Residents north of Eglinton East are venting a lot of steam these days with the decision to permit a twin-towered development at 95-99 Broadway Ave on the corner of Redpath Ave. That location is between Yonge St. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. The development rises to some 34 storeys with the towers located on a so-called podium, as is architecturally in vogue these days. It is owned by Sentinel (Broadway) Holdings Inc. The final approval was given in recent days by the Ontario Municipal Board, a body that is deeply disliked by municipal councillors. Josh Matlow (Ward 22) calls the approval “outrageous”. He says the proposal for “two 38-storey (sic) towers on a relatively small site (runs) counter to the tenets of the provincial growth plan, which states that the greatest heights and densities should occur at the intersection of Yonge and Eglinton and then decrease the further away a development is located from that junction. This project will have a density twice that of the Minto development. While there is nothing more that can reasonably be done to fight this development, the experience has furthered my resolve to free Toronto from the OMB.” Urban Toronto
