Planning staff are advising City Council to get ready for a fight at the Ontario Municipal Board to stop a 15-storey mixed use development which would be built beside the Avenue Road LRT station. The site includes Yitz’s Deli and the nondescript shops to the west. The whole parcel is known as 346, 350, 352 and 356 Eglinton Ave. West It is yet another example of the development earthquake triggered by the LRT. Most of Eglinton is zoned mid-rise — seven to eight storeys — more than enough sun-blocking concrete for the people of these neighborhoods. But the money to be made by going much higher threatens to bring the bylaws crashing down from the Allen Road to the Don Valley.
