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TTC Notice: Temporary Shuttle Bus on Local Streets

The TTC has sent out the following notice describing a temporary service change on Queen Street East, from Thursday June 30 to Tuesday July 5, 2011, between Greenwood and Broadview Avenue.

June 30 to July 5, 2011 501/301 QUEEN ROUTE During the period from 7 a.m. on Thursday, June 30 to 5 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, the TTC will be carrying out repairs to the streetcar tracks on Queen Street East just east of Greenwood Avenue. Note: In the event of inclement weather, the timeline for the work and bus looping is subject to change.

Happy Canada Day!

Canada Day Celebration in Riverdale Park East

Neighbours Together on Canada Day will host its 18th Canada Day celebration on July 1st in Toronto’s Riverdale Park, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.  The celebration is organized by my office, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (East Toronto) in conjunction with elected representatives, Peter Tabuns and Jack Layton.  businesses, and local community partners including Bridgepoint Health neighbouring the park.

Fairford Coxwell Intersection Follow Up Meeting

Update:

Thank you for attending the Fairford Coxwell Community meeting last week. John McGill, a traffic engineer specializing in pedestrian issues has received all of your feedback and will be considering it in the weeks to come.  I will continue to update the community on the progress of this intersection study.

 

THE PROBLEM:

Upper Gerrard is a major arterial road, designed to carry lots of commuter

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

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