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No. 39 • June 2015
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Mr. Leaside 1943-2015
He died on the baseball diamond David Stickney died on Monday, May 11 of heart failure at Goulding Park in North York while at a game of the girls softball team of York Mills Collegiate Institute that he helped to coach. He was known to some as Stick (origins obvious), and to others as Tank, from both his effectiveness at blocking home plate, and as a football lineman despite his diminutive stature. He was Mr. Stickney to the generations of Leaside High students to whom he taught math. And he was Mr. Leaside to so many others. Several hundred friends and neighbours filled the William Lea Room at Leaside Gardens on Monday, May 18 to pay their respects. The funeral service was to be held at Leaside United Church, Monday, May 25 (after our deadline). ■
How did David Stickney become Mr. Leaside? By NICK MITCHELL So, how did The Stick [a.k.a. Le Baton] acquire the nickname Mr. Leaside? Let me count the ways. David Stickney grew up in Leaside, attending local schools, as well as Leaside United Church, and participated in community baseball and hockey. Some older Leasiders might remember him delivering the newspaper or their dry cleaning from Bassett’s. He started high school in 1957 and threw himself into every activity. He loved math and was inspired by Bill “Pops” Stafford who also coached him on Leaside’s football team. Dave, despite his relative light weight, played on the line and was given the nickname Tank, a moniker still used by his contemporaries. David was evidently respected by his peers and in 1961 he was elected
school captain. At the University of Toronto he completed a degree in engineering but his mind was soon directed to teaching. He started his teaching career in Oshawa, but two years later returned to Leaside where he remained until his retirement in 2001. He was a much loved and respected teacher. He made math clearer, fun and practical for his students, and gave a large part of his day to providing extra help for math strugglers. He kept doing this right up until the current school year for both Leaside and York Mills students. This was a free service. David and Janet were married in the early ’70s. They spent their first summers travelling and hiking around the world. I met David in 1973, my first year of teaching at LeaTHE STICK, Page 4
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The annual Magical Gardens of Leaside tour is back, on Saturday, June 20. Leaside Garden Society members Margaret Rousseau and Eileen Patchett have lined up seven homes for the self-guided tour, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. On display will be a monkey puzzle tree and a needle palm. Tour tickets must be bought in advance. There will also be a flower show the same day at Leaside Library noon to 4 p.m. ___ Moms to be‌ and More at the corner of Bayview and Manor is gone, but owner Karen Becker is still around. She’s opening another store in the same location. It’s the seventh location in Canada for West Coast Kids, with similar merchandise to Moms. ___ Our columnist Geoff Kettel is a proud father because his daughter Emily, who recently left Leaside to live in the U.S., is one of a few marathon runners who completed both the Boston run and the Big Sur in Monterey, California, six days apart, earlier this year. ___
Ninety-eight spaces for parking bicycles and 97 for cars! That the proposal from builder Shane Baghai for his property on Southvale beside the Leaside Arena. He is asking for an eight-storey building. ___ The owner of 27 Fleming, the oversized house were construction was ordered stopped by the city, has promised the Committee of Adjustment to tear it down and put up a two-storey home. The move follows crowded meetings of angry neighbours who complained the previous owner did not build according to approved plans. ___ Leaside High School graduate Mike Bradwell is retiring after six seasons as a wide receiver with the CFL Toronto Argonauts. During one of those years he helped win the Grey Cup. He is a civil engineer and a part-time model. ___ Our councillor, Jon Burnside, has taken to heart the growing Leaside effort to clean up litter and has asked Mayor John Tory to let him lead the city’s efforts. It’s a go, but no plans ready yet. ___ $500 reward for the return of a big black back pack and a black brief case, or information, stolen from a car in Leaside. No questions asked. 516-425-9737. â–
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April was, well, mediocre By WILL ASHWORTH The Leaside Stock Index’s April performance can best be described as mediocre, dropping 0.62 percent, excluding currency, and 3.3 percent including the exchange, with a good deal of the loss due to an appreciating Canadian dollar, which gained six cents against the U.S. greenback. The LSI’s two benchmark ETFs — SPDR S&P 500 ETF and S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index Fund — by comparison gained 1.5 percent in April, excluding currency, but thanks to the Canadian dollar the benchmark ETFs saw an actual decline of 1.7 percent, half the LSI decline. Year-to-date through the first four months of 2015, the LSI is up 1.7 percent excluding currency and 3.3 percent including currency, compared to 2.6 percent excluding currency for the benchmark ETFs and 4.6 percent including currency. With two-thirds of the year still left to play out it’s possible the LSI will overtake the benchmarks by the fall.
