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1134-1140 Yonge Street – Proposed Development Re-Submission

Published on: April 2, 2024 | Last Updated on: September 4, 2024

At the ABCRA & Community Planning meeting on February 26, 2024, and again at our meeting on April 02, 2024, it was revealed that the developer for 1134-1140 Yonge Street has approached community planning with a request for an additional 3 floors, and is planning to submit a proposal through the Committee of Adjustment.

A 3-floor addition constitutes a 33% height increase and we believe should not be considered minor. We believe that the developer is manipulating the planning system to get around the LPAT settlement and increase the height of the project in a way that protects them from further appeal.

Toronto can learn from Hoboken and make Avenue Road safe

March 8, 2024

The death of an 89-year-old pedestrian in 2017 was the last straw for the mayor of Hoboken, N.J. ““I felt it wasn’t acceptable.”
Hoboken, New Jersey hasn’t had a traffic fatality in 7 years.

Running below one of Toronto’s most historic neighbourhoods, the pathway located on the south side of the road can be followed from Park Road to Bayview Avenue.

The ravine next to Rosedale Valley Road is an unusual escape in the middle of Toronto

February 18, 2024

Rosedale Ravine Lands isn’t tucked away in a forest like some of the other walks in the city but the stretching pathway that follows the Rosedale Valley Road makes for a picturesque stroll in its own right.

Running below one of Toronto’s most historic neighbourhoods, the pathway located on the south side of the road can be followed from Park Road to Bayview Avenue.

Someone in Toronto just bought a huge $18M condo and it’s pretty spectacular

Published on: February 8, 2024 | Last Updated on: February 18, 2024

One of the most expensive condo units in Toronto history has been purchased for a whopping $18 million — and it doesn’t even exist yet.

An undisclosed buyer has scooped up a luxurious penthouse unit on the top floor of a proposed boutique condo development at 1086 Yonge Street, known as One Roxborough West.

The Annex Residents’ Association features Councillor Saxe in action at City Hall

Published on: January 31, 2024 | Last Updated on: April 27, 2024

Councillor Dianne Saxe at Planning and Housing Committee, January 29, 2024

Councillor Saxe did the most magnificent job fighting for the Annex at this past Monday’s Planning and Housing Committee meeting – a committee on which she doesn’t actually sit. We’ve got an articulate legal mind as our representative. If you’ve got some time, then watch the YouTube archive of the meeting to watch the discussion as it unfolds and to see her champion our interests.

University of Toronto constructing Canada’s tallest academic timber building

Published on: January 18, 2024 | Last Updated on: April 28, 2025

Academic Wood Tower - 14 storey wood building at University of Toronto

The stunning Academic Wood Tower has started to take shape in the Bloor Street cultural corridor, where it will serve as a beacon for green architecture – and provide high-quality spaces for three of the university’s faculties and schools.

Skyscraper makes the top 10 in list of most exciting projects set to complete in 2024

Published on: January 16, 2024 | Last Updated on: February 9, 2024

The One - rendering showing building in Toronto skyline

Construction edutainment outlet The B1M recently released a video rounding up what it considers to be the most exciting projects due to complete in 2024.

Among them, the monolithic 91-storey skyscraper under construction at Yonge and Bloor, known as The One, took the #7 position and was the only North American construction project to make the top-ten ranking.

Five neighbourhoods in Toronto expected to transform the most in 2024

January 13, 2024

Yorkville Toronto high rise and street corner.

The 2020s will be remembered as a historic period of transformative change in Toronto thanks to the forthcoming completion of new transit lines and some of the tallest buildings under construction in all of Canada. But that’s just the bigger picture, and a handful of specific neighbourhoods can expect some big changes in 2024. Here …

What good are new noise bylaws if Toronto doesn’t enforce the rules it already has?

Published on: January 13, 2024 | Last Updated on: February 1, 2024

The city of Toronto has no shortage of rules and regulations. According to a bylaw registry on the city’s website with information that dates all the way back to 1844, Toronto has 164,323 bylaws on the books, with more always coming: Toronto city council tacked on 1,334 more bylaws last year.

What there is a real shortage of, though, is an effective strategy to enforce many of those bylaws.

ABC advocates for improved noise regulations

Published on: January 11, 2024 | Last Updated on: January 13, 2024

The livability of the City is being eroded by excessive unrestricted noise and a lack of enforcement for the rules that we do have.

This review is important in order to address some of the deficiencies in the 2019 update and help create a policy that establishes clear, meaningful limits on noise and adequate, efficient enforcement. ABCRA did attend multiple community consultations and submitted comments and concerns that we hoped would be addressed through the staff recommendations.