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Very Concerned About Traffic Intensification and Parking. 1. Traffic Very concerned about traffic intensification and parking. 1. Traffic: with 1500 residential units, this would be at least 3000 added trips per day (out and return for 1 person/day). Brentcliffe & Eglinton. already overcrowded. Will Eglinton be reduced to 1 lane? How many of these trips are likely to take LRT? 2. Parking. What is current number of surface parking spaces? 100? They are already full most of time. Increased retail/commercial units would require more than 248 (if I am correct) for staff and customers. Where else in city has similar project been built on similar space? What has effect on traffic & parking been? Sheppard & Leslie? Streets are MUCH wider there. Why is there no mention of school capacity? No provision of daycare? No library/sports/cultural facilities? Risk of basement flooding in Leaside area will grow as vastly more people use showers, sinks, toilets and tubs under proposed building density. The sewer and waste water lines beneath the streets are old and really need to be upgraded to better cope with existing conditions; they almost certainly will not cope with heavier demands. Mini power interruptions already occur each year -- and more serious outages will occur when hundreds of additional units are connected to the local grid. Such outages can, and do, wreck motherboards and computer-driven components in stoves, fridges and expensive computers. The existing power supply is unable to reliably meet current demand, much less projected heavier usage. Traffic volume has grown dramatically on Leaside streets in recent years, and can only worsen under the proposed building density, putting pedestrians -- particularly children at area schools -- at risk. Too much density and negative impact on the community. Far too many stories. No consideration for neighbourhood and eXisting ratepayers. City and neighbourhood streets far too busy and congested without added intensification. This proposal makes a mockery of all the by-laws regarding this property and if allowed to proceed could ring the death knell for Leaside as it presently exists. The survey covers my concerns if recorded...too many people into an already crowded neighbourhood...schools traffic and parking already are a nightmare with the TTC construction etc. Overcrowding at St Anselm's Catholic school is already a huge problem. I have eXamined the plans, elevations and renderings presented as part of this survey. I find this project, with its towers and connecting buildings, to be visually overpowering. There is just not enough space, public or private, to accommodate a project of this size and complexity. It will overwhelm the view for blocks around from street level as it is so out of proportion to any other project nearby. It is not beautiful (at least in my eyes) - in fact, it would fail the test for attractiveness under the Vision section of the Urban Design Guidelines. It will definitely have many impacts locally, in spite of the Tall Building Design Guidelines. It is difficult to see where the developer used both of these documents in his plans. The developer has succeeded in having the project area re-zoned, in spite of the fact that neither the Leaside Area Wide Traffic Study nor the Laird Focus Area of the Eglinton Connects Planning Study - both of which encompass the project's site - have been completed although both have been authorized. Even a maximum height of 7-8 stories can be visually overwhelming and inappropriate under the Guidelines. Looking around at the Leaside area as it exists now, made up for the most part of 2 story family homes, this maximum height seems perhaps excessive, but reasonable as long as that rule is not open to being changed. My concern is that developers will continue to ask for as many stories as they can get, and City Council will continue to give it to them. Or the OMB will if there is an appeal. Another concern if this project is allowed to go through as currently presented, is that it will set a precedent for this area. Leaside has seen many changes recently as new buildings, retail malls and big box stores have received approval and are built or in the process of being built. The increases in traffic volume and on-street parking are already having a significant impact on both main and residential streets. When all the projects that have been approved are completed, in particular the 2 big box stores and the towers at Bayview & Eglinton, the roads will be strained even further. To add all the vehicles that would be coming & going from 939 Eglinton - servicing retail, commercial & residential needs - without some sort of plan done first does not make sense. At some point, with the completion of these projects and the coming LRT, the roads will be completely inadequate and not just during rush hours. Nor is there room to widen them. We are a small, cohesive community of long standing. We have neither the money nor the numbers to take on large developers with big bank accounts. I understand that the developers want to maximize the return on their investments and that the City wants to maximize the taXes it can collect. Yet, it is a huge error to allow a developer to impose his own agenda on the neighbourhood and City Planning Dept. Truly, this project as presented does not meet many needs except those of the developer. Surely there are other factors which need to be taken into account, more to do with the human part of living in the city. I can see this project with maybe four 8 story buildings, mostly residential, interspersed with green areas for people to use for sitting, meeting with neighbours, etc. - not just for pathways. Perhaps a playground for kids. And a dog park. Lots of trees and grass. It is my suggestion that a moratorium be placed on this project and all others in the Leaside area that have not broken ground until the City has completed the Traffic Study, Eglinton Connects has completed the Laird Focus Area Planning Study and before yet more changes are made to the official plan. We all need the results of these Studies in order to properly assess development projects going forward. We need projects that are complementary to the eXisting buildings and neighbourhood. We don't need a monument. We need clear direction from City Planning that recognizes the validity of the concerns of those in the neighbourhood and the value of that neighbourhood to the City. We need decisions that aren't based solely on money. It's time to factor many other things, including air quality, noise, odours and dirt/dust, into City Planning development decisions. It is totally out of keeping of the community character and repugnantly inappropriate. Gridlock on Laird and surrounding streets is already a major concern. This intensification will only intensify the problems. Way too much density to add to already congested traffic. This big project, especially the condo part, will damage the cohesion of old Leaside, and making the local traffic worse. We should keep this location for office purpose, and do the same thing everywhere else in Leaside business park. We need no more retails, less condos, and more offices or even some local college, to preserve Leaside. Retail and condos will make our local street as the back lanes for parking and easy pass-through! You can't intensify this neighbourhood without building more roads and schools etc. This project is a vanguard of similar future development projects in the area that will only further push the issue of density/crowding and traffic congestion directly affecting the nearby residential areas. Industrial area will probably be adversely affected as new developments will generate more criticism of the proXimity of the industrial businesses and their operations Why not make Bayview a pedestrian-only zone? This proposed development will drastically change the quality of life in Leaside. We understand that change is inevitable and that change is good, however that being said it needs to be done responsibly and with consideration for those effected. Simply put the sheer scale of this development will negatively impact our neighbourhood on a variety of levels. Safety, community feeling (walk down any Leaside Street and witness neighbours talking to each other, looking out and helping one another), traffic (congestion, noise). We are against this development in its' current form, it is too large for our area and takes away from businesses to locate in Leaside. The buildings should have a nice eXternal appearance and be finished with materials that will not show water marks and other conspicuously unattractive signs of degradation over the years. The glass should not fall out of the window frames and the windows should not leak. The design should be wonderful, not the glass towers being proposed. The towers should be of a lower height than the number of stories proposed by the developer. Don't give them as much as they want. We don't know if economic units will be included. What are the socio-economic standards of the proposed residents and businesses? Keep the standards high. There must be good committees organized to keep the buildings operating to a high standard, keep the garbage picked up outside, etc. The plan should include a day care facility. If they get the full number of units proposed, insist on an elementary school as part of the project. The plan should include a dog running area. There should be measures in place to protect birds from flying into the towers. Question 3: No development at all is my preference Question 4: None of these.
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