LINKS TO DOCUMENTS

Saturday, 16 June 2012

LINKS TO DOCUMENTS

Windows on the Lake
Documentation of this initiative from the former City of Etobicoke
(Fourth Street listed first in Phase 1)
1994-1996

Heritage Policies staff report
Proposed revision to the City's Official Plan with regard to heritage issues - the listing of "vistas of natural features of significant cultural heritage".
Fourth Street shown as a significant vista of Lake Ontario requiring identification and protection (page 22, map page 23)
June 2012

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BACKGROUND

We are a community group of residents whose goal is to lobby the City of Toronto Parks department to take over the remaining publicly-owned lakefront road ends in South Etobicoke that are not yet official parks or parkettes and complete the vision of the former “Windows on the Lake” initiative which dovetail with waterfront access goals reflected in our City's current Official Plan. Fourth Street parkette was to have been the first project under that plan with a landscape design drawn up and ready to go. It was stalled and disappeared during the amalgamation of the City's former boroughs. But, since then, many road ends (unassumed road allowances) have been taken over by City Parks who improved them and now maintain them. But, five road ends, including Fourth Street, remain unclaimed and subject to illegal encroachment. Along the shore line in south Etobicoke, of the forty-eight roads that end at the lake, only five do not end at a waterfront park or parkette (Fourth Street, Eleventh street, Twenty-Fifth street, Thirty-Ninth street and Fortieth street). Less than 5% do not end in a waterfront park or parkette. This is unfair and needs to be corrected.