The South Bayview Bulldog

The Bulldog likes to believe that everyone does his best and so when the stylish but now soiled trash bins with the foot-pedal action become clogged with rubbish, hey, we assume someone will be along soon to remove it. Work is underway to grind down the stone and cement composition which sits between our trees. We have come to call it Terrazzo 2. Terrazzo 1 you will recall, turned to gravel with the first snow last winter. Let’s see how Terrazzo 2 manages. At the north end, merchants are bemused by the appearance of the plastic flower boxes, six of them, which now look like they are having a convention from the corner of Parkhurst Blvd. down to about Dolly Jewellers at 1699 Bayview. As we say, everyone does his best in this scribblers digest and thus Councillor Parker has produced these very nicely planted boxes on the street, however odd their clustering, and we thank him.  

Peel Police are suggesting a motorcycle was speeding in the moments before a terrible accident with a car at Burnhamthorpe Rd. and Westminister Place in Mississauga.  A man and woman riding the bike are dead in the aftermath It happened about 8.30 p.m. according to local media The male rider was  pronounced dead on scene, while his female rider was taken to Mississauga Hospital where she expired. The victims are believed to be in their 20s. CP24 reported the arrival of distraught relatives of the couple. One woman wailed  “That’s my brother.” 

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