Does Toronto actually have a plan?

Toronto's housing plan includes

Toronto has been implementing zoning changes to increase housing density and create more diverse housing options, particularly along major streets and in low-rise neighborhoods. These changes include permitting multiplexes (2-5 unit buildings) in all residential areas and allowing for more townhouses and small-scale apartment buildings on major streets. Additionally, the city is exploring ways to incentivize developers to build more affordable housing, including through inclusionary.

If this includes suburbia I wonder if they will think past the ends of their noses.

If someone converts a bungalow into a triplex, where are they going to park the cars? I don't know if Chow, the mayor of downtown Toronto knows we don't have as much public transit in the burbs. They don't run 24 hours a day, affecting shift workers. The main routes are spokes to downtown making it time consuming to go from one suburb to another suburb. Some enterprising souls might have extra gigs to get ahead and transit times could make it unproductive.

Street parking will create traffic jams as the streets are typically 30 feet wide. Cars parked both sides makes a two way into a one way.
 
nobbie48 said:
Toronto's housing plan includes

Toronto has been implementing zoning changes to increase housing density and create more diverse housing options, particularly along major streets and in low-rise neighborhoods. These changes include permitting multiplexes (2-5 unit buildings) in all residential areas and allowing for more townhouses and small-scale apartment buildings on major streets. Additionally, the city is exploring ways to incentivize developers to build more affordable housing, including through inclusionary.

If this includes suburbia I wonder if they will think past the ends of their noses.

If someone converts a bungalow into a triplex, where are they going to park the cars? I don't know if Chow, the mayor of downtown Toronto knows we don't have as much public transit in the burbs. They don't run 24 hours a day, affecting shift workers. The main routes are spokes to downtown making it time consuming to go from one suburb to another suburb. Some enterprising souls might have extra gigs to get ahead and transit times could make it unproductive.

Street parking will create traffic jams as the streets are typically 30 feet wide. Cars parked both sides makes a two way into a one way.
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Most of the 3/4 plex rebuilds don't have a parking spot for every unit. In the rare case they do have parking, it's because they turned the rear yard into a parking lot. Each unit gets a balcony. First floor is often smaller footprint to allow driveway to get to rear yard. I'm not sure what the city is requiring for drainage if you want to hardscape your whole lot. They spend a bunch of their time going after seniors that install astroturf to ease maintenance (which percolates water just as well as grass).
 
GreyGhost said:
Most of the 3/4 plex rebuilds don't have a parking spot for every unit. In the rare case they do have parking, it's because they turned the rear yard into a parking lot. Each unit gets a balcony. First floor is often smaller footprint to allow driveway to get to rear yard. I'm not sure what the city is requiring for drainage if you want to hardscape your whole lot. They spend a bunch of their time going after seniors that install astroturf to ease maintenance (which percolates water just as well as grass).
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So how do the suburbanites get to work or go shopping without a car? Public transit sucks even if it exists.

Corner stores are no longer being built. Instead, miles away, they build a mall or bunch of big box stores.
 
nobbie48 said:
So how do the suburbanites get to work or go shopping without a car? Public transit sucks even if it exists.

Corner stores are no longer being built. Instead, miles away, they build a mall or bunch of big box stores.
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Ebikes? Most have a bike rack to offer your expensive rides up for the thieves.
 
Annnnnd the city of Toronto still doesn't have a plan for replacing broken water meters. So we are left with estimated rates. And they have the balls to approve a rate increase?!? WTF.
 
GreyGhost said:
"Estimate" equals lots of sprinkler time.
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Except the meters work the remote reading doesn't. So that will just end up as a huge bill once the meter is read!

In general, this is my concern for many. This goes on and on, and then years from now people are getting a four maybe even five figure bill once the meter is read because they had no idea about some running toilet in the basement, leaking faucet etc.

I tried their self reading/reporting portal a while back and it kept crashing...
 
backmarkerducati said:
I tried their self reading/reporting portal a while back and it kept crashing...
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I didn't know they had this, I tried looking for something on the bill, or the CoT website where the notice of the meter reading problem, but noting. Might check again.

Probably just as bad as thier eBill sign up, I'm still getting paper even when I signed up for electronic...
 
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sburns said:
I didn't know they had this, I tried looking for something on the bill, or the CoT website where the notice of the meter reading problem, but noting. Might check again.

Probably just as bad as thier eBill sign up, I'm still getting paper even when I signed up for electronic...
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I can't find the link now... but it says you can submit it via 311.
 
backmarkerducati said:
Except the meters work the remote reading doesn't. So that will just end up as a huge bill once the meter is read!

In general, this is my concern for many. This goes on and on, and then years from now people are getting a four maybe even five figure bill once the meter is read because they had no idea about some running toilet in the basement, leaking faucet etc.

I tried their self reading/reporting portal a while back and it kept crashing...
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The Mrs noticed an increase in the water bill and we tracked it back to a slightly leaking toilet. Shutting the valve at night showed on the meter as there were no other uses.

Water was a common expense at my industrial condo and was out of line. An inspection found several toilets running almost steady and one place was filling a tanker truck at night to do mobile truck washes. Ouch
 
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