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Toronto to Hold Consultations on Long-Term Financial Plan
The City of Toronto is inviting residents to provide input to help guide the development of a Long-Term Financial Plan. Community members will be able to offer their thoughts on spending priorities,...
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Noah Toly: What are City Rankings Good For?
It’s a typical Toronto experience. A ranking of global cities comes out and Toronto has fared well. Like clockwork, the deluge of Facebook posts begins. Everyone is so proud to live in this city and...
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Stafford Homes Launches Luxury Townhomes at Downsview Park
Last week, Stafford Homes' 155-unit Luxury Townhome Collection at Downsview Park launched in North York, with over 50% of the project's homes sold on opening night. Located at the southwest corner of...
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Small Changes May Have Big Impact for Toronto Apartments
A small project to integrate commercial spaces on the ground floor of a post-war apartment block may have a big impact for local residents, as a rezoning application for 24 Forest Manor Road, located...
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Torontonians Invited to Help Shape Future of Old City Hall
With the Provincial Courts that occupy the building set to relocate by 2021, Toronto's Old City Hall has been the topic of growing debate. As the end-date nears, the well-known heritage building has...
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Photo of the Day: Toronto Supermoon
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of Toronto's glowing skyline, with a dramatic appearance by yesterday's Supermoon. No, it wasn't completely clear hereabout, so the clouds made the appearance...
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Campaign aims to boost laneway housing in Toronto; Transit advocacy group blasts reduced TTC schedules as 'outrageous'; Ontario economic update includes small rebate for first-time homebuyers; and more...
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Completion in Sight at 383 Sorauren Avenue
At the meeting point of Toronto's Roncesvalles Village, Parkdale, and Brockton Village neighbourhoods, a new mid-rise condominium development is taking clear design cues from the early-1900s industrial...
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A "Splendid" Redevelopment Coming to Steeles Avenue East
For several decades now, the northern end of Toronto and neighbouring municipalities such as Markham have been experiencing significant population growth, due in large part to its popularity as a place...
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Call for Submissions: Buildings Completed in 2016
As 2016 draws to an end, and we inevitably look back on the changes the last twelve months have brought, UrbanToronto readers will no doubt be thinking about how this city has changed, too. With that...
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Dark Age Ahead: Understanding Jane Jacobs in the Trump Era
What would Jane Jacobs do? Among many urbanists, the playful question carries its religious connotations with more than a hint of sincerity. It's not just on T-Shirts, but in headlines, and in debates...
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Photo of the Day: South Core Afternoon
Today's Photo of the Day features a view of Toronto's growing South Core district. Submitted to the Sun Life Financial Tower & Harbour Plaza Residences Forum thread by contributor Mafaldaboy, this...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for November 16, 2016
Councillor proposes earmarking condo development fees for downtown infrastructure; Toronto condominium nominated for international architecture award; Honest Ed’s hosting three-day community party...
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Explainer: Legal Nonconforming Uses and Structures
Anyone who lives in Toronto sees growth pressure as they move about the city: places that were lively decades ago and then became obsolete over the years, are being purchased, demolished, and replaced...
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Parks Canada Names Eglinton Theatre a National Historic Site
During the first half of the 20th century, Eglinton Avenue through Midtown Toronto was a far cry from the bustling thoroughfare we know today. In the decades before the Yonge subway first opened in...
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M City: 15 Acres of Change in Mississauga's Evolving Downtown
On September 27th, a seemingly full-formed plan for a community of high-rise towers suddenly hit the news. Transforming a vacant 15-acre lot through a $1.5 billion redevelopment, the M City project...
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Mid-Rise Residential Development Proposed on Logan Avenue
Where Toronto's Leslieville and Riverdale neighbourhoods meet, a new stacked townhome and apartment development has recently been proposed. The site at 485 Logan Avenue with a lot area of approximately...
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Public Input Sought on Reforming the Ontario Municipal Board
Originally called the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board in 1906 and later renamed the Ontario Municipal Board in 1932, the OMB is an independent tribunal that makes decisions on municipal planning...
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Photo of the Day: Growth in the East Bayfront
Today's Photo of the Day overlooks Queens Quay East's run through Toronto's new East Bayfront community. Submitted to the Monde Forum thread by contributor Jasonzed, this west-facing view shows a few...
View ArticleDaily Headlines: News from the Internet for November 17, 2016
Here’s What the City’s Poverty Eradication Plan Has Accomplished in One Year; Indigenous heritage to be celebrated at revamped Ontario Place; Toronto's chief planner puts pressure on Tory over budget...
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