Two more affordable apartment buildings in Birch Cliff have been targeted for redevelopment, which means there are now four proposed “demovictions” in the neighbourhood affecting tenants in a total of 155 rental units.
Tenants in three low-rise apartment buildings on Glen Everest Road are fighting to save their homes from a developer who plans to tear down their affordable rental buildings and replace them with a new 12-storey condominium.
Opposition is muted to a comparatively modest eight-storey condo building proposed for 1161 Kingston Rd. at Courcelette Road, the current site of Spiros & Sons gas station.
There’s a possibility that a new elementary school will be built in the Quarry as part of the 19-acre subdivision proposed for the vacant land east of Victoria Park Avenue and north of Gerrard Street East.
The health and safety of children at Birch Cliff Public School will be at risk if the City of Toronto approves a proposed ten-storey condo on Kingston Road between Birchcliff and Lakeside Avenues, according to TDSB school board trustee Parthi Kandavel.
A community association meeting will be held on Wed. Dec. 9 to discuss the ten condominium projects underway or pending in Birch Cliff, including Lenmore Court, where tenants have been told they will be displaced.
The new marketing campaign for “The Manderley” is causing some confusion and concern because the condo appears taller than promised and is missing architectural features intended to help integrate it into the neighbourhood.
Tenants in 32 apartment units at Lenmore Court in Birch Cliff have been told they need to move to allow for the construction of a new nine-storey condominium on Kingston Road.