From Jane to Kennedy, Eglinton is going to be a different sort of avenue in the next decade, and the city and
Metrolinx are inviting residents to be a part of its development.
Starting with a meeting last night at Keele and Eglinton, and continuing on Feb. 26 at the Noor Cultural Centre on Wynford at Eglinton, and on the 28th at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute near the site of a future transit stop at Chaplin, the city’s planning division and Metrolinx will be educating and collecting suggestions and criticism on what will become of one of the city’s biggest avenues.
"What we’re discussing is an overall public realm plan for the whole corridor," says Lorna Day, the city’s project manager for
Eglinton Connects. "We’re also looking at ways to green the corridor, to provide better connections to the parks and ravines system, and whether there are opportunities to plant bigger trees."
Like many of the city’s avenues, Eglinton is grossly under-developed, but according to the city’s Avenue and Midrise guidelines, there will likely be a profusion of four-to-eight-storey buildings cropping up along the avenue section of Eglinton (its entire stretch with the exception of the Leaside segment between Mt. Pleasant and Laird) alongside the transit development.
This is the third
round of discussions on Eglinton, and there will be two more before Eglinton Connects submits its final report in the spring of 2014.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Lorna Day
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