December 6th, 2019 Dear Residents, As your new City Councillor, there is nothing more important to me than the safety of our community. The repeated acts of violence committed over many years in our Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood is extremely upsetting and unacceptable. The fear and vulnerability residents in our community, and across our city, feel as [...]
Economic and Community Development Committee 10th floor, West Tower, City Hall 100 Queen Street West Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Re: EC 10.8 Seniors Services and Long-Term Care Implementation Plan and Update November 29th, 2019 Dear Chair and Committee Members, I am writing to request that the Committee consider the Staff recommendations in EC 10.8 Seniors [...]
Protecting Tenants’ Health, Safety and Quality of Life: Toronto’s RentSafe Program Strengthened Leaking roofs, stained carpets, non-functioning elevators, and pest infestations are far too common for renters in Toronto. Some landlords have ignored City orders to fix their properties for years with little consequence; they treat the small fines as the cost of doing business, drag [...]
2019.TE11.12 - Alterations to a Designated Heritage Property - 276 Forest Hill Road http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.TE11.12 2019.TE11.16 - Demolition Application - 535 Vaughan Road http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.TE11.16 2019.TE11.35 - Residential On-street Permit Parking - Status Update on the Expansion of On-Street Permit Parking in the Toronto and East York Community Council Area - Notice of Pending Report [...]
November 26, 2019 Will Council Stand up to Protect Toronto's Tenants? RentSafe program and Rent Controls to be debated at Council tomorrow Toronto – Councillors will have an opportunity to protect tenants tomorrow through approving a strengthened RentSafe program and enforcing rent control on properties that have received City funding. Both of these measures are [...]
Tonight's Pumpkin Parades I welcome you to join me and my family at two pumpkin parades this evening. To check out the parade happening at Wychwood Barns Park (south of the splash pad), I welcome you to arrive with your pumpkin and its candle at 6:00pm. If you're available to swing-by Davisville's pumpkin parade happening [...]
Since becoming your new councillor for the Bathurst & St. Clair area, I have heard from many of you who are wondering about the future of this vacant site at this intersection. City Planning staff have advised me that Kingsett (the developer) is planning to submit revised plans to the City in response to [...]
2019.TE10.9 - Demolition of a Property Subject to Intention to Designate Under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act - 206 Russell Hill Road http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.TE10.9 2019.TE10.21 - Appointments to Business Improvement Area Boards of Management http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.TE10.21 2019.TE10.24 - 1601-1603 Bathurst Street - Official Plan and Zoning Amendment Applications - Preliminary Report [...]
While the proposed new transit deal with the Province of Ontario reduces the City's capital burden for new transit, the plan itself does not provide good value for the available funds. To demonstrate the absurdity of the plan, for the same cost that the province is paying to bury the Eglinton West Crosstown Extension and [...]
