About 40 people attended a meeting at the Roehampton Hotel (formerly the Best Western) at 808 Mt. Pleasant Rd. Thursday evening to hear about a proposed 44-year-storey mixed use development on the site. Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) denounced the scale of the project. It has a height many times greater than the present zoning and double the height limits seen in a draft of revised zoning. The neighborhood is no example of moderation in such things. It is a war-zone of high-rise frenzy. Enormous towers already largely built sit at the southeast corners of Redpath and Eglinton and Redpath and Roehampton. Perhaps they are “gifts” from the former Ontario Municipal Board. The Yonge Eglinton Plan is a set of guidelines being formulated by City staff for increased density along the LRT. The Roehampton proposal offends in a number of ways. It is too high, too close to an apartment on Roehampton and is said to cast at least some shadow on Northern Secondary School to the north. The City of Toronto planner David Driedger invited those present to write him if they had questions.at david.driedger@toronto.ca Urban Toronto