The big winners in April when it comes to American stocks were Starbucks and Dunkin Brands (Baskin Robbins) up 4.7 percent and 9.6 percent respectively. Year-to-date both have delivered double-digit, 20 percent-plus returns. A third stock, Restaurant Brands International (Tim Hortons), also saw a 1.4 percent gain in April and is now up 8.2 percent on the year, suggesting the coffee craze is still going strong helping to deliver most of the LSI’s growth in 2015. In terms of the top performing Canadian stocks, the banks had a good bounce back month with the TD and Bank of Nova Scotia gaining 3.7 percent and 5.8 percent respectively in April with both stocks moving into positive territory on the year. Also doing well in April was RioCan with a 3.5 percent gain putting it in second spot for the top performance year-to-date for Canadian stocks, up 13 percent, four percentage points behind Dollarama. ■
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side. We soon became friends. He and Janet had just hiked around my home County Dorset and he shared my love of Hardy. He was my guest speaker, all dressed up in local Dorset garb, when I was discussing The Mayor of Casterbridge with my students. In the ’70s he would be on the PA soliciting volunteers to rake leaves for Leaside’s seniors. He would then appear on stage at a school assembly dressed up as a blood corpuscle in an effort to solicit blood donors. On weekends he would lead Bruce Trail hikes for any interested students as well as hosting gatherings at his farm. He was also a leader for youth meetings at the United Church. His other contributions to Leaside High School included coaching and supervising a myriad of extracurricular activities; headship of the math department, a role he took over from “Pops” Stafford; as well as coordinator of the Leaside Scholarship Committee, an important role which he reluctantly gave up just three years ago. He was also in charge of the Staff Flower and Gift Fund and solicited funds from all his colleagues to provide gifts and cards to provide comfort for the bereaved and sick, and respect for retirees. Janet and David have two children both former Leaside students. Irene runs a sewing and dress design school while Eric has run a Leaside baseball program for several years. David and Janet provide testimony to the fact that two people can live apart but still maintain friendship, regular family meetings, and mutual respect and support. This is unusual but admirable. Since retirement, The Stick has been as involved in Leaside as ever. One of his hobbies was collecting wood from Mount Pleasant Cemetery and other venues, cutting and splitting it – an activity he found therapeutic – and then giving all the logs away to friends and neighbours. Every time there was a big snow fall, he would be seen shovelling the steps from Cameron Cres. to Talbot Park, another community service for which he demanded no recognition. In the last few years, David has been a key member of The Leaside Sports Hall of Fame Committee recognizing our local sports heroes and organizing the induction ceremonies. He has also been a regular usher at
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Nick Mitchell taught with David Stickney at Leaside High School from 1973; and remained a close friend even after they both retired. By CAROLYN SNIDER David Stickney (always Mr. Stickney to me) was the quintessential teacher. His passion for the profession shone through everything he did. He was motivating and made all of us feel valued. I especially remember his encouragement – whether on the softball diamond, from the back of the auditorium when performing in a high school musical or down at UofT while participating in a math competition. I have so many fond memories of Mr. Stickney – as a math teacher who somehow made calculus fun! I remember walking into a portable for class and he was up on a desk rowing – we spent part of the class working through problems like, if he is rowing at 5km/hr and the current is against him at 3km/hr, how fast is he going? I remember his smile – his eyes lighting up when I saw him on Bayview years after graduating. I feel lucky to have had him as a teacher. Leaside was lucky to have him as a citizen.
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Dr. Carolyn Snider grew up in Leaside and knew David Stickney all her life; she is now a pediatrician in Winnipeg. By JOHN PARKER I can’t remember how long ago Dave told me he had retired. But of course he never really did retire; he just changed the pattern of the work he did and never stopped doing. In the same way, I don’t fully accept the news that he has died. Although he won’t any longer be riding past my house on that bike of his that
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Leaside United Church. David and I stayed close friends since we retired from teaching. We have walked over a thousand miles together and explored every ravine and footpath in Toronto and many beyond. We have shared wonderful memories of Leaside, of the thousands of students we taught and of all our former respected colleagues. David was the kindest and most generous friend I have ever had. It is so sad and ironic that the heart that he shared with so many and that gave so many joy, inspiration and comfort, finally let him down. Vive Le Baton!
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I am sure he had since high school – wearing that tweed jacket that is not much newer – his booming voice will continue to echo in my ears, and our many conversations about matters local and otherwise will continue to play out in my mind. Dave was the kind of neighbour we should all strive to be: engaged but not judgemental; helpful but not interfering; knowledgeable but not condescending. His life was all too short, but it was lived honourably and well, with not one nanosecond of it not put towards one worthy purpose or another. It would serve as an inspiration to anyone. More than anyone else I know, Dave Stickney represents Leaside’s past, present, and future: He grew up here and carried with him the firsthand memories of seven decades of an active life lived here. He continued to be a valued contributor to the local community right up to his final breath. And the countless young lives he touched as a local teacher and community leader will carry the memory of his genuine personal warmth and the lessons of his vast knowledge and wisdom for years to come.
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Ray White, former arena board chair, knew David Stickney as a coach, teacher and friend. By KATHY SEON PEARCE David held firmly to values that he grew up with in the 1950s and ’60s, values about loving family and friends, about generosity of spirit and helpfulness to one’s community, about service to church, school, sports teams and other community institutions and about living his life without the faintest gap between what he said and what he did. David gave generously of his time and kindness – far beyond the calls of duty or friendship – to my parents, Eric and Dorothy, in their old age. He
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supported and cared about them like they were his own parents, who had been gone for so long from his own life. He spent many hours just visiting and chatting. But he also spent many hours cutting the grass, cutting or delivering firewood, shovelling the snow, helping them to stay, as he understood they wanted to, in the house they lived in for so long. There were few days of any week when David did not call in. David was never a big note-taker about what he did or whom he had helped. He just got on and did the things that mattered – even if that meant some inconvenience or cost to him. Of course, he would just say that it was just something he should do as a good neighbour and good citizen. To him that was just part of being a member of the Leaside community. It brought him a lot of pleasure and satisfaction, but he also gave so much to so many people. In any of our lives there are only a few truly wonderful, deep friends. David was one of those for all of us. No one can say better about a man than that.
