Lower Don Trail Master Plan Refresh
Public Open House_September 17 2019
1 Lower Don Trail Master Plan Refresh 2018-ongoing Partnership between City of Toronto and Evergreen Corktown Common to the Forks of East and West Don
8.1 kilometres of Trail 2.4x size of High Park
2 Project Purpose
The Master Plan Refresh: yy Provides high level direction and identifies potential future projects. yy Considers that each project (or bundle of projects) will have its own design process and engagement activities. yy Does not make commitments to funding or timing.
3 Process
4 2003 Plan Context + Continuum West Don Lands Precinct Plan 2006 Evergreen Brick Works
2007 Lower Don Lands Competition late 1980s Task Force 2015 to Bring Back Evergreen_Don River Charrette the Don 2016 DRVP Case for Support “Super Park” Announcement
2019 Lower Don Phase 2 Improvements
2018 Parkland Strategy early-mid 90s TO Core Parks + Public Realm Lower Don Trail Unilever Precinct Plan Queen St. Staircase Port Lands Planning Framework Restoration Efforts Lower Don Trail MP Update 2017 Ravine Strategy 2014 Lower Don Phase 1 Improvements
2013 Lower Don Trail Access, Environment and Art MP
5 Context: Why This is Important.
6 Love/Hate/Love
7 8 9 1890 to c.1910 Lower Don Straightening and Don Roadway
10 1890 to c.1910 Lower Don Straightening and Don Roadway
11 1890 to c.1910 Estuary Draining for Port Lands
12 1950s Don Valley Parkway
13 1960s Baseball Stadium Location Study
14 1989 Task Force to Bring Back the Don
15 1991
16 80,000 + New Residents
The intensification and development of new communities in the Lower Don Valley neighbourhoods will bring over 80,000 estimated new residents into the core of the city.
17 West Don Lands
18 West Don Lands/Pan Am Village
19 Corktown Common
20 Evergreen Brick Works
21 Lower Don Lands
22 Lower Don Lands
23 Lower Don Trail Access, Environment and Art Master Plan 2013
24 Lower Don Trail Access, Environment and Art Master Plan 2013
Themes Conceptual Framework Demonstration Plan yy Access + Connectivity yy Landscape Connectivity yy 21 Potential Projects in 2 Main Categories yy Environment + yy Parallel Routes Habitat Restoration »» Management and yy Links + Loops Improvements to yy Public Art + Interpretation Existing Infrastructure yy Precincts + Nodes »» New Infrastructure yy Phased Implementation yy Opportunities for Future Exploration
25 Improve the Trail
26 New River Crossings
27 New Access to Valley
28 Rethink Bayview Avenue
29 New Parks
30 Don River Charrette 2015
DESIGN CHARRETTE STUDENT 31 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS Group 1: RYERSON Claude Cormier UNIVERSITY Alex Bozikovic Anthony Smith Alissa North Andrea Mantin Group 1: David O’hara DON RIVER Andy Gavel John Hillier Taylor Marquis Marc Hallé Scott Torrance Group 1: Mark Wilson Wayne Coutinho DESIGN CHARETTE Meg Graham Kelly Graham Mark Ross / FALL 2015 Greg Smallenberg Group 1: Kara Riggio Emma Abramowicz Kristina Reinders Neil Loewen Group 2: IN FALL 2015, Evergreen brought together over 75 landscape architects and designers, STUDENT architects and urban planners, City and Toronto Region Conversation Authority staff, Brian Denney PARTICIPANTS artists and students from Ryerson University’s Ecological Design Lab and the University of Craig Lametti UNIVERSITY David Leinster Toronto’s Master of Landscape Architecture in a design charette to ‘Imagine a Don Valley OF TORONTO: Marc Ryan Group 1: Neighbourhood’. The groups were asked to address a big question: how can the Lower Mary Tremain Afshin Afshari Netami Stuart Don landscape from Corktown Common to Evergreen Brick Works be the centrepiece for Jordan Duke Canada’s largest city and how can it inspire the world? Over three days, three design teams Ruthanne Henry Shirley Blumberg Jasper Flores strategized creative solutions to imagine a bold design vision for the Lower Don River – Nina-Marie Lister Nicholas Gosselin not as a linear corridor, but as a vast river valley in the centre of our city, a vibrant urban Andy Chisholm Ameneh Kadivar park with a coherent and strong identity, and the collective backyard for over 250,000+ Chris Veres Kono Asuka Jianing Chee Torontonians. The energy and ideas generated by charette participants was outstanding Carolyn Woodland Aisling O’Carroll Andrey Chernykh and has significantly shaped the vision for the Don River Valley Park. Evergreen gratefully Deanne Mighton Sandra Cook acknowledges the contributions of all of the charette participants. Leo Desorcy Leonard Flot Michael Van Valkenburgh Wenting Li
