Attention Mayor Miller - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
Ref: 51 lake Shore Drive
Here is the essential question that the Lakeshore
community would like answered fully.
- Given that a significant portion of this waterfront site is zoned G (as are other sites adjacent and close by),
- Given that, when the
developer bought the property, the survey attached to the title showed
that he was buying only a portion of the land that is actually there and
not the land that is designated, for some good but yet unexplained
reason, as G zone or the Crown shoreline strip
- Given that the City’s G designation means “open space” and, generally, indicates parkland,
- Given that planning staff and the City Solicitor said they could not find the by-law that created the G zone on this site and then they admitted that there were no by-laws for all the other major land fill parks in South Etobicoke like Humber Bay Park West and East
- Given that our Official Plan calls for a continuous waterfront trail with connected parks
- Given that a developer has claimed it to build private houses on,
- Given that the City and any interested party has only until July 5th to object to that claim,
Do you think it is reasonable that City residents should
be happy with the explanation from the City Solicitor that this G zoning on
City maps, including the current one on the City’s website, is merely a slip of
the pen” and will not be defended by our City either by objection to the Land
Registry Office or at the recommencement of the OMB hearing?
A suggestion for the City .... object to the title
application or, at least, request an extension to the July 5th deadline to
fully investigate the probability that the City of Etobicoke zoned all this
waterfront land G because it was either illegal lakefill by shoreline owners or
was filled by the City after storm damage or to create public land and has
been set aside for future waterfront parkland.
See www.fiftyonelakeshoredrive.blogspot
for background
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