{"id":2459,"date":"2007-11-06T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:44:45","slug":"dale-duncan-at-city-hall-condo-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/11\/06\/dale-duncan-at-city-hall-condo-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Duncan at City Hall: Condo Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not all wards are treated equally. Take Ward 20, watched over by well-known feather-ruffler Adam Vaughan. As of Oct. 27, the councillor had counted 71 different development applications in his ward, which includes a good chunk of the waterfront, Kensington Market and the Annex. Just to put that in perspective, Vaughan says that Councillor Shelley Carroll has been feeling overwhelmed by the number of developments taking place in her North York Ward. The grand total there: four.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Councillor Kyle Rae, myself and Pam McConnell have something like 80 per cent of the all development in the city happening in our wards,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Vaughan. And development is booming. Between 2001 and 2006, 17,000 residential units were built and newly inhabited downtown. Today, 39,000 new units are in the development pipeline for the same area.<\/p>\n

Each new development necessitates community meetings, bargaining with developers and extracting information from planners. Dense condo developments require figuring out how injecting thousands of new residents into a neighbourhood will affect traffic, transit and the public realm. Numerous other questions have to be asked as well. Will the new developments include affordable units or family units? Will they be environmentally friendly? The list goes on and on. Now imagine an understaffed planning department and a single overworked councillor having to ask all these questions every single time someone wants to build a new vertical subdivision. (In Vaughan’s case, that means hosting community meetings every day of the week.) No wonder sometimes it seems that the easiest thing to do is leave local residents out of the mix.<\/p>\n

Vaughan’s solution is to empower the people in his ward to do a bit of proactive planning to ensure that community concerns are put front and centre. To do this, he has enlisted the help of planning students from Ryerson and U of T to work with residents to produce community maps that show which areas are stable and which can handle growth. The students will also help compile \u00e2\u20ac\u0153report cards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that outline agreed-upon standards by which developers can expect residents to assess proposed developments. This way, developers wishing to save money by avoiding lengthy community consultation can incorporate residents’ ideas into their designs from the beginning. The city’s planning department, meanwhile, will have clear direction on where to work and what to achieve. And the number of community meetings will decrease. At least that’s the idea.<\/p>\n

In an era of cost containment, planning is an easy department to cut. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Save our secondary plans!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn’t have the same ring to it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153save our skating rinks!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is why creative ideas like Vaughan’s are so sorely needed.<\/p>\n

photo by Kevin Steele<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dale Duncan writes the City hall column for Eye Weekly. Spacing posts her columns each Thursday — or, in this case, later the next week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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