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We paired him up with my son Ryan, a former student of Dave’s at LHS, to manage the parking and traffic and two better guys we couldn’t have picked, two math whizzes to put some order and control in what could have been a chaotic scene, and for Dave the added bonus was getting to interact with everyone who drove in and stepped out of their car. Dave thoroughly enjoyed his day as did Ryan, former teacher and former student working side by side on a great day for the community.
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Deadline to nominate someone for induction in the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame and as Leaside’s Athlete of the Year is Friday, June 5. www.LeasideSports.com. The new inductees will be announced in September. The 2015 induction ceremony will be on Friday, Nov. 20 in the William Lea Room at Leaside Arena. Ten inaugural inductees were honoured in 2013, including three – Peter Mahovlich Jr., Dr. Tom Pashby and Dr. Ron Taylor – who are also members of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. Four new inductees were added in 2014. Olympic swimmer Martha McCabe was Leaside’s Athlete of the Year in 2013. Speed skater Ayanna Badali was named in 2014. â–
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The churros are coming! The churros are coming… the churros are here in Leaside! They started showing up in the odd spot in Toronto a few years ago. Now they’re right here at a restaurant that’s part of a big U.S. chain, the Local Public Eatery, the new place at Laird and McRae that used to be the CIBC building. Olga Nikiforova, Millwood Rd., knows them well. Her two companions, Janice Canning, Randolph Rd., and Brenda French, Donegall Dr., were happy to share one order even though “we couldn’t quite finish our main courses,” said Canning. “And it turns out that Olga is something of a churros aficionado.” Canning: “I’d never tasted them before or even heard of them. “A single order was enough for the three of us. There were five long, thin pieces of dough, something like a bread stick and a bit looser than a doughnut. They were lukewarm, sprinkled with sugar and came with a hazelnut-chocolate sauce for dipping. They were quite lovely!”
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The BIA's efforts to improve parking issues along Bayview should not just focus on cars. Leaside is home to many cyclists (and the Leaside chapter of one of Toronto's largest cycling clubs, Morning Glory). Yet, despite the fact that the sidewalks were recently redone by the city, there is a serious shortage of bike racks along Bayview. Our family bicycles to Bayview almost every weekend to shop, grab a coffee etc., but often cannot find a place to lock our bikes. Many times we have to lock them to trees (which is bad for the trees) or lean them against buildings (which is not secure and can impede access for others). Many areas that have branded themselves as "cyclist friendly" have seen an increase in business. The lack of bike parking on Bayview is a real lost opportunity that hopefully the BIA will seek to address. Reema Khawja, Vanderhoof Ave.
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Leaside bungalows continue to set records. A North Leaside bungalow on a 36-foot frontage sold for $1,418,000 in April, well over asking price. Another North Leaside bungalow sold for almost $100,000 more in April than a similar bungalow sold for in March. A South Leaside storey-and-a half on a 39.9-foot frontage sold for $1,626,000, as land. There was no house inspection. So far this year homes have been selling at an average of 6.2 percent over asking price. The highest in a multiple offer situation was 31 percent and the lowest was 19 percent below the asking price. With the historically low interest rates we are sure to see more multiple offer situations and strong demand for our rare for sale Leaside properties. In April this year, 23 homes changed hands in Leaside, which was 17.9 percent fewer than the 28 homes that sold in April 2014. There was a significant lack of inventory this past winter and leading into spring. Detached home sale volumes are down by 44 percent during the first four months of 2015. Only 35 detached homes have traded hands compared to 63 during the same time last year. Semi-detached home sale volumes are also down by 8.3 percent in 2015. Here is a 12-month look at the rolling averages of Leaside and Bennington Heights home sales, comparing the sales of the past 12 months with the previous 12 months. SALES VOLUMES CHANGES All Homes Sales – down 2.8%, to 208 sales Detached Home Sales – up 2.5%, to 162 sales Semi-Detached Home Sales – down 28.8%, to 37 sales DOLLAR VALUE CHANGES All Home Values – up 7.7%, to $1,334,742 Detached Home Values – up 3.5%, to $1,454,689 Semi-Detached Home Values – up 10.1%, to $841,727 __ Jethro Seymour is a broker at Johnston & Daniel. All figures are from the Toronto Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service. ■
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14 Leasiders have come out in force and in voice to a succession of community consultation meeting regarding private sector development applications in Leaside. In the past six months such meetings have included the following proposals: • a seven-storey seniors’ condominium and eight-storey rental retirement building at 146150 Laird Dr.; • an eight-storey condominium on the west side of Bayview between Soudan and Hillsdale; • a proposed Costco on the Coca-Cola site north of Overlea (a meeting to consider additional parking); • a major development to replace and redevelop Sunnybrook Plaza with a twin-tower (19 and 13 storeys) condominium complex. As well, applications have been submitted for two other proposals in the area: a major five-tower proposal along the west side of Brentcliffe between Eglinton and Vanderhoof and a nine-storey, 100-unit condominium at the corner of Southvale and the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens access road. Community meetings are expected to be called shortly for these two new applications. Leaside faces major planning challenges and Leasiders are starting to take notice. It is noticeable when there is standing only room at the meetings… when there is no comment or question in support of the proposal from those in attendance… and when the questions are posed by a well-briefed, passionate and eloquent resident who has been here five years, not 25 years. Yes, it is noticeable when there is a crop of new leaders like Kate Whitehead, Elaine Biddis and Connor Turnbull. Kate Whitehead, who spoke forcefully at the Sunnybrook meeting, is a mother of three who lives on Bessborough in North Leaside and has started the Preserve Leaside group to (what else?) preserve Leaside character. Elaine Biddis, an engineer, who also spoke at the meeting, has written and submitted a report, Neighbourhood concerns with construction of the high rise condo at the NE corner
