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http://www.readingt.readingcities.com/index.php/toronto/comments/12765/ 03/05/08 8:03 PM To comment scroll to the Toronto News Ads by Google Spacing Toronto Ontario Lodging bottom of the entry. Your e- Eldercare Toronto Saturday!s headlines Toronto Property mail address and URL are SPACING RELEASE Toronto Properties PARTY: Sunday May 4th Nursing Homes Toronto optional fields. 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It’s a granny flat story. industrial sector inner design israel Antonia Zerbisias Benny Box integrity literature labour relations love BlogTO A recent project of mine involves an aging mother and her caring mainstream money mail maps nadine Chris Young daughter. The daughter has a family home with her husband and new strategy newfoundland and labrador Daragh Sankey two children in downtown Toronto. Their lot can accommodate a nonsense offshore oil openness oil and gas David Crow three-car garage with lane access as-of-right. The daughter would production programming choices picket line Eye Blog GTA Bloggers photography profit and loss palestine like to have her mother live with the family on the same lot in a GadgetMan prosperity regard risk residential towers wheelchair friendly granny flat. The mother has a degenerative Jill Murray mobility condition that is worsening. radio reminder sarah anne johnson scope Mark Evans smokestack industries silence salvage Neuroti.ca Page 1 of 7 http://www.readingt.readingcities.com/index.php/toronto/comments/12765/ 03/05/08 8:03 PM smokestack industries silence salvage Neuroti.ca strikers streetcar toronto star On The Fence The cost of a 540 square foot granny flat that is wheelchair Paved friendly and also accommodates one car parking, is approximately toronto thorstein veblen tibet Sally McKay $50,000 - $70,000. In contrast, adapting the existing house to be Simpleposie thesis project traffic ttc strike truth waste wheelchair accessible is very expensive. The equipment cost alone Singer.to diversion wail winnipeg -- the exterior elevator from sidewalk to 1st floor and interior Spacing Wire Daily Dose of Imagery wheelchair lift on the interior stair -- NOT including design, Torontoist structural or labour, will be $40,000 to $50,000. The complete Toronto Galleries Zoilus renovation will cost $150,000, $250,000 plus. I know this because Allan Gardens I'm doing another house for another aging couple that is doing Archives of Ontario News Sources R.C. Archdiocese of Toronto exactly this. Compare this to the yearly cost for a nursing home CBC Art Gallery of Mississauga Eye which is approximately $40,000 to $90,000, and will likely not be Art Gallery of Ontario Globe and Mail Art Gallery of York University nearby. The cost savings and convenience of having a granny flat is NOW Art Metropole self-evident. Bata Shoe Museum Spacing Black Creek Pioneer Village The Bulletin The Newspaper My point is this. The owners received approval from public works, Blackwood Gallery Bradley Museum The Ryersonian ambulance, fire department and the building department for this Creative Spirit Art Centre The Varsity granny flat on a lane. Planning was the only agency in our city not CBC Museum Toronto Indie to approve the granny flat. Campbell House Toronto Life Museum of Carpets and Textiles Toronto Star CNE Archives Casa Loma Syndicate Centennial College RSS 1.0 Clint Roenisch Gallery Colborne Lodge RSS 2.0 Collections and Conservation Centre Atom David Dunlap Observatory Gallery TPW George Brown College Archives Gibson House Museum Glendon Gallery Goethe-Institute Grange HVACR Heritage Centre Canada Halton Region Museum Hamilton Artists Inc. Historic Fort York Historic Zion Schoolhouse Hockey Hall of Fame Hart House, University of Toronto The Law Society MacKenzie House Market Gallery Mercer Union Municipal Planning policy seemingly contradicts the Ministry of Metropolitan Toronto Zoo Housing policy alluded to in the new Ontario Building Code: Museum of Childhood National Ballet “Ontario is moving forward with a new Building Code. The 2006 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Building Code will: Ontario Crafts Council Ontario Jewish Archives 1. Facilitate the building of small care homes Ontario Science Centre 2. Make constructing small residential buildings easier Power Plant-Contemporary Art Gallery 3. Contain a new format that allows more creativity in building design Royal Canadian Military Institute while maintaining public safety Royal Ontario Museum Ryerson Polytechnical University Archives Salvation Army The new Building Code also encourages the construction of small Scarborough Historical Museum care homes by increasing flexibility in the design of such facilities. Sharon Temple Museum These changes will make it easier and more cost-effective to build Spadina Museum Textile Museum of Canada a new small care home or to create one by converting an existing Thomas Fisher Rare Book building, and they will help seniors, other Ontarians requiring Todmorden Mills attendant care, and people who have a developmental disability Toronto Aerospace Museum Toronto Writers Centre living in small group settings to remain near their families. Town of York http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_27485_1.html Trinity College Archives “One of the important lines here is "... and people who have a United Church of Canada YYZ Artists' Outlet developmental disability living in small group settings to remain in York Museum their neighbourhood and close to their families." York Quay Gallery Page 2 of 7 http://www.readingt.readingcities.com/index.php/toronto/comments/12765/ 03/05/08 8:03 PM their neighbourhood and close to their families." York Quay Gallery In order to contest the present city positions the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) the only avenue. The OMB is expensive. Therefore, Toronto GMAT & LSAT only the privileged few can attempt to legally over turn city Prep Live 1, 2 or 4 weekend planning policy at this time. Furthermore, such litigation is on a prep courses GMAT: April site-by-site basis. In other words, even if there is a victory for a 26- LSAT: May 3 granny flat or other alternative site architecture, the decision www.richardsonprep.com/416-410-PREP does not set precedent for other sites. This is not an acceptable option for the average citizen. Morrison Financial So, when the Committee of Adjustment turns down a granny flat Group or other rear yard alternatives, how is that refusal worded? Asset Based Financing Flexible Financial The usual city-planning refrain for refusal is the granny flat Solutions concept is not acceptable according to the Official Plan, that city www.morrisonfinancial.com planning thinks the granny flat (a.k.a. house behind a house) is not in keeping with the present development of the area. My Home Sweet Home Search over 22,000 In reality this neighbourhood has children using the lane as a real Homes and Condos Easy playground. There is an unofficial studio lane flat - read illegal - Interactive Maps Check it down further on the lane. There are all sorts of non-garage out functions happening within and attached to many of the nearby www.TorontosHOMEteam.com garages, etc. In this proposal the granny flat is NOT severed from the main lot. Water and sewer through the main house will service the flat. The flat's garbage pick up will be part of the existing house's street pickup program. The flat will be sprinklered. The flat is accessible from the street for fire and ambulance through existing side yard access. So, one could infer that planning would prefer a converted dwelling unit with many multiple units beside a single-family home. The reality is in order to make "small care (nursing) home" financially viable the building must have many units. That is what exists now. Hence the annual assisted care cost of $40,000 to $90,000 per year per resident depending on the size of the nursing home and the level of care the resident requires. The "Official Plan" is supposed to have neighbourhood secondary plans as a clarifying instrument. Planning has no secondary plan for this neighborhood. This secondary plan is supposed to address specific community trends and policy. In fact planning has no secondary plans for the vast majority of neighbourhoods in this city. This is fundamentally wrong and must not continue. Part of the result of planning negligence--not having secondary plans, is an ever increasing level of dissatisfaction and an increase in planning litigation from developers and citizens.