EPRA joined six other local RA groups, in consort with the three councillors at Yonge and Eglinton, to ask the city for a Working Group to do a study of Oxford’s proposal for the bus lands. Canada Square. Oxford has proposed five very tall buildings, for offices and housing, with half the site to be open space for citizens. In itself, generally a good thing. But these are city lands, and midtown has urgent needs for a school, and for facilities we can use, places to gather, to work together, to perform, and to absorb the arts. EPRA wants that study to work through how best to leverage public lands to produce an outcome good for all of us.
Meanwhile, the future intersection of the Yonge subway and the LRT should function as a magnet, with features that draw citizens from all directions.
The Working Group will soon begin. When it does, we will put out the word and invite your participation.
A Park on the Green P lot
We hear that Green P wants to sell the Castlefield lot as they find it under-used. We may need to conserve some parking, to support the shops on Yonge, but would hope to see a lot of it become a badly needed park.
44 storeys on Orchard View at Yonge
Eglinton Park Residents' Association 
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