Jets at Toronto’s Island Airport will reverse decades of urban rejuvenation
Two veteran planners – Ron Soskolne & Howard Cohen – explain why the proposed expansion will reverse decades of urban rejuvenation on the waterfront.
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The Heliconian Literary Lecture Series is celebrating its 30th Anniversary!
This delightful program delivers 16 lectures from September 2026 to May 2027. It features a range of favourite authors and impressive newcomers whose content is timely, informative, and entertaining. Both fiction and non-fiction works are included. In-person lectures are filling quickly!
The trap of removing speed cameras
City data from such signs within 200 metres of fixed-location cameras were analyzed by The Globe and Mail. The results show that the number of people driving more than 15 kilometres an hour above the limit near the cameras dropped more than it did city-wide while the cameras were in place, then started to rise again once they were gone.
ABCRA welcomes Dr. Danielle Martin, the new Liberal MP for University–Rosedale
Congratulations on your election as the Member of Parliament for University-Rosedale. We look forward to working constructively together in the years ahead.
Interested in how your Municipal Taxes are spent?
After consultations with over 11,000 residents in October, the Budget Committee was presented with an operating budget of $18.9 billion and a 2026-2035 capital budget and plan of $63.1 billion, the largest 10-year capital plan in the City’s history, to address aging infrastructure and invest in housing, transit and water.
Do you care about our urban trees? Get involved in the City’s Tree Maintenance Review
The City of Toronto has launched a public survey as part of the City’s Tree Maintenance Review.
In less than 10 minutes you can make a difference to neighbourhood livability and the urban canopy.
ABCRA 2025 newsletter – a year in review
As we reflect on this year’s newsletter content, it’s clear how the ABC Residents Association helps to shape our community. These stories highlight our mission to protect character, enhance livability, and ensure that development also serves the public good. It is a constant challenge as the forces of intensification have remade some of our neighbourhoods in ways unimaginable 25 years ago.
One Bloor West named among the best in the world for 2025
A handful of notable new Toronto buildings were recently bestowed with awards recognizing their importance in several categories.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the winners of its 2025 Award of Excellence competition with plenty of local landmarks making the cut this year.
A safety win for Roxborough Street West: New temporary crosswalk coming soon
The City is moving forward with the installation of a temporary crosswalk west of Sam Tile and Paul Hahn Lane to keep pedestrians safe during the 1 Roxborough construction.
ABC Residents Association victory at the OLT!
It’s easy to think that you can’t win at City Hall – or the OLT – but ABC’s recent victory at the Ontario Land Tribunal is proof that opposing inappropriate developments and continuing to believe in the power of communities to shape the city of Toronto is worth the effort.
“No amount of massing refinements and architectural design can cure the fundamental flaw with respect to the 39-storey height of the Proposed Development, which does not conform to the City’s OP, the Downtown Plan, and the SASP 211*. Although there is a broad provincial policy which is supportive of intensification, this does not confer an unfettered right to height.”
~ Jean-Pierre Blais, Vice Chair of the Ontario Land Tribunal