It has to be said that Josh Matlow (Ward 22) has his work cut out for him. The future of the east side of Yonge Street north of Davisville Ave is writ large on walls wherever one looks. And the message is up, up, up. The challenge for the city is to somehow reconcile the continued pleasant enjoyment of private homes on streets like Belsize Drive and Soudan Ave. with the pressure to build light-blocking giants next door. The task has not been made any easier by the precedent set when the Minto Midtown went soaring to new heights near Yonge and Eglinton Ave. But whether its the ratty, and in some cases vacant little shops north of Davisville and Manor Road, or the lurking expectations for the Art Shoppe building between Hillsdale and Soudan, everything seems to signal a rising skyline that is unstoppable.
