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TIFF Yorkville Avenue street closure
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rogers, in collaboration with TIFF, is excited to bring the energy of TIFF back to its birthplace in Yorkville.
This letter is to let you know that there is a plan to close Yorkville Avenue, between Hazelton Avenue and Bellair Street to vehicular traffic to host a TIFF 50th Anniversary installation and event. The closure will be in effect from Thursday, September 4, 2025, to Monday, September 8, 2025, with reopening scheduled for the morning of September 8.
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Secondary Plan: Help plan our neighbourhood’s future
In the coming months, you’ll be seeing and hearing more about what’s called a “secondary plan” that will guide development in our neighbourhood for the next 25 years. You have a right, and hopefully a desire, to participate in advocating for the kind of community that you want to see. That’s why this communication is the first of three or four we’ll be sending to explain the various elements of the plan.
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Ford government cancels ‘clueless’ plan to allow housing on farmland after backlash
Re-zoning Toronto’s Neighbourhoods to permit more housing options
ABCRA co-chaired the FoNTRA Garden Suite working group to review the proposal and recommended improvements to the proposed bylaw. The Garden Suites Working Group with a number of ABCRA board members was actively involved in consultations with City Planning staff while developing recommendations.
ABCRA’s position on Laneway Suites
Bringing Laneway Suites to Toronto and East York District and Laneway Suites – A New Housing Typology for Toronto by Lanescape Evergreen was considered at the June 2017 Toronto and East York Community Council (TEYCC). ABCRA and other RAs expressed concerns about the specifics of the proposal and scope of consultation.
ABCRA provides comments to the City’s Bloor Yorkville Heritage Assessment
City of Toronto Heritage Planning utilizes Cultural Heritage Resource Assessments (CHRAs) to document and analyze an area’s history and ensure that properties of potential cultural heritage value or interest are appropriately identified, understood and conserved. Read our submission to the City, providing input and recommendations for the CHRA field study of the Bloor-Yorkville/North Midtown Area.
Basil Johnston Terrace
The proposed change to “Basil Johnston Terrace” would acknowledge and honour the First Nation presence and positive contribution within our community and our city. Basil Johnston Terrace would commemorate the significant contribution of a brilliant Ojibway author and educator, recognized in his 2015 Globe & Mail Obituary as the “foremost scholar of Anishinaabe life. Andin the Canadian Encyclopedia as “one of the foremost indigenous authors in Canada.”