clearly they under-built Elm Drive PS when they just added those portables to a brand new school. Although I have to say this a common situation I've noticed with new schools in Mississauga at least, they're constantly under-built, and then need additions in a few years. For example, the two elementary schools close to my parents house, when growing up, both were built AND had additions done after the original build (St. Gregory and Britannia PS, specifically) and where the additions were done is pretty obvious from the slightly different colours of brick used. I feel like this is almost done on purpose and in a few years Elm Drive PS will get an addition. But yeah there's no chance of closing Fairview while Elm Dr is overcapacity.
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St Greg’s nearly closed a few years ago because it was under-enrolled.
 
Tuscani01 said:
St Greg’s nearly closed a few years ago because it was under-enrolled.
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yeah that's why school boards are afraid to overbuild. Schools in new subdivisions have a bit of a boom and bust cycle, so to try to avoid overbuilding, they use the portables. St. Joseph Secondary used to have like 20 portables. I think they got rid of most (all?) of them when St. Marcellinus opened.
 
sixrings said:
Great but at Greg’s and or St Joseph’s are not beside countless 40+ floor buildings being developed. And this is the problem with elm and Fairview. They simply keep building more buildings so there’s no possible way for the area to age out of these schools. In fact Fairview doesn’t even take class pictures because there is so much turnover in the area.
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Yeah I agree I don't think it would be so much of an issue here with all the growth. That said, though, in MCC they should really be building schools into condo podiums somehow. Not sure if there's any examples of that in Toronto, but it seems like a logical solution.
 
sixrings said:
I think there’s an example at Yonge and Eglinton and Yonge and Sheppard. I could be wrong.
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The one at Yonge and Eglinton is a high school. It was a win win for everyone with the school being larger with a real nice sport field and towers on both side of it. The inside of the school has part of the heritage façade of the old school that was falling apart.

Not recall a school for Yonge and Sheppard for the ones I have follow and shot. I could over look it and if so, what building as there are a number there??
 
Dan416 said:
Yeah I agree I don't think it would be so much of an issue here with all the growth. That said, though, in MCC they should really be building schools into condo podiums somehow. Not sure if there's any examples of that in Toronto, but it seems like a logical solution.
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I agree with you there and I would also add that full sized grocery stores should also be in some podiums, like with what you have by the ACC (near Jurassic Park) with the Longo‘s at the base of one of the condos. It is all about making daily necessities in goods and services being made accessible in these dense neighbourhoods without the need for a car.


PS: I might be off with my terms, I‘ve been out of the country for 11-12 years. I still say SkyDome and refer to BestBuy as FutureShop.
 
mininamib said:
I agree with you there and I would also add that full sized grocery stores should also be in some podiums, like with what you have by the ACC (near Jurassic Park) with the Longo‘s at the base of one of the condos. It is all about making daily necessities in goods and services being made accessible in these dense neighbourhoods without the need for a car.


PS: I might be off with my terms, I‘ve been out of the country for 11-12 years. I still say SkyDome and refer to BestBuy as FutureShop.
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I know there's a Food Basics being built near Confederation. I'm not sure if it's in the base of a condo, but I'd assume so?
 
Agree 100%. We shouldn't be encouraging auto-centric development any way. All it does is encourage more driving and the continuation of absurdly wide roads. The Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens does have underground parking but I doubt they'd lose much business if they got rid of the parking altogether. Most people who do drive there, would just walk instead; taking more cars off Carlton. Carlton will eventually have to be rebuilt with proper sidewalks, separated bike lanes, and 2 lanes for cars. My 25 year wait continues.

The Exchange District Condos look great. Too bad about that 'highway' next to it.
 
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Hey was there discussion about a MCC school earlier in this thread? I just read this story on Insauga about the current Mississauga Mayor seeking to get a school board „on board“ for a school.
#alliteration #localjournalism

www.insauga.com

New school for downtown Mississauga is part of mayor's plan | INsauga

Plans for a new school that would be located in Mississauga’s downtown core by Square One are being floated by the city’s mayor. An urban school housing kindergarten through Grade 8 students that would anchor a larger development of two residential highrise towers, for example, is something...
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