Group 3: Group 2: Ferrucio Sardella Jordan Lypkie Chris Pommer Anita Manitius Garth Armour Emma Mendel Heidi Campbell Tamar Pister Jeffrey Staates Kamila Grigo Lisa Prime Andrew Hooke Mark Reid Shui Ko Janet Rosenberg Tom Kwok Chris Glaisek Kaitlyn Pelletier Ralph Giannone Brent Raymond Group 3: Julia Murnaghan Anna Rosen Gary Miedema Dayne Roy-Caldwell Harold Madi Jaclyn Ryback Jim Sackville Nate Wilner Shan Yang Floaters: Rachel Salmela Alun Lloyd Hannah Soules Brenda Webster Natasha Varga-Papp Cam Collyer Julie Wong Cathy Jonasson Shaine (Grace) Wong James Paul Gifford Judy Matthews Jane Welsh Anthony (Tony) Yates
Imagine the Possible at donrivervalleypark.ca IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: 550 Bayview Avenue, Suite 300 Toronto, ON. M4W 3X8. 416-596-1495 32 DRVP_Case for Support TORONTO’S LARGEST URBAN PARK IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT The Don River Valley Park will be the centerpiece of Toronto’s rapidly growing downtown: a 200-hectare park spanning Pottery Road to Corktown Common. Underutilized, unsound and largely inaccessible land will be transformed “A bold idea is in motion… into a remarkable new civic space that A city-wide ravine strategy to connects neighbourhoods and new developments to parkland, brings people name the system and engage back to the river’s edge, revitalizes an ecologically degraded and flood-prone partnerships to help restore, valley, and introduces opportunity for solitude, recreation, bicycle commuting, connect and animate the art and culture. Built on a solid foundation of past 11,000-hectare system…that community-engagement efforts, this vision boldly looks to the future and holds the promise to define serves as the proverbial first mile of a Toronto, offer a significant broader city-wide ravine revitalization strategy. Prototyping new collaborative “place making” opportunity ways of reimagining and realizing the potential of our ravines, the Don for those of us who live here River Valley Park will demonstrate and to share our unique what’s possible across Toronto. natural assets with visitors from around the world.” ~ MAYOR JOHN TORY Photo: Vito Riccio Photo: Vito
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2 DON RIVER VALLEY PARK /3 Don River Valley Park
34 “Super Park”
35 Evergreen Public Art Program
36 City of Toronto Ravine Strategy
37 City of Toronto Parkland Strategy
38 North: Davenport TOCore: Core Circle, 2018 Road Bluff
East: Don River Valley Ravine / Rosedale Valley Ravine
West: Garrison Creek Corridor
South: Toronto Islands / Toronto Bay 39
Diagrammatic representation of the diversity of species and vegetation communities including forests, wetlands and meadows that comprise the Core Circle landscapes, Toronto, Canada
1 North: Davenport Road Bluff 2 East: Don River Valley Ravine and Rosedale Valley Ravine 3 South: Toronto Islands and Toronto Bay 4 West: Garrison Creek Corridor
PUBLIC WORK 33 TRANSFORMATIVE IDEA 1. THE CORE CIRCLE East: Don River Valley Ravine
TOCore Lower Don Trail Meets River Street Segment Martin Goodman Trail Riverdale Park West Riverdale Park East Rosedale Valley Future Road Broadview Don River Avenue Valley Park
Primary Lower Don Bayview Avenue Trail Re-allocate East Lane to Pedestrians and Cyclists Bayview Avenue ‘Great Street’ Trail Segment
Evergreen Brickworks
Trail
Street 40
Don River Valley Ravine and Rosedale Valley Ravine, Proposed Concept
Toronto’s unique ravine landscape was carved into the Toronto’s ravine landscape has been neglected and land more than 12,000 years ago by the retreat of the abused for the past century. Now is the time to restore Wisconsinan glaciation. On the edge of the Downtown, and re-harmonize the ravine landscape, to leverage the with dramatic topography and a rich and layered dramatic topography and Indigenous cultural heritage physical, natural and cultural heritage landscape history, landscape for creative placemaking and interpretation.
