PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING JUNE 18TH 2012

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING JUNE 18TH 2012

The heritage report that includes a listing of "views of natural heritage features" (Fourth Street is on it for its lake vista) was passed by the Planning and Growth Management committee on Monday, June 18th, 2012.

It was item 16.10 and the minutes and follow-up can be tracked here

The heritage report will be aired at an open house on September 10th, 2012 and should go to full City Council for approval in the Fall. If it passes, it will become a permanent revision to the City's Official Plan.

Peter Milczyn, the PGMC chair, also put forward this motion that will go before City Council on July 11/12, 2012. He said that it would start the ball rolling to provide stronger protection for lake windows than just heritage designations alone.

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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.