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Saving old Leaside of Bayview and Eglinton by Riocan”. Connor Turnbull, however, is occupied not with the new developments on the main streets and avenues as much as the interior of the neighbourhood. Connor is an architectural historian, and mother of two who, coming to Toronto from San Francisco, was charmed by the small town character of Leaside. Connor, together with Kim Auchinachie, co-chair of Leaside Matters, are part of a new group that aims to perpetuate and expand upon the legacy of the Leaside 100 group, with a mandate to support localism and preserve Leaside character. They are producing a booklet called The Cultural Heritage Landscape of Leaside (more on this next month), and a Leaside bag. Well, you say – there have been groups before, formed to fight development in Leaside. Whatever happened to Leaside Unite, which arose to fight the Smart Centres north development between Wicksteed and Vanderhoof on the east side of Laird? Leaside Unite fought the good fight until they realised they could not win at the OMB, and they folded their
tent into the LPOA. And the LPOA got three savvy new directors on its board. Will this be different? We shall see, but it is clear that Leaside is becoming a militant community, and the ever vigilant LPOA is joined by other groups and individuals. The more the merrier I say! The learning has been to get involved early and deeply in the planning process, in both the staff phase (the city planning staff report) and the political phase (when the report goes to city council). Getting a negative (to the development) staff report means that if the proponent appeals then at least the city will be at the OMB. But if there is a supportive staff report, even if council votes against, the city will not be at the OMB, and the residents will have a tough time. We found that out at 2 Laird (the former post office site) -- in spades. So will the new militancy lead to a different outcome? We don’t know, but it is clear that right now the residents can work to balance the power scales, and they need to do this both by holding city staff to account and by letting the councillor know where they stand. This is democracy and deserves all of our support. Of course there is a flaw to all these efforts to fight individual developments. That is that while many of us in Leaside were asleep, the city was passing special policies and zoning by-law amendments to allow new “by right” developments. Once this was approved the developers had a new floor on which to ask for much more. In our area these special policies and re-zonings were made last summer as part of the Eglinton Connects plan for intensification along the Eglinton corridor: • special policies under the Official Plan facilitating mid-rise development around the Bayview-Eglinton intersection, and for townhouse development on the south side of Eglinton between Leaside High School and Hanna and • re-zonings to permit mixed-use, mid-rise development to a maximum FIGHTING, Page 18
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Saving old Leaside Sunnybrook Plaza, the first collection of stores in the city with a parking lot out in front, was opened on the northeast corner of Bayview and Eglinton in 1952. The strip plaza was a departure from the “main street” style of retail street, like Bayview, by catering to cars as much as to customers. It signaled that Leaside was “modern”, a herald of developments that in future, like Don Mills, would be carcentric, and low density suburban. Jane Pitfield in her book, Leaside, notes that it was also the last piece of Leaside to be developed. But times change, and now, 60 years later, the planning mantra is for intensification. If RioCan’s application is approved, Sunnybrook Plaza would be demolished and replaced with a pair of residential towers, with some retail at grade. One tower, situated closest to the Bayview and Eglinton intersection, would be 19 storeys (66 metres) high, with a second tower on the east side of the property proposed as 13 storeys (50 metres) high. The two buildings would contain a total of 426 dwelling units and 420 parking spaces with 397 located in a two-level below grade garage, and 23 surface spaces. Retail space onsite would drop from 4,718 square metres (50,766 square feet) to 2,316 square metres, or just over 24,900 square feet. Currently there are 88 surface parking spaces, 79 of which are located at the front and nine behind. The northwest corner of the intersection will be the site of a secondary station of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT's rapid transit line now under construction along Eglinton and planned to open in 2020. The lands are currently designated Mixed Use in the Official Plan, and city council approved a Special Policy Area under the Official Plan for the Bayview and Eglinton lands in 2014, as proposed in the Eglinton Connects Plan. So what are the key elements of RioCan’s proposal that grab the attention of this community advocate? • The Eglinton Connects Plan assessed this site as being “predomi-
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nantly a mid-rise site”. However 19 storeys and even 13 storeys is highrise, not mid-rise. While “predominantly mid-rise” may be construed to open the door to high-rise, city planning staff contend that they intended this possibility to apply to the larger north-west corner, not the north-east site. • However, more fundamentally, there is no apparent justification for high-rise development in this area. The reality is that Bayview and Eglinton is just another station on the Eglinton LRT – there is no higher order transit contemplated on Bayview, and no transit hub. • The massing, density and height of the proposed development is precedent setting, and lacks appropriate transition to the existing midrise developments immediately to the north and the single family homes of North Leaside to the north and east. • While the land use designation in the Official Plan is Mixed Use, the proposal is heavily weighted to residential use, with only a small (reduced) retail component, and a complete absence of office use. So while there will be over 400 residential units creating a need for all kinds of services, such as schools (there is already a lack of capacity in existing schools in the area for any additional
