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Metro News: Toronto council approves Eglinton Connects renewal plan
July 11th, 2014
Metro News
Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford attempted Friday to trash the Eglinton Connects streetscape plan as a “war on the car,” despite a move to ease the impact of the remodel on motorists.
The brothers’ arguments failed to gain traction with council, which voted 26-7 for the plan.
It calls for wider sidewalks, more trees, bike lanes and other amenities, while shrinking through traffic to one lane in each direction between Mount Pleasant and Avenue Rds.
The makeover would take place as the $5 billion Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, now under construction, opens in 2020. The line will run for 19 kilometres in total with 11 kilometres underground.
Council was told the LRT eliminates the need for nine bus routes that now travel on Eglinton to the Yonge subway, opening up more space on the street for cars while encouraging more people to use transit.
Town Crier: Shareholders look to oust board
July 10th, 2014
Shawn Star
Town Crier
A midtown mutiny might be in the works as eight shareholders of the Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club look to oust the club’s board in an attempt to stop the property from being sold to a developer.
The group, which includes three past presidents and a former board member of the 91-year-old Eglinton Avenue East and Mt. Pleasant Road area club, say they are prepared to go to court after president Phil Foubert failed to call a shareholders meeting by the July 8 deadline demanded in a letter sent on July 2.
Past president and current shareholder Wally Raynor, one of eight signatories on the letter to Foubert, said a lawyer retained by community members to fight a suspected but unverified sale of the club property to developer Michael Volpentesta will likely be seeking “to have an injunction placed on the sale of the property.”
377 Spadina Road Public Meeting Notice
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING WHEN: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 at [...]
Community Update for July 11, 2014
Eglinton Connects As you know, work has begun on constructing [...]
Brentwood Towers Public Meeting Notice
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING WHEN: Wednesday, February 27th, [...]
Letter from the Presidents of four Yonge & Eglinton Area Residents’ Associations in support of Councillor Matlow’s position on Eglinton Connects
Dear Mayor & Council, As Presidents of the Eglinton [...]
