#1 Deauville Lane sub-file
By Roman Kowalczuk
THIS SUB-FILE NEEDS TO BE REVISED. MUCH OF IT DATES BACK TO MARCH 11, 2025
As is usual with these things, information about a "public consultation" about the re-development of the rental building at 1 Deauville Lane and the surrounding lots was slow to arrive, in early 2025.
And the planning/housing subcommittee of council was about to discuss a rental replacement policy - "No Demovictions" actually posted about this topic; see their pages at https://www.nodemovictions.ca/take-action
I had posted some updates in this message in the forums. The upshot is that a consultation/hearing of sorts about the demolition of 1 Deauville Lane... did indeed take place on Tuesday March 18 at Gateway P.S. Something like 40 to 50 people came out, and it was much better than many previous development consultations although the only seating was was hard, cold, folding steel chairs. And there was no coffee or tea.
The city's stock, two-page announcement of their "public consultation" about demolishing 1 Deauville Lane is downloadable here; you may want to compare it the the "45 Grenoble" version re: April 8th. The April 8th "consultation" probably won't be referencing the March 18 event. Confused yet? It's called data silos and it was mentioned at the January 21st meeting at Grenoble Public School. Divide and conquer!
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I have previously remarked the poor quality of the highly cropped diagram of the vacant lands in question - 48 Grenoble is not marked, the new "south tower" at 25 St. Dennis never happened, there is no golf course development application in play and the C.P.R. is non-existent.
I had hoped to raise these issues with the city planners in the weeks ahead.
This modified image from Tenblock's application for 48 Grenoble (two towers across the street) looks west-northwest. 1 Deauville Lane is marked with the red X. Notice how Tenblock (tenblock.ca) completely ignored 1 Deauville Lane in their application. Ditto the massive overbuilds at 7 St. Dennis Drive (which includes a proposed 50-storey condominium tower) and 25 St. Dennis Dr.; some of these appear as ghosts looming over the neighbourhood. In real life the 25 St. Dennis 'south tower' - which is on Grenoble Drive, a pending nightmare for the post office and Amazon drivers - is now taller than the original building and it dominates the area.
Background: out of the blue, the local city councillor sent around a message about 1 Deauville Lane in Februrary, to the effect that someone wanted to put tall buildings across the street from 48 Grenoble Dr.??? Each tower is to be in the 50-storey range.
This was very strange. Read the “McMemo” here: mcusercontent.com/.../6b4f03a1-798c-2660-99f9-cf51f98e0d40/1_Deauville_OPEN_HOUSEfinal.01.pdf
I checked the “AIC” (Application Information Centre - a peculiar set of web pages operated by City of Toronto planners) and there was nothing of substance posted about the land or lot at 1 Deauville Lane.
Even stranger - according to the city clerk a numbered application has in fact been submitted! See the file “Notice_of_Complete_Application_-_1_Deauville_Lane.pdf”
In the above memo the city clerk specifically refers inquiries to the A.I.C., but for days the A.I.C. appeared to contain nothing! I spoke to the community development manager for North York; he said that hard copies of the public notice were in transit but as of Friday (March 14th) I very much doubt that they had been delivered.
And the distribution area was probably small... for instance the residents of Leaside Towers may not receive any notice of the city's consultation. Staff took down my name and address for future updates via snail mail and/or e-mail; interested people may want to do the same.
Note that it was just a few years ago that the previous city councillor in these parts was taken to task over poor communications around a proposed tower at 25 St. Dennis Drive.
Roman Kowalczuk, 25 Problems Administrator
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THIS SUB-FILE NEEDS TO BE REVISED. MUCH OF IT DATES BACK TO MARCH 11, 2025
As is usual with these things, information about a "public consultation" about the re-development of the rental building at 1 Deauville Lane and the surrounding lots was slow to arrive, in early 2025.
And the planning/housing subcommittee of council was about to discuss a rental replacement policy - "No Demovictions" actually posted about this topic; see their pages at https://www.nodemovictions.ca/take-action
I had posted some updates in this message in the forums. The upshot is that a consultation/hearing of sorts about the demolition of 1 Deauville Lane... did indeed take place on Tuesday March 18 at Gateway P.S. Something like 40 to 50 people came out, and it was much better than many previous development consultations although the only seating was was hard, cold, folding steel chairs. And there was no coffee or tea.
The city's stock, two-page announcement of their "public consultation" about demolishing 1 Deauville Lane is downloadable here; you may want to compare it the the "45 Grenoble" version re: April 8th. The April 8th "consultation" probably won't be referencing the March 18 event. Confused yet? It's called data silos and it was mentioned at the January 21st meeting at Grenoble Public School. Divide and conquer!
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I have previously remarked the poor quality of the highly cropped diagram of the vacant lands in question - 48 Grenoble is not marked, the new "south tower" at 25 St. Dennis never happened, there is no golf course development application in play and the C.P.R. is non-existent.
I had hoped to raise these issues with the city planners in the weeks ahead.
This modified image from Tenblock's application for 48 Grenoble (two towers across the street) looks west-northwest. 1 Deauville Lane is marked with the red X. Notice how Tenblock (tenblock.ca) completely ignored 1 Deauville Lane in their application. Ditto the massive overbuilds at 7 St. Dennis Drive (which includes a proposed 50-storey condominium tower) and 25 St. Dennis Dr.; some of these appear as ghosts looming over the neighbourhood. In real life the 25 St. Dennis 'south tower' - which is on Grenoble Drive, a pending nightmare for the post office and Amazon drivers - is now taller than the original building and it dominates the area.
Background: out of the blue, the local city councillor sent around a message about 1 Deauville Lane in Februrary, to the effect that someone wanted to put tall buildings across the street from 48 Grenoble Dr.??? Each tower is to be in the 50-storey range.
This was very strange. Read the “McMemo” here: mcusercontent.com/.../6b4f03a1-798c-2660-99f9-cf51f98e0d40/1_Deauville_OPEN_HOUSEfinal.01.pdf
I checked the “AIC” (Application Information Centre - a peculiar set of web pages operated by City of Toronto planners) and there was nothing of substance posted about the land or lot at 1 Deauville Lane.
Even stranger - according to the city clerk a numbered application has in fact been submitted! See the file “Notice_of_Complete_Application_-_1_Deauville_Lane.pdf”
In the above memo the city clerk specifically refers inquiries to the A.I.C., but for days the A.I.C. appeared to contain nothing! I spoke to the community development manager for North York; he said that hard copies of the public notice were in transit but as of Friday (March 14th) I very much doubt that they had been delivered.
And the distribution area was probably small... for instance the residents of Leaside Towers may not receive any notice of the city's consultation. Staff took down my name and address for future updates via snail mail and/or e-mail; interested people may want to do the same.
Note that it was just a few years ago that the previous city councillor in these parts was taken to task over poor communications around a proposed tower at 25 St. Dennis Drive.
Roman Kowalczuk, 25 Problems Administrator
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