school children to be generated by the project) and medical facilities, there are no ongoing employment opportunities, other than the minimal amounts (like security, maintenance) that a residential development provides. • The lack of provision for offices is a growing concern in large scale developments (for example the North York Centre, Yonge and Eglinton Centre), and we are clearly heading in the same direction in our area. Ultimately the lack of balance in land use affects municipal finances, so it creates problems for the city also. • We might learn something from Frederick Todd who in 1912 planned Leaside as a “complete community” which paid equal attention to residential and industrial areas. The Town of Leaside was in an enviable financial position throughout most of its history, which was mainly due to its balanced residential/commercial mix. • The amount of traffic generated by the project is a concern, despite the premise of the application being in proximity to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Good planning of the public realm and streetscape, and building in from the beginning a strong role for active transportation (walking, biking) are essential. For example bicycle parking should be fully at ground level (not underground) so that bicycling may be readily employed by residents and visitors. • The proposal includes a roadway around the rear of the project, creating a potential by-pass of the Bayview/Eglinton intersection, quickly attracting flow-through traffic. Also as a private road it would not be regulated or traffic rules enforced by the city. • Finally, what does the heritage SUNNYBROOK, Page 18
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significance of the site as the first shopping plaza in Ontario mean for the redevelopment? Well, in my view it does not mean that there can be no development. Undoubtably the site has undergone many changes since 1952, for example, none of the original storefronts remain. For me it is the openness of the site and the quasi-public space nature of the parking lot that we should strive to retain and enhance. We can expect development across the street at the Metro site, and we need to ensure that redevelopment creates public open space at each corner. The resulting matching plazas could be used to re-create something similar to the annual Yonge Fest that used to occur several years ago at Yonge and Eglinton. But that was before RioCan redeveloped the plaza on the northwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton, and put the public open space on the fourth floor! The community consultation that took place on April 28 was an opportunity to raise some of these points, and it was taken. So where does the development stand currently? RioCan has heard from the public so we will see what their response is, whether to make changes to accommodate the many community concerns already expressed, or to march off to the OMB, like their fellow developer-owners at 146-150 Laird. ■
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of between 22.5 metres (seven storeys) and 25.5 metres (eight storeys) along Eglinton between Sutherland and Laird, and to a maximum of 25.5 metres (eight storeys) on the northeast corner of Laird and Eglinton. The LPOA in its wisdom appealed these to the OMB, and now is being invited to pre-OMB hearing meetings with the city staff to discuss its concerns. The LPOA’s OMB appeals may turn out to be prescient, now with the private development applications, particularly those at Bayview (Sunnybrook Plaza) and Brentcliffe, looking egregious. The city’s actions appear, more and more, to be hasty and unwise. So let’s rejoice for our new community activists, but let’s us also thank the LPOA for its continuing vigilance. ■
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Kate Whitehead spoke April 28 to a full William Lea Room meeting called to discuss Sunnybrook Plaza plans.
‘Make it right-sized, not might-sized’ My name is Kate Whitehead. I am a mother of three and a resident of Leaside. I live on Bessborough Dr. in North Leaside. The proposed high rise at Sunnybrook Plaza threatens the very fabric of our community. Leaside is not downtown Toronto. Anyone who has driven downtown, with all of the massive high-rise development occurring there, may have noticed the same thing I have. The city is getting dark. As walls of condos fill in every available space in the streetscape one is left with an impression that they are driving through a tunnel. A tunnel where every building looks the same. A tunnel that blocks out the sun. Leaside is not downtown Toronto. Leaside is a community where children can ride their bikes to their soccer games at Leaside High. It is a place where you can grow a garden. It is a place where you know your neighbours. It is a place where, during the ice storm, a group of neighbours spontaneously arranged themselves to walk the streets with willing hands and saws to clear the debris from people’s lawns. It is a safe place to retire. It is a safe place to raise a family. If developments like this one are allowed to proceed, this will end. It will end and with it will go something that is very valuable to the residents of the entire city. Something that makes Toronto somewhere you would want to live. Do we want Leaside to simply become part of the tunnel? It seems to me that the city is in an ever accelerating process of abolishing neighbourhoods in favor of streamlined, profit-maximized, large scale devel-
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opment. In so doing new housing goes up quickly and at great profit to developers, but at what cost? It seems to me that citizens of this city will have few alternatives to large scale developments. There will be no place like Leaside left for people who find themselves wanting such an alternative. If we pave communities like Leaside over with condos, there will be no turning back. I can see why someone would want to buy a condo in Leaside. I can almost envision the promotional material that RioCan will produce. There will be pictures of families playing in the park, pictures of treelined streets. An invitation to be part of the vibrant community that is Leaside. The irony is this. The concept that will be promoted in those cheery brochures is the very thing that will be destroyed by the development. Developers like RioCan will have been successful in selling out two groups of citizens: those whose neighborhood has been lost and those who thought they were moving to the Leaside of old. I’m sure many other people will highlight what we already know.
