Development Proposal Under OMB Appeal – Make Your Voice Heard
Many of you have already received a notice by mail that the development proposal for 100 Wellesley Street East has been appealed to the OMB.
The 100 Wellesley Street East Tenant Association is opposed to the development and will take part in the OMB appeal process. This starts with a prehearing conference. We ask as many tenants as possible to join us at the prehearing conference in opposition to the proposal. The OMB needs to know that the people who will be most affected by the development are united in opposition to it.
So please join us on November 27th at 10:00 AM at the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (Toronto) 16th Floor, 655 Bay Street.
You are likely familiar with the proposal by now. If built, we would lose our trees and our green space. A ten-storey building would replace our front lawn on the south side of the building. The proposed building would be a scant 12.5 meters from the current building! Imagine our residents having to look at a newly constructed wall, instead of the green front lawn and beautiful trees. The lawn on the north side would suffer the same fate and have a ten-storey building on it, along with eight three-storey townhouses just east of Barbara Hall Park. As if the added congestion of 128 apartment units of this ill-conceived plan wasn't enough, during construction 23 apartments will have to be reconfigured and three apartments will be demolished. Unquestionably this development will diminish the quality of life for all current and future tenants in the building.
As Toronto's planning department reported to council:
The proposed development does not have regard for matters of provincial interest under the Planning Act, is not consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2014) and does not conform with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2017). The proposal does not conform to the City's Official Plan, in particular the Apartment Neighbourhoods, Healthy Neighbourhoods, Built Form or Natural Environment policies of the Official Plan. Further, the proposed development does not adequately address the City's Tall Building Design Guidelines, or the intent of those guidelines.
You can read the the planning department's most recent report in full at: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-117641.pdf