Coun. John Filion is hoping the City of Toronto’s new review of its official plan for a large portion of Yonge Street in North York will help to create a better space for the increasingly dense neighbourhood.
“Developers are starting to put in more applications, so we need to develop policies to deal with them,” said Filion. “There’s also still the possibility of the Yonge subway being extended up to Highway 7.”
Filion hopes to avoid previous “mistakes” that were made along Yonge by restricting tall buildings to sites with subway stations, and he wants to eventually turn neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge in his ward into more self-contained neighbourhoods. “A place where kids can walk to school and there’s bike trails off the road,” he said.
“This [review] will determine the level of development that can be supported,” said city senior planner Rob Gibson.