A public hearing is being called for before this 33-storey condo goes ahead in Mimico.
Public consultation is being sought by Mimico residents before a proposed 33-storey and 10-storey towers that will alter the community are built.
The President of the Mimico Residents Association (MRA) wrote in a February 27 letter to Councillor Amber Morley and City planning officials to demand a public meeting on the massive development.
Rozhen Asrani said the Mimico community must have an opportunity for ‘active participation in the development process.’
The Mimico condos are going ahead and will be heard by an Ontario Land Tribunal on July 8.
A plan to build a two towers and new roadway in Mimico is moving ahead with many residents expressing displeasure of the proposal.
The proposal if approved will lead to the demolition of 2405, 2407, 2409, 2411 and 2417 Lake Shore Blvd. W., between Mimico and Superior Avenues to construct a 33-storey and 10-storey towers that will contain 471 residential rental apartments in mixed sizes.
There would be retail space at the ground floor level, residential uses above, and two underground levels of parking, according to the proposal.
The Mimico development will take away land from Amos Waite Park for a roadway.
The proposal includes a portion of land from Amos Waites Park to be used for a new public road, which will be located to the south of the planned building site. The road would provide additional public road frontage to Amos Waites Park, allowing the park to be publicly accessible on three sides.
Asrani said the goal of the Association is to preserve Mimico as a vibrant, liveable neighbourhood for existing and future residents.
“We must have the opportunity for active participation in the development process,”she wrote. “No community consultation was ever scheduled or held by the City of Toronto.”
Asrani said the MRA is looking forward to having their voices hear and questions answered at the City-led consultation meeting.
“We always encourage developers who build Mimico to speak to our group directly and early in the process, and this is not always a guarantee,” she explained.
Some of the properties slated for demolition to make way for the development in Mimico.
“We are concerned and perplexed as to why or how it was skipped in the 2405 -2411 Lake Shore Blvd. W., application.”
“The lack of community consultation is frustrating, and especially so given the great concerns we have for this proposal,” according to the letter.
The association is concerned about the loss of parkland at Amos Waites Park, extreme over development in terms of height and density, and the lack of affordable housing or other community benefit.
They MRA is seeking answers as to how the mandatory step of community consultation was missed in the planning process.
The group called on Councillor Morley to oppose the application at the Ontario Land Tribunal hearing.
The proposal will be heard by the Tribunal in a 10-day video hearing on July 8.