Large-scale developments like this will clog an already gridlocked Bayview where development is intensifying all the way up to the 401 with no new infrastructure planned. Increased traffic will spill into the residential streets. Overcrowded schools will become more overcrowded. These concepts almost seem to lose their significance in their repetition. I think of it on a more personal level. What does adding this level of density do for the average person in Leaside? It means a parent spending part of the evening stuck in Bayview traffic rather than being home with family. It means a teenager going to an overcrowded high school and getting a strained education. It means a seven-year-old riding his bike down the sidewalk and getting hit by a car. Members of the community participated in the Eglinton Connects consultations. We are not naïve. We know that, with the LRT, and with the growing population of the city, that some development is coming. Putting a mid-rise on the site of Sunnybrook Plaza, even with the current bylaws, will change the neighbourhood and be difficult for many members of the community. But with the ink still dry on the new bylaws, RioCan proposes to ignore them and ask for more. This begs the question: What is the purpose of a bylaw in the first place? It is not a platform for upward negotiation. It is a limit. It is a negotiated limit. It is a statement of collaboration between the city, business and citizens. If I look at the diagram of the proposed development I see some very
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clear demarcations. The eight-storey base upon which the two towers sit is the kind of building that was envisioned for this corner by the Connects collaboration. Those eight stories without the two towers, are what we, the community, thought we were agreeing to when we actively participated in making a development plan in light of the LRT. This is what RioCan can build if it respects the community and the bylaws. The eight-storey building (still larger that what was originally envisioned for the block and a significantly larger structure than what is there now) represents a compromise and a win win solution. It provides a mixed-use building. It provides a building in keeping with the proposed new streetscape of Bayview and Eglinton. It provides intensification and new taxpayers. It will undoubtedly provide a more than reasonable profit for RioCan. So let’s look at the towers. What is the benefit of seven full stories on top of the maximum allowed (even by the most liberal definition)? The downsides I have already mentioned and they are numerous. I would argue there is no benefit to the community, either those of us who are already here or those of us who are coming. Who gets the benefits? RioCan. Only RioCan. I challenge them to outline a benefit to the towers other than profit. In the last election, the Toronto Star noted that our community had more SLOW DOWN child safety signs than election signs. We are a community that is united on the common cause of safety for our children and preservation of our streets. We are engaged and we are able and we are invested. We have the power to harness the potential of the community and we will. We believe Leaside is worth preserving for our children. We will oppose allowing Leaside to be an extension of the wall of condos stretching out a shadow from Lake Ontario. Why is RioCan proposing 19 storeys? I think it is audacious and they are floating it to see if we are complacent enough to let them get away with it. RioCan, we are not. Let’s put aside unreasonable and unworkable plans. I would ask RioCan and the city to listen to the community and respect the bylaws. Let’s work together to find a win win situation that we all can support. Let’s collaborate to build a Leaside that both present and future Leasiders can be proud of and flourish in. Lets demand right-sized (not mightsized) development. ■
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A development we like, one we don’t Everywhere we look in Leaside, we are never far from a building site. We live in the midst of a construction boom. Given the rapid pace of proposed building applications for our part of the city, it’s hard not to wonder how much of what we think of as “Leaside” can survive so much development pressure. Our neighbourhood has character and history, tree-lined streets, great houses and shopping, convenient transit, and good schools. But it’s these very attributes that attract developers whose proposals for high-rise, highdensity complexes would completely change the community for the worse. Not all building applications are too large or intrusive. Some may enhance their intended locations. In the past month, we have seen examples of both types of proposals. At the May meeting of the LPOA board, a presentation was made by MHBC Planning for the applicant Quaestus, which looks quite promising. The site in question is 33 Laird Dr., a triangular property just north of All Canadian Self-Storage. On this 0.9 hectare space sits the former Levitt Company building, dating from the early 1940s. The pro-
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there might be five or six commercial businesses or services there. This is an example of a development that fits the scale and nature of its location, perhaps even enhancing it. Contrast this with the latest proposal by Stephen Diamond of DiamondCorp, to replace the shopping plaza at 939 Eglinton Avenue East (bounded by Eglinton, Brentcliffe, and Vanderhoof). This is the plaza currently occupied by Nando’s, Walking on a Cloud, the Urban Nature store, and Tim Hortons, among others. Roughly two years ago, Diamond attended an LPOA board meeting to describe his then-proposal, which we regarded as much too large and too high. He has now submitted a revised proposal which appears to be even higher and denser than the original one. The new application is for a mixed use development with 1,500 residential units; 2,950 square metres of retail space; and 9,690 square meters of office space. There would be 1,639 parking spaces on four levels of underground parking. One has to wonder why so many parking spaces are needed for a development located directly on the new Eglinton Crosstown line. That’s not all. There would be three ‘development blocks’: the north one with two residential towers of 19 and 24 storeys, connected by an eightstorey mixed use mid-rise building