High Park locals upset over proposed 41-storey development - TorontoToday.ca

Emotions ran high at a city-run consultation on Monday night as about 100 Torontonians packed a high school auditorium to nearly-universally oppose the proposed development of a pair of 41 and 39-storey towers near High Park. “If you want me to get on my hands and knees, I will,” said one local resident, addressing city staff from the audience. “I am begging you, do not allow this development to happen. It will destroy our neighbourhood. It will destroy everything,” she said. The development application proposes to replace 11 detached houses on adjacent residential streets north of Bloor Street, near High Park, with a pair of towers that would create about 875 units of rental housing, half of which would be two-bedroom units or larger. In application materials, developer Elysium Investments argued the proposed towers, which would be significantly taller than adjacent apartments, are suitable for the area because of the neighbourhood’s emerging character and proximity to nearby subway s

Emotions ran high at a city-run consultation on Monday night as about 100 Torontonians packed a high school auditorium to nearly-universally oppose the proposed development of a pair of 41 and 39-storey towers near High Park. “If you want me to get on my hands and knees, I will,” said one local resident, addressing city staff from the audience. “I am begging you, do not allow this development to happen. It will destroy our neighbourhood. It will destroy everything,” she said. The development application proposes to replace 11 detached houses on adjacent residential streets north of Bloor Stree