How to proceed with a media interview, related to a lot-splitting/overbuilding application, if you are not experienced at this task
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve been involved with media interviews for over 30 years, as part of my volunteer work. I’ve appeared in local, regional, and national media interviews. I’ve helped many people prepare for such interviews, as well. By media, I refer to radio, television, and print news reports and features. How I became involved in this area is […]
Long Branch (Ward 3) residents share advice with residents facing lot-split/overbuilding application on Lansdowne Ave (Ward 9) – Part 2
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillLong Branch (Ward 3) residents share advice with residents facing lot-split/overbuilding application on Lansdowne Ave (Ward 9)
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFormer Toronto chief planner Paul Bedford now heads Curtner Leadership Program for Urban Land Institute; I learned of this from Novae Res Urbis Toronto, to which I subscribe
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFrom a recent article in the Novae Res Urbis Toronto newsletter, to which I subscribe, I learned of the work that former City of Toronto chief planner Paul Bedford is doing as head of the Curtner Leadership Program for the Urban Land Institute. I heard a talk some years ago by Paul Bedford and was […]
Pamela Gough has strongly supported safe bicycling in Etobicoke as a school trustee; I strongly support her Ward 3 candidacy
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillDavid Juliusson of Long Branch, who I am pleased to say convinced me some time back to help out with social media efforts on behalf of Pamela Gough’s Ward 3 campaign, has shared an email in support of her campaign. Here’s an excerpt from David Juliusson’s comments, specifically about bicycling: Pamela Gough has also been […]
Question regarding case of building permit that allows bigger and taller house than committee of adjustment and OMB have granted
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve received an interesting question. The case involves an application that been approved by both the committee of adjustment, and by the OMB on appeal, for variances to allow the owners to enlarge their house. The owners in question, as I understand, went to the city’s building department with other plans (even larger and taller than […]
Pamela Gough will employ creative housing solutions to tackle Etobicoke’s growing affordability crisis
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill“”We know that affordability is a major problem in Toronto,” Pamela Gough notes in a recent interview. “Housing affordability is a really major problem.” Newcomers to Toronto are finding it extremely difficult to find appropriate accommodation that fits their budget. “And many of us,” Gough says, “who have the good fortune to already be established […]
Pamela Gough will fight over-height development and preserve neighbourhood character
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill“Here in the Royal York and Bloor area,” Pamela Gough notes, “development is just on the horizon.” Although it hasn’t happened here the way it has farther south in the Humber Bay Shores area, a number of the low-rise buildings on Bloor Street, between Prince Edward and Royal York, “have now been sold to developers, […]
Opposed to closing of a school near Royal York & Bloor, Pamela Gough was first elected to office as a school trustee in 1988
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill“It all started in the mid-1980s, when my husband and I moved to our current house in South Etobicoke,” Pamela Gough recalls in a recent interview. The house, near the southeast of the corner of Royal York Bloor, had been their choice because of its proximity to a neighbourhood school. To the family’s surprise, however, the […]