Fourth Street Lake Window - W.A.V.E. (Waterfront Access and Views for Everyone): HERITAGE OPEN HOUSE

Monday 17 September 2012

HERITAGE OPEN HOUSE - SEPTEMBER 10TH

Last Monday (September 10th, 2012), City staff held their open house/public consultation on the proposed revisions to the Heritage policies in the City's Official Plan. The report still lists views of natural heritage features to be preserved, including views of Lake Ontario from 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th streets, Miles Road, Lake Crescent, Royal York, Norris Crescent and Sand Beach Road. The report can be viewed at this link.
There was opportunity for the public to comment by putting post-its on the boards. All displayed comments regarding protection of these views were extremely favourable as were the results of conversations with three Heritage senior staff (apparently the word "vista" has been dropped because of multiple meanings).
All being well, the report, including Peter Milczyn's motion, goes back for consideration to Planning and Growth Management in October where it will be recommended and passed on to City Council in the same month for adoption.
After that, the preservation of views of cultural heritage landscapes will become "officially" part of the City's Official Plan.
Here are photos of some of the boards that were shown to the public.

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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.