The South of Eglinton Ratepayers and Resident Association appear to have won significant victories at the Ontario Municipal Board in the drive to limit the mammoth development called 18 Brownlow. But members of the residents body and their counsel fear they are perhaps being played by the developer against what might be done another day. “Our win might be short-lived, since we are concerned about future development plans for the remaining 6 semis (on Soudan at Brownlow) that till now had been part of the development plans. We have a sense that this “revision” is just a tactic in achieving the same original development, but in stages that also ensure the developer does not have to devote as much of his site to parkland dedication.” SERRA
BRITON HOUSE EXPANSION
“We have an 18 Brownlow lookalike proposed development (700 Mt. Pleasant) with an application submitted on Nov. 3, 2017 by the Briton House (corner of Mt. Pleasant and Soudan) for a massive expansion of their retirement home with yet another 25-storey tower, including a massive 7-storey podium. The issues are familiar: too tall, too dense, lack of setback from the streets, lack of transition to surrounding buildings, zero transition to the neighbourhood on the south side of Soudan and no parkland dedication.”
