Archive for category: Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal

Are there cultural differences, in how Mississauga and Toronto go about dealing with land use planning processes?

January 11, 2022/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

Message from Graeme Decarie to all his MCHS classes; plus a note about the fact that in many contexts, diplomacy in communications enhances human agency

December 29, 2021/3 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, MCHS Stories, Mississauga, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

A Dec. 22, 2021 CBC article is entitled: “Hidden behind buildings, the last of Mimico’s opulent lakefront estates is still standing: Myrtle Villa was owned by businessman James Franceschini from 1925 to 1950”

December 26, 2021/2 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

Some people still remember Arnold’s restaurant at Forty-Second Street and Lake Shore Blvd. West in Etobicoke

December 11, 2021/2 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Newsletter, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

There are a lot of things in Stratford that have changed and a lot of them probably needed to be changed, but the 380-396 Ontario Street proposal is not one of them

November 2, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford /by Jaan Pill

On Sept. 2, 2021, we met for a high school picnic at an apartment parking lot with a great view of Lake Ontario. We learned how Bois-de-Saraguay in Montreal was saved from destruction.

October 19, 2021/11 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, MCHS Stories, Mississauga, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

A proposal for development project in Stratford, between Queen Street and Trow Avenue on the north side of Ontario Street, has turned out to be contentious

September 26, 2021/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford, Toronto /by Jaan Pill

Re: 90 Ash Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB) decision – refusal

August 14, 2021/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Newsletter /by Jaan Pill

As Erving Goffman has noted, what goes on in gambling establishments and risk-taking situations in general is worth close study

July 8, 2021/1 Comment/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Newsletter /by Jaan Pill

Landmark maple tree in Long Branch could soon be cut down to make way for new house: CBC News, June 2, 2021

June 2, 2021/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter /by Jaan Pill