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YMVA Newsletter Website: www.hoggshollow.net President’s Update By: Christine Acconcia February 2012 [email protected] Vol. 72, Issue 1 Hope the jump into 2012 was an exciting one for ________________________________ all! I would like to take a moment to thank Barbara Wilkes for Chairing our Development Inside this Issue: Committee for these past few years and Chris Rosenthal for sitting on the board for several President’s Update years as NAG Liaison. They have asked to step Yonge York Mills Channel Maintenance down to pursue other challenges and we Hogg’s Hollow Infrastructure Update sincerely thank them for all their participation Air Traffic Noise over the years. Good luck! The Board does so Development much especially behind the scenes to ensure that Crime Watch the valley’s best interests are respected at the Valley Clean-up City level. And thanks to a very cohesive NAG Update relationship with Councillor Jaye Robinson’s Spring & Summer Social Events office, we feel we really do make a difference. To fill one of the vacancies, Fran Clark has kindly accepted to offer to join us this year. We YMVA 2012 Contact are looking for someone as Secretary and another for a member-at-large. If you would like to inquire about these 2 roles, please give me a call at 416-480-0623 or email me. Any of the Board members can be contacted through their emails listed on our website: www.hoggshollow.net. We obviously have to continue to be patient with all the upheaval in the valley due to all the road and Channel Maintenance work being done. Your continued patience is much appreciated. We continue to encourage everyone to be more conscientious about driving more slowly, following detour routes and watching out even Editor: Jan Kosick more for pedestrians and bicyclists. Particularly Tel.(416) 481-9799 noteworthy is the driving around the Millstone Email: [email protected] parkette, Plymbridge Road by the school and the top of the Donwoods hill turning off of Yonge St. - 1 - For project updates and upcoming Street will be in place until the completion of the neighbourhood activities please take a moment project. and read through this newsletter. Between the newsletters, bulletin board messages and the Material will be removed via the small parkette blast emails, we trust that we keep you at the end of Knightswood Road, and the adequately informed. If you would like to be on municipal road allowance on St. Margarets our confidential blast email distribution list, Drive, and will be hauled by truck to the please email Jan Kosick at [email protected]. stockpile area near Yonge Street and York Mills Road for de-watering until it can be permanently Here’s to another wonderful year in the present disposed of off- site in the spring of 2012. construction site we call our Country in the Regular inspection and cleaning of the roadways City! along the access route will be completed to minimize disruption to the community during Yonge York Mills Channel construction. For more information on the project please visit Maintenance Program: the TRCA website at www.trca.on.ca/yymcc By Louise Sugar which contains project updates and photos, or [email protected] contact: (416) 483-6614 (416) 788-5922 Contact : The phase 1 removal of the collapsed concrete Craig Mitchell, Supervisor - Flood Infrastructure slabs along the portion of Yonge/York Mills and Hydrometrics, Ecology Division channel located at York Mills Road has been Toronto and Region Conservation Authority completed. The collapsed concrete slabs have Cell 647 212-2410 been replaced with river stone boulders to EMERGENCY 24/7 stabilize the channel bank and create a more Fax 416.661.6898 natural channel. [email protected] Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is preparing to commence a clean-up of Hogg’s Hollow Infrastructure the river banks and beds within the Yonge – Upgrade Update York Mills Flood Control Channel from By Simon Levy approximately Knightswood Road to Donino [email protected] Avenue in the City of Toronto. The scope of work includes removal of sediment and The Hoggs Hollow Phase 1 works are vegetation from the limits of the channel to progressing albeit at a slower than anticipated restore capacity, which is essential to preventing pace. flooding during severe storm events. Work is tentatively scheduled to commence The contractor, Tectonic, is presently working early February, 2012 pending the receipt of the on a massive junction maintenance hole at Ivor necessary approvals, and is anticipated to be and Donino Ave. This maintenance hole is completed by March 31, 2012 excluding final expected to be complete in about ten to fourteen site restoration of disturbed areas which will be days. We are currently limiting the works completed in the spring of 2012 as weather beyond that junction maintenance hole to conditions permit. In the absence of