by Suzanna Pereira | Sep 2, 2021 | Events, News
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by Suzanna Pereira | Sep 2, 2021 | Housing and Development, Issues
The City plans to amend zoning by laws creating regulations that would allow home owners to build detached dwellings located in the back yard of a detached, semi detached, town house, or low rise dwelling. The BCNA sent written submissions to the City’s Planning and...
by Suzanna Pereira | Sep 2, 2021 | Housing and Development
The BCNA engaged in consultations with City of Toronto officials outlining a plan to increase affordable housing by “upgrading” multi tenant housing (MTH) lifting a moratorium in North York, and “increasing enforcement”. The BCNA raised concerns that enforcement...
by Suzanna Pereira | Sep 2, 2021 | Housing and Development
The BCNA continues to work with our Member of Parliament to protect our most vulnerable neighbours , and were pleased to hear that Stan Cho continues to listen to residents successfully securing a deferral of the Ministerial Zoning Order (“MZO”) which would have...
by Suzanna Pereira | Sep 1, 2021 | Issues, Transportation
Councillor Shelly Carroll has been working with advocacy groups to support a permanent lane reduction on Finch Ave which would eliminate the only passing lane. In other jurisdictions these lanes are coupled with automatic bus lane enforcement cameras to generate...
by Suzanna Pereira | Aug 31, 2021 | News
The federal government is by passing the Province of Ontario and has made available $400 million ATF to accelerate active transportation, through the expansion of bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks and in many cases reduced lanes of traffic. Its objective is to improve...
by Suzanna Pereira | Aug 31, 2021 | Housing and Development
The City is planning for the eventual elimination of Centerpoint Mall, converting Dumont street into an arterial road, the expropriation of homes, and the elimination of lanes of traffic on Yonge Street & Willowdale Ave. for wider sidewalks/bicycle lanes. The City...
by Suzanna Pereira | Aug 30, 2021 | News
In October 2020, the Federal Government bypassed the Province of Ontario to accelerate the development of modular housing for the homeless in residential neighborhoods across the country providing $1 billion to immediate support to municipalities, including Toronto by...
by Suzanna Pereira | Aug 25, 2021 | News
The public comment period for the development of Transform TO NetZero Strategy, which was developed to support federal GHG targets, closed on August 4, 2021 with only 1000 survey submissions. Given that Toronto has a population of 2.93 million, the BCNA has concerns...