with frontage along Eglinton. The central block would have two residential towers of 31 and 34 storeys connected by an eight-storey mid-rise building along the north edge of a proposed public road. Finally, the south block would have a six-storey commercial building at the northwest corner of Brentcliffe and Vanderhoof, with a 0.22 hectare public park. Unlike the 33 Laird proposal, which fits its site in scale and respects the Leaside community, the 939 Eglinton East proposal is virtually a city in itself. Development pressures and resultant traffic volumes would create major problems for residential Leaside as well as threaten the well-being of industries within the Leaside Industrial Park. Is Leaside doomed? No. But working together with the LPOA, the neighbourhood must show developers, city planners, and city council that we are determined to protect Leaside. People power still works in this city! If you’re not already a member of the LPOA, please join. Check the LPOA’s website regularly for news and updates. Attend our monthly board meetings (7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month in the Trace Manes building). ■
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shackled with this white elephant. Even those against RioCan’s proposal will probably agree that something in between is a sensible compromise. Perhaps even a ninestorey mixed-use development like the one on Bayview? Seriously, though, the issue here is about waste. In March the TTC fired the two executives in charge of the six-stop extension from Downsview station for going 15 percent or $400 million over the $2.6 billion extension. While TTC CEO Andy Byford termed the dismissals as need for a change, the pressure to deliver value to taxpayers is intense and failure to do so means off with your heads in a figurative, if not literal sense. It’s all about optics. The Eglinton LRT budget is $6.6 billion when inflation’s included or 154 per cent higher than the cost of the Spadina fiasco. According to an Oxford University study, nine out of 10 transit projects worldwide go over budget so expect this number to be well over $7 billion by the time it opens sometime in 2020. Who’s going to pay for this? That’s simple: We are. Don Mills, which is itself experiencing potential hyper-growth just like Leaside, seems to have a more realistic view of development than us here. In the January 9, 2015, issue of the Globe and Mail, the head of the Don Mills Residents Association, Terry West, said about the future development, “We expect a fair amount of increased density along the LRT; it’s only logical.”
Hear hear. “It’s a matter of time,” says West, “until the [Don Mills and Eglinton] intersection alone becomes high density; we have been pushing for and expect that a future downtown relief line will come there.” It’s hard to know given how slowly the city seems to move on transit projects what will and won’t be built in the next 20-40 years, yet Don Mills appears to be thinking ahead. Here, in Leaside, we are assured of the Crosstown LRT being built and yet many seem unprepared to welcome change. Instead of fighting tooth and nail over the inevitable why doesn’t Leaside simply work as hard as it can to ensure that every new development that is built in the area — Sunnybrook Plaza being a major example — is done with flair, panache and an overall attractiveness? Some of the condos that have been built in the Bayview/Eglinton corridor over the past decade can hardly be confused for architectural gems in the city of Toronto. We have an opportunity to work with developers to ensure what is built, whether it be 13 or 19 storeys, is done with care and consideration for the neighbours immediately adjacent to those proposed buildings. The Toronto I imagine includes a Leaside others want to visit and live in. Without these new developments to add to the housing stock, this won’t be possible. Do we really want to live in a gated community where only the truly wealthy can live? I’m for RioCan’s development proposal because it adds diversity to the neighbourhood both in terms of the people who might live in the buildings and the types of housing available in Leaside. Healthy communities have housing available at different price points, not just a million-plus. Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America. It’s unrealistic to expect Leaside to remain the same while the rest of the city undergoes significant change. What RioCan proposes is in keeping with the changes along Eglinton. I see nothing wrong with its development plans. But then, I’m not afraid of change. ■
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Recently I found myself walking along the east side of Bayview just south of ReMax. A young couple and their small kids were looking across the street at the big black and white billboard attached to one of the four small bungalows on the other side of the street. The husband suddenly said to his wife in total exasperation, “The developer wants to build a ninestorey building on that property. It’s ridiculous.” But is it? The hodgepodge of buildings currently on the almost 43,000square-foot property include a 29-unit apartment building, townhouses, bungalows and several residential houses. The new proposal looks to create one unified mixeduse residential building with 172 residential units including 35 rental units (six more than in the extremely dull 3.5 storey apartment building currently at the corner of Bayview and Hillsdale) and ground floor retail. I live on Bayview almost directly across from the proposed development; it will be a fine day once these Bayview eyesores are replaced by something attractive that adds to the retail strip along Bayview while providing additional accommodation choices for residents and non-residents alike. I see it as positive change, as I do for what’s proposed for Sunnybrook Plaza. There is only one thing redeeming about the property at 660 Eglinton East and that is its history as Canada’s oldest strip-mall. Have you been in the mall lately? There’s a brick sidewalk the length of the property that looks, and worse, feels like it was laid by some shoddy contractor who’s built some of the monster homes in Leaside itself. However, if that’s not enough, try parking in the mall on a weekend. It’s a miracle there aren’t more fender benders in what is a very narrow parking strip. I think most would agree RioCan has the right to increase the density on the property. Forcing them to stick with this tired footprint is like the city forcing a Bridle Path landowner with an acre or more of property to only be permitted to build a 1,000-square-foot home. It’s economically unfeasible over the long term to expect RioCan to be
