Mayor Olivia Chow should direct Toronto staff to tear up the plans for the site and start from scratch
A rendering of the McCleary District plan for Park Street, proposed a few kilometres from Toronto's downtown core along Eastern Avenue. Park Streets will be slow-paced, narrow and green, prioritizing pedestrian access.The City of Toronto is planning a brand-new neighbourhood in its port lands, a 20-hectare zone called the McCleary District.
In Germany or Spain, government would launch a design competition to establish the urban design for the area, seeking clear spatial ideas that could give the place an identity. The plan demonstrates a half dozen problems common to recent Toronto building projects. Generally, Toronto urban design policy faces no meaningful scrutiny at all. The waterfront panel – whose members have fewer ties to the city – have the power to offer such scrutiny, and last week they did.
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