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When Mark Garner first visited Yonge Street south of Bloor, it was the late 1970s and like many young people of the era, he came from a distance – in his case, all the way in from Scarborough – for the famous street’s sometimes seedy but ir res i st ib le ch a r m s : in those days, rows of video arcades and record stores, movie theatres, music venues, bookstores, and the then-fresh glass cavern of the Eaton Centre. If he were born a few years later, it might have been the early and evolving annual Pride parades that drew him downtown, or BuskerFest, or So much has changed in North By Northeast. downtown Toronto since the But these days, 1970s. Today, redevelopment is Garner – who is now executive director of taking place more rapidly than the Downtown Yonge ever, putting pressure on the Business Improvement few open public spaces in the Area (BIA) – is watching downtown core. the exploding redevelopment of Yonge Street As part of a series of ongoing major developments near Yonge and Gerrard streets, and other avenues in the the buildings behind Mark Garner, executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA, downtown core, with will soon be replaced with several large condo properties. more than a faint worry Benjamin Priebe/METROLAND that without significant

change, those kinds of memories might be confined to an era.

“These streets are the same streets I walked on as a kid from Scarborough,” he says.

“They have not gotten any wider at all. They’ve poured new concrete, but this is the same street.”

The street is the same but the buildings around soon will not be. The 80-storey Aura condominium tower at Yonge and Gerrard streets is currently the tallest condominium in the country.

In a few years, it will be just the eighth tallest in Toronto, as new towers at Elm Street, Yonge and Gerrard, and Yonge and Bloor take form.

And other buildings will occupy what has been useful open space in the neighbourhoods surrounding Yonge Street: the surface parking lots on Bay Street and, more crucially, Church Street to the east. When those go, so goes concert and marshalling spaces for the annual Pride Parade, and smaller festivals like BuskerFest and North by >>>RAPIDLY, page 3

Teen takes future into his own hands with fundraiser LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Adam Abu-Hewaydi, a Humber Valley-area resident, has become a familiar face at Loblaws on Dundas Street West, just west of Jane Street.

Since classes ended in June, the 14-year-old York Humber High School student has stationed himself diligently for hours each day selling lemonade to grocery shoppers just inside the store’s main entrance.

Over the past two months or so, the teen has raised more than $4,000 thanks to the generous donations from community members. Still, Adam has a long way to go before he reaches his goal. His mission is to raise approximately $115,000 to retrofit the bathroom and install an elevator in the house he shares with his grandparents and younger brother. That’s because Adam, diagnosed with a progressive condition that affects his muscles called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), can no longer walk and relies on a power wheelchair full-time.

“He requires assistance with all of his activities of daily living,” said pediatrician Dr. Laura McAdam and ambulatory care nurse Kathleen McLeod, of the neuromuscular team at >>>COMMUNITY, page 10

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Men’s shelter seeks public input for service programs, facilities A community liaison committee comprised of Ward 11 York South-Weston and Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park resident volunteers has been formed and has begun meeting to discuss the new cityoperated men’s shelter slated to open at 731 Runnymede Rd. Staff from two city divisions – Social Development and Finance Administration; and Shelter, Support and Housing Administration – are part of the committee as are local community and health agencies, Toronto Police Services, local councillors, and current and former clients of the shelter system.

In order to meet city council’s deadline of reporting to the September meeting of the Community Development and Recreation Committee, said Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette in her weekly e-newsletter, the liaison committee is meeting weekly until Sept. 7 with a

focus on answering two key questions: n what is the appropriate number of shelter beds for this location; n and what programs and services are needed to support shelter clients at 731 Runnymede Rd? committee gets busy The committee will also be meeting with the architect to comment on the design of the shelter’s interior and exterior.

