This coming Friday (May 21st) is the day that Dunpar is
scheduled to provide the reference plan that will come from the Land Title
process and an updated site plan with measurements and other statistics to the
other parties represented at the OMB hearing.
In recent weeks, residents have made submissions to the
City, Laurel Broten, MPP Etobicoke-Lakeshore, the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Michael Ignatieff’s office urging the province not to sell to the developer
any public land on this property. The expectation is that already publicly
owned land on the water’s edge should stay in the public realm for the future
development of parks and connecting trails.
To date, there has been no official response from the Province.
The City is saying that it is purely a
provincial matter, even though the City’s Official Plan calls for a continuous
waterfront trail from east to west and has partnered with the Province at Amos
Waites in Mimico on the linear waterfront park. The City’s new revised draft zoning bylaw clearly shows that much
of the property, as well as land on 41 and 33 Lake Shore Drive, is zoned Green (parkland), just like Prince of Wales and Cliff
Lumsden parks as well as the little parkette at the corner of Lake Shore Drive
and Fourth (see map above). One wonders
why the City is not putting more pressure on the Province to protect its zoned green
space.
We’ll see what happens on Friday!
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