A modestly-attended meeting in the gymnasium of St. Anselm School Monday night was primer for residents on the enormous development planned for Laird Drive and Eglinton Ave. down to Brentcliffe Rd. There will be parks, boulevards, trees, bike lanes and similar amenities on all these streets and others. Nothing much was seen regarding schools. Schools are the purview of the school board which from time to time complains that the City and Province don’t do much to help coordinate growth with classroom space. The huge developments at 815 Eglinton (at Laird) and 939 Eglinton (at Brentcliffe) are elements that will trigger the transformation of a low-rise street into something more like downtown North York on Yonge St. But many other addresses will also be rezoned to mid-rise and higher on the north side of Eglinton and the west side of Laird. Schematic drawings showed familiar places which will all be available for buildings six to eight storeys high. Density will mushroom. Comparative depictions of a radius around Laird and Eglinton showed the population leaping from 3749 people to 10420 people. Insights lately had by many about the full meaning of an LRT along Eglinton.