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A New Park for Rivertowne!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the planning and design of our new park for Rivertowne.  After many months of community consultation construction is about to begin.  The park will offer many exciting features including community gardens, a water play area, a new playground and significant tree plantings.  To learn more about the new park, please view the presentation from our June 21st community meeting.

Heritage Walk The Danforth

Start: Jun 19 2011 - 11:00am
End: Jun 19 2011 - 1:00pm
The "Danforth" used to pass through open fields and market gardens. Today we find an interesting mix of structures and sites: from the home of William Peyton Hubbard, the first African-Canadian member of Toronto City Council, to the Music Hall Theatre.
Leaders:
Stephanie Thomas

Start Point: City Adult Learning Centre, 1 Danforth Ave (south side of Danforth, next to Prince Edward Viaduct) west of Broadview Subway Station

50 Curzon Community Meeting

In April, a number of residents attended an informal meeting with Urbancorp, the developer who had purchased St. Joseph's school. Urbancorp’s application has now been officially submitted to City Planning and the next step is a community planning meeting which will be held on Monday, June 27 th.

The school site has been vacant for many, many years  and the new development

55 Howie Community Meeting

On a cold and wintry night in 2010 you attended a meeting put on by Urbancorp, the developer who had purchased the former St. Anne’s school site from the TCDSB.  Urbancorp had wanted to get some feedback from the community prior to submitting their application for the rezoning and development of the former school property.

The school site has been vacant for a long time and any new development will

Update: Withrow Park OLA – Parks Meeting

Sandy Straw, Manager of Parks for the Toronto and East York District has sent this update to Councillor Fletcher.

"August 9, 2011

Dear Withrow Park Community

Re:  Withrow Park Off-Leash Area improvements

As promised at our very productive meeting of June 23, 2011, staff has carefully reviewed the ideas and comments from the meeting and from the various emails we received from those who could not attend. You are truly an

Temporary Pool Closures

There are two planned pool maintenance closures coming up this month:
Jimmie Simpson R.C - Monday, June 13, 2011 - Sunday, June 26, 2011
Frankland C.C - Thursday, June 15, 2011 - Monday, July 4, 2011
This is regular maintenance work and staff don't anticipate any delays.

Basement Flooding in Leslieville

Dear Friends,

Climate change is affecting us locally as well.

In July 2008, Leslieville and the Beaches experienced the effects of a freak rain storm. The sewers were overloaded and many basements were flooded.  I saw and heard of the great difficulties many residents experienced and advocated for an Environmental Assessment across the affected areas. This EA – Study Area 32 - was initiated in August 2009 with the initial Open House held in the fall of 2010. For more information please visit  http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects.htm

64 Colgate Avenue Plans and Community Meeting

To residents of the Carlaw and Dundas area

In 2002 the Official Plan Ammendment and Site Plan for the former Colgate factory lands were approved. The developer built the townhomes at Natalie Place and Logan and conveyed the land for building John Chang Park.

64 Colgate was approved for development but it was never built.

The developer is proceeding with the original approvals from 2002. This

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