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How much barbed wire do we have in and around Leaside? Not much, you would say, and you'd be mostly right. We have no prisons, livestock farms, no trenches separated by No Man’s Land. No need here for the fierce deterrence barbed wire affords. We have lots of fences in our pleasant community, mostly wood, a few wire. We have a few No Trespassing signs and innumerable hedges. But on a quick survey it doesn't seem that any neighbourly disagreements have resulted in anyone stringing the rough stuff. The wood, plastic, and wire fencing protecting housing sites and endangered trees is conventional, benign, often perfunctory. Major construction sites, such as the Whole Foods complex at Broadway and Bayview, are also conventionally fenced. Oddly, you will find strands of barbed wire topping the wire fence around Mount Hope Cemetery on Bayview north. No nocturnal intercourse there between the quick and the dead. On the other hand the security fences at Mount Pleasant Cemetery are unbarbed and probably climbable. Who knows what happens there at midnight? Tourists in search of authentic Leaside barbed wire should head for the old industrial district south of Eglinton and east of Laird. There you will find many parking lots, construction sites, factory premises, even vacant lots ringed by six-foot wire fences topped with double strands of barbed wire. But if you look closely at most of these compounds, you'll notice that the wire is often fairly woebegone and droopy, rusty, tangled, well past its best before date. In most cases the fortified fencing is incomplete, giving way almost randomly to unwired new fencing. Probably there was a special on barbed wire in the
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By GEOFF KETTEL They are called lost rivers, but for many in Leaside they are a rude awakening. The most recent of these, and on rather large scale, is the formation of what’s mischievously been called the “largest swimming pool (skating rink?) in Leaside” at the site of the SmartCentre North development on the Vanderhoof-Wicksteed block east of Laird. It is on the path of the postglacial Walmsley Brook, a tributary of the West Don River, and you would think that the people at SmartCentre would have known about it. According to Lost Rivers researcher Helen Mills, Walmsley Brook (named for John Walmsley, a settler in the north Leaside area, interestingly right there north of the Lea lands) “started as two small streams near Duplex Ave. and Alexandra Blvd., which joined together west of Yonge St. and flowed southeasterly to Mt. Pleasant and Broadway. “From there it flowed in a generally southeasterly direction (past the Bayview and Eglinton intersection) to meet the West Don River in Ernest Thompson Seton Park, just north of Overlea. It was approximately six kilometres long and had 1 1/2 kilometres in two tributaries.” Where Sunnybrook Plaza is today was a marsh, where, according to Jane Pitfield in her book, Leaside, “locals took loam for their gardens”. For RioCan at the Sunnybrook Plaza site where a major redevelopment has recently been applied for: There will be problems! The other lost (or rather buried) river flowing through Leaside is Cudmore Creek, which started near
Eglinton and Mt. Pleasant, ran through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and now is completely buried, except for a small ravine beside the Bayview Extension south of the CPR mainline tracks. It crosses Bayview near Sutherland and is piped through the former ravine, which is now the much loved Sandy Bruce Park. Cudmore Creek was approximately 3 1/2 kilometres long. Apart from the water courses themselves, Leaside has a shallow water table, a fact discovered by many developers in Leaside who try
to excavate deep basements. Sump pumps are needed as a result. Helen Mills runs interesting Lost River Walks. www.lostrivers.ca ■ http://www.lostrivers.ca/content/ walmsleybrook.html
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We are calling all the foodies
North York Community Council recently named the nine arena board members of Leaside Memorial Community Gardens who will be eligible to serve until the end of the current term of city council. Reappointed are former chair Ray White and current vice-chair Elaine Snider, and current board members Cheryl Bannier and Jeff Dover. New appointees are Ann Brown, Julie Brown, Adam Gordon and Janice IvorySmith. Also appointed again after a decade away from the board is former member John Masterson. Current board members Paul Burns, Charlene Kalia and Barry Samuel are retiring. ■
It isn’t a good omen when you and your husband come back from a honeymoon and get fired. But it couldn’t have turned out better for Christine Manning and James Houston, and for Leaside. The firing happened four years ago and the couple fortunately had a bumper crop of vegetables coming up in their garden. They decided that was the perfect time to make a start on a new business idea that they hope will draw food professionals from all over the city, and perhaps the country. Christine Manning has a love of preserving and jam-making that came from growing up in small-town Alberta, with house chores including helping with the preserving, using Italian recipes from her mom and nonna. When she came east in the early 1990s, it was the first time she had tasted commercial jam. She decided it was not for her, and so started to make her own. That love has now become Manning Canning, in a rear space at 105 Vanderhoof. What the couple, who live in Scarborough, have created here, they say, is a place where food entrepreneurs can talk to each other and learn from each other, and set up seminars and tutorials for other food professionals. So far she’s made arrangements for some events sponsored by the city. Right now Manning has a full commercial kitchen with double gas stoves and ovens, a prep area, refrigerated storage, a dry storage area and a second kitchen with a combi-oven and two 30-gallon steam kettles for making sauces, soups and jams. There is even a wifi-equipped meeting area. ■
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