56 TOCore
41 Port Lands Planning Framework
42 East Harbour
43 Keating Channel Precinct
44 Villiers Island
45 Mouth of the Don Naturalization
46 Mouth of the Don Naturalization
47 Port Lands: River Park
48 Wonscotonach Parklands Naming Event / Indigenous Placemaking
49 2013 to 2019, Looking Forward.
50 Lower Don Trail Access, Environment and Art Master Plan 2013
51 Phase 1 Improvements: Completed
52 Phase 1 Improvements: Completed yy Pottery Road Pedestrian Bridge yy Bayview Avenue Multi-use Path (Pottery Road to Rosedale Valley Road) yy Belleville Underpass yy Pottery Road Trailhead yy Trail Improvements
53 Phase 2 Improvements: 2019
54 Phase 2 Improvements: 2019
55 Phase 2 Improvements: 2019 yy Riverdale Bridge Ramp yy Dundas Staircase yy Trail Improvements in the Narrows
56 Lower Don Trail Master Plan Refresh 2019
57 2019: MP Study Area
2013: Corktown Common to Pottery Road 2019: Corktown Common to the Forks of East and West Don
8.1 kilometres of Trail 2.4x size of High Park
58 2019: MP Structure
Re-engaging Embracing Re-imagining the River Neighbourhoods Infrastructure yy Opportunities to see, yy The Park as a meeting yy Tying trail and parkland experience and perhaps place for communities, improvements to future even touch the river with greater opportunity infrastructure replacement for programming yy Will include discussion of yy Reconsidering aging Indigenous programming yy Links and loops, parallel infrastructure in the Park: trails and highlighting opportunities for reuse or yy The river as the focal point ‘ravine portals’ where the redesign of the Park Park is accessed
59 2019: Projects + Implementation
Five Segments from North to South yy Crothers-Coxwell yy The Mills yy Riverdale yy The Narrows yy East Harbour
60 2019: Projects + Implementation
Recommended Projects Future Engagement yy 96 Individual Projects Each individual project/phase of projects will include its own engagement activities yy Improvements / New Infrastructure with stakeholders and the public. »» Portals »» Lookouts/Rest Areas »» Water Approaches »» Canoe Launches »» Rotating Public Art Sites
61 2019: Projects + Implementation
Phased Implementation yy Recently Completed (2013-2019): 18 Projects yy Approved / Under Construction: 12 Projects yy 1 to 5 Years: 23 Projects yy 5 to 10 Years: 28 Projects yy Future Consideration: 25 Projects
62 63 Demonstration: Re-engaging the River Snowdrop Park
64 Demonstration: Re-engaging the River Snowdrop Park
65 Demonstration: Re-engaging the River Snowdrop Park
66 Demonstration: Re-engaging the River Snowdrop Park
67 Demonstration: Re-engaging the River Water Approaches
68 69 Demonstration: Embracing Neighbourhoods Broadview Riverdale Promenade
70 71 Demonstration: Embracing Neighbourhoods Thorncliffe Ravine Portal
72 Demonstration: Embracing Neighbourhoods Thorncliffe Ravine Portal
73 Demonstration: Re-imagining Infrastructure Inner Portal
74 75 Demonstration: Re-imagining Infrastructure Improved Trails
76 Demonstration: Re-imagining Infrastructure Improved Crossings
77 Demonstration: Re-imagining Infrastructure Bayview Avenue as Scenic Street
78 Next Steps
Phase 3: Master Plan _FINAL End of September 2019
Document Layout: Technical and Promotional October 2019
79 Questions for Clarification
80 For More Information
Contact Brendan McKee, Project Manager Parks, Forestry and Recreation | Horticulture City of Toronto Scarborough Civic Centre 150 Borough Drive Toronto, Ontario M1P 4N6 t: 416-396-4192 e: [email protected]
Website www.toronto.ca/lowerdon
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credit: Vitto Riccio
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