After a lengthy fight at the Ontario Municipal Board, large chunks of the north side of Dupont have been rezoned for mixed-use development
, a nine-storey, 151-unit condo situated at very western end of the corridor , says the city needs to go even further and up-zone the strip of single family homes that line the south side of Dupont.
At a council meeting earlier this summer, she notes, “we gave them direction that the two departments are required to talk to each other and come back with advice as to how they’re going to plan streetscapes.” As Ms. Bravo observed, “This [was] a political direction problem.” What’s clear is that even by the normally sluggish standards of development in Toronto, the change sweeping across the entire length of the Dupont strip is well under way, from the cluster of high-rises that have sprung up in the past year or so from the Galleria Mall to half-finished projects near north-south intersection at Ossington, Shaw and Kendal avenues.
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