Toronto Public Health (TPH) is reaching out to the public for ideas for a new strategic plan. EPRA is very interested, both in health delivery, and in disease prevention, and we have written the city with our ideas for ways to make Toronto a healthier place to live.
Here are two documents. One is the city’s invitation to you, to offer your ideas. The other is our own letter, now sent in, with our suggestions, only some of many we and you might make.
A growing city needs room to breathe, relax, and play.
As the towers rise and fill up near Yonge, we require local parks, both to keep us green and cool, and to build good public realm for everyone.
Luckily, along the Duplex axis, four new parks are coming. The map here shows where they will be.
Upcoming Parks
1. We all know the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” For once, things are going the other way. Three quarters of the Castlefield Green P lot will be a new park. Deputy Mayor Colle has worked hard to make this happen.
2. The big development at 2400 Yonge, north of Anne Johnston Health and the fire hall, ceded land in its northwest corner to Toronto, for a park on Roselawn.
These two parks are in the works already. In perhaps three years they will be ready.
3. The developer of two new towers at 500 Duplex ceded the land under the present outdoor parking lot there to the city, for a public park on Montgomery. This awaits the completion of a construction not yet started.
4. Very gradually, the city is buying houses on the lands between Montgomery and Helendale. When developers cannot put parks on site, they feed a general fund, available to buy houses willing to sell. In the long run, a park will fill the whole block, west of the Station K-Montgomery Square tower.
EPRA and its local allies seek your ideas on what these parks should do both for us, and for nature. Please email us with your thoughts.
Here is a reminder from the Uptown Yonge BIA: the Halloween gathering on 28 October. It comes with links for contests and activities.
— EPRA
TRICK or TREAT, SHOP and EAT!
Come join us for a fun-filled, family friendly, free community event. The UPtown Yonge BIA is hosting its Halloween Haunt UP event scheduled on Saturday Oct 28, from 11 am to 6 pm.
Sidewalk Sale • Face Painting • Pumpkin Carving • Live Music & Street Buskers • Treats and Giveaways • Kids Costume Contest • Pet Costume Contest• Scavenger Hunt • Bouncy Castles & more
Trick or Treat at participating businesses in the Uptown Yonge BIA, along Yonge street between Roehampton Ave and Glengrove Ave.
SCAVENGER HUNT: This year we have launched our Ghoulish Halloween Scavenger Hunt powered by Driftscape. Join us in this spooktacular experience withy our family and friends to win prizes .
Looking for Volunteer Opportunities? : Sign up HERE
SIDEWALK SALE: Enjoy special seasonal discounts and promotions and help support our small businesses. When: Saturday, October 28th & Sunday, October 29th, 2023 (anytime between 10 am to 9 pm)) Where: UPtown Yonge BIA – Businesses along Yonge street between Roehampton Ave and Glengrove Ave
Bring your family and friends and help us spread the word by sharing our FACEBOOK EVENTwith your network.
On Tuesday, Sept. 12, there is a to be a Community Consultation for Madison’s proposed third tower at Henning and Eglinton.
Madison are asking for 34 storeys, for a building up Henning from the two on Eglinton. That is the same height as the agreed height for the building to be built to the south of it, as Eglinton.
All your thoughts on the proposed design are welcome.
For further information on 17 – 41 Henning Avenue, you can visit the application information centre to review the materials before the meeting at: www.toronto.ca/21HenningAve.
Live at OCAD University, 60 residents associations will host a public meeting to introduce leading mayoral candidates to the people of Toronto. With an outreach to 900,000 residents, this unique event could be a gamechanger in the municipal election.
The Federation of North Toronto Residents Associations (FoNTRA) and the Federation of South Toronto Residents Associations (FoSTRA) have worked together to organize this historic opportunity, along with the generous support of OCAD University. Major media is expected to cover the resident-led meeting. Questions from residents will put leading candidates to the test.
Nicole Swerhun of Third-Party Public will moderate the exchange with invited candidates:
Ana Bailao, Brad Bradford, Chloe Brown, Olivia Chow, Mitzie Hunter, and Josh Matlow
Thursday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m.
OCAD University Auditorium 100 McCaul Street
Free virtual access will be available on OCAD U’s YouTube channel: www.ocadu.ca/live
Mark your calendars: Wednesday,June 7, from 6 to 8 PM.
As you already know, a huge development is planned at Canada Square – the land around and including the old bus barn site at the southwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton. Since our last public meeting in November, Toronto has been refining its plan for this ambitious project. The last meeting raised many issues:
· The nature and feel of the open square
· The future uses of the two present towers
· The virtue of adding a park atop the subway trench
· The debated presence of a school
· The future use, animation, and administration of the public indoor spaces, including day care, meeting spaces, an art gallery, or a theatre.
This next meeting will help us residents track the evolution of the design and to volunteer our reactions and proposals.
We have to register to log on at this link. That opens a page with a table of meetings. Scroll to “2180-2210 Yonge Street, 15 Eglinton Avenue West, 20 and 46 Berwick” and a planner named David Driedger. You may find this on the front page. If not, click onto a second page.
2400 Yonge (between Roselawn and Montgomery) is a big, long project and we want to keep it smooth.
EPRA, the Uptown BIA, the city, and the developer have set up a HUB group to handle problems.
Problems like noise vibration, dust, fumes, parking, easy walking on the streets. Whatever your concern.
We neighbours can help make things better. Any suggestions, remarks, alerts, complaints? Just write to us at eglintonpark@gmail.com and we will bring them to the HUB for good solutions.