project minimize the overall impact to the community. approvals, work will recommence in July of Upon completion of those works, the contractor 2012. The black fencing along the river, on Mill will mobilize a second work crew in an attempt - 2 - to accelerate progress. This second crew will individual residents are adversely affected, CEG concentrate on the Plymbridge and Maytree site personnel will continue to proactively work areas with the existing crew working to directly with that resident to ensure home access complete Donino Ave and Crescent and alternate parking arrangements are made and respectively. adequate. Based on the latest projections, overall works The site office contact is Cons Palparan and his will continue into April 2012. number is 416 802 5534. Cons can assist anyone with specific site related matters. Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of less than ideal instances on site. Air Traffic Noise By Leanne Lewis First, there is a suspected partial [email protected] collapse/blockage of the existing sanitary sewer near Donino Crescent. This resulted in a At the YMVA AGM Councillor number of basement flooding occurrences. Robinson brought up the issue of air traffic Should they wish, these residents may file a noise. She noted that over the past 3 formal claim through the City's claim process. years Lawrence Park and other interested This can be accessed via ratepayer groups have organized around the http://www.toronto.ca/finance/insurance_claims issue. She invited the YMVA to join their .htm. The City is working with Tectonic to efforts. repair this suspected collapse/blockage within a day or two. On February 3, 2012 Christine Acconcia and Leanne Lewis attended an information meeting Second, there was a significant power outage as and learned the following: On the good news a result of the works. This is unfortunate and front, as of February 9 the centre line of the should not have happened. There are policies in inbound flight corridor affecting North Toronto place to prevent these and an investigation is is being moved 1.8 km southward. Also, the underway to determine how and why it inbound flight queue is being extended 6 happened. By law, the contractor is required to km southwest over Humber Bay, which is identify these connections prior to working in designed to narrow the width of the flight the vicinity. This was done by an external corridor. Taken together it is hoped that the net province wide not-for-profit agency. The effect of these two changes will diminish the quality of this locate will be revisited. Also, by number of flights over our area and hence the contract, the contractor is required to physically noise. reveal the utility and ensure works are away from it. Whilst this is the practice, it obviously On the not-so-good-news front it was reported did not work in this instance. The reasons for that the Greater Toronto Airports Authority this will be identified and corrected. (GTAA) has requested approval from Nav Canada to increase the number of late night Occasionally, accesses to residential properties inbound flights to Pearson. Although late night were impeded more than anticipated. The City's flights are supposed to come in over areas of low consultant, CEG is working proactively to population density, the reality is that variable minimize these to the absolute minimum. CEG weather conditions often require that flight paths will endeavour to ensure all homes are be changed, resulting in late flights coming in accessible over holidays and weekends. Where over North Toronto. Although public - 3 - consultations were held on the matter, they were 7682 and ask for a call back. Please note, you poorly promoted and public input was quite will need to know the approximate time that you thin. Therefore, although the February 9 heard the flight so investigators can identify and southward shift of the flight corridor might gather statistics. diminish night flight noise for much of North Toronto, the organizers of the February 3 It is worth making the complaint as statistics are meeting asked Councillor Robinson and local gathered as to where noise complaints come ratepayer groups to write letters to Nav Canada from and, when flights are found to have requesting that the time frame for public input contravened Nav Canada flight rules e.g. flying be extended and that the invitation for input be too low, action is taken. more broadly publicized. The working group leaders that led the meeting also expressed Development concern that the GTAA has medium and long By Lara Shohet term plans to increase traffic at Pearson, [email protected] possibly resulting in more air traffic over North Toronto if flight paths are not further adjusted. Over the past five years, Barbara Wilkes has thoughtfully and diligently overseen all Although some of the positions of the working development-related issues for the YMVA.