City hall should stop this train and call for a design competition to develop a new holistic vision for the area
Draft drawings of the demonstration plan for the revised Villiers Island precinct plan, as presented to the Waterfront Toronto Design review panel in March.Toronto’s public sector is planning a 33-hectare neighbourhood on Lake Ontario. It features fine new parks and vast swaths of empty public land. It represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for dense, creative city-building.just east of downtown, went to a public meeting on Thursday; it will go to Toronto City Council in June.
Both projects are the work of Waterfront Toronto, which is owned by the city, the province and the federal government. There is no sign that the area was once a wetland of deep significance to the place’s Indigenous occupants – including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, who have had no major role in the plan so far.Villiers gets a grid, just like the one British surveyors imposed on this place 200 years ago.
But the original plan was so modest that, after a 60 per cent increase, the numbers remain low. Villiersin Scarborough calls for 918 apartments on one hectare. The goal in both cases is to use market housing to subsidize social housing. If the buildings are too small, the numbers won’t work.
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