Information about the committee’s work, its agendas, minutes, reports and other materials can be found at http://bit.ly/2aQcAP7 If you would like to contact the liaison committee with your comments and feedback, email 731RunnymedeCLC@ toronto.ca In addition to advising staff in the preparation of the report, the committee will have ongoing responsibilities, including the development of

a community safety plan, and a community wellness plan focused on economic and social improvements for the neighbourhood surrounding the shelter. In order to complete this work, the committee will strike sub-committees that are open to all residents in the area who want to help advance the work.

The first sub-committee formed is community safety, which will meet for the first time on Friday, Sept. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. (future meeting dates will not necessarily take place on a Friday).

This sub-committee will work to develop a community safety plan to address safety and security with a particular focus on the Runnymede underpass and railway tracks.

It will also conduct a safety audit of Runnymede Park.

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DID YOU KNOW? Toronto’s downtown is growing at a phenomenal rate: In 2011, downtown Toronto had a population of 199,495.

In 2015, city planners estimate that more than 240,000 live here.

In 2025, that’s expected to double.

Much of that development will come to live in new residential developments.

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In June of 2015, 31,554 housing units had been submitted to the city in the form of planning applications. Another 28,812 had applied for or received building permits, and 16,321 were under construction.

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When you add people coming in for employment, downtown Toronto swells during the day to more than 830,000 people.

A view from the Bathurst Street bridge, illustrating the future location of Toronto’s proposed Rail Deck Park.

Rapidly redeveloping a city’s character >>>from page 1

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“With this type of intensification, with parking lots disappearing for programming, how do we build a quality neighbourhood?” says Garner. “This was always the high street, the retail street. It’s been a music Mecca not just for retail but also performance. And we’re about to redevelop the street. What’s the character of the street to be? We all had a rite of passage on Yonge Street. The street we need to build now is for the future generations.”

Toronto planners are seized of this question, not just for Yonge Street but for all of the downtown. With a huge growth in population, and unprecedented redevelopment of scarce downtown land, how does the city provide the public spaces that have in the past existed temporarily or in an ad hoc way?

Earlier in August, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced a plan to spend what could be hundreds of millions of dollars to cover over rail lands south of Wellington Street, to turn it into a 21-acre “central park.” The plan is informed by an ongoing city planning project,

TOcore, looking at comprehensive ways to “finish off” Toronto’s downtown redevelopment that allows the much larger downtown to retain the charms and amenities that made it such a desirable place in the first place.

“We’re finishing off the downtown and as we finish it off we need to make sure we don’t kill the golden goose by losing our open spaces and green spaces,” says Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat.

That inevitably means investment – either in real estate, or in repurposing the public realm. In the case of the rail-cover park plan, that means spending as much as $20 million an acre on decking and landscaping overtop of train tracks.

That might seem like a lot, but Keesmaat points out that purchasing land in the downtown core would cost the city between $50 and $60 million an acre.

There is no rail corridor to build over on Yonge Street. There is, however, the street itself. And it’s here that city planners, the Downtown Yonge BIA and local Toronto Centre-Rosedale Councillor Kristyn Wong-

Tam are looking for relief.

“The grand vision is to redesign and repurpose Yonge Street from Davenport to the waterfront, and rebuild the street so it’s much more dynamic… people friendly… pedestrian friendly,” says Wong-Tam. “If I gave you a street designed to be able to be turned over to festivals, with wayfinding and stages built into the street itself, would that not have value for a neighbourhood? Would that not have value with people?”

Earlier this year, Wong-Tam and the BIA launched an environmental assessment to look at the possibility of turning sections of Yonge Street – or possibly the whole stretch – over to pedestrian malls, or at least widening the sidewalks. Garner admits that he has gotten flack from some in his organization who chaffe at the idea of shutting down a stretch of downtown roadways to cars. But he says his membership – and the data – bear this out.

The BIA has done traffic counts, and found that out of 42 million people travelling on the street, only a quarter do so by car, and just five per cent by bicycle. The rest are

pedestrians.

Keesmaat says that studies on other downtown streets suggest that cars should have even less primacy. On King Street, cars take up 64 per cent of the space but move only 16 per cent of the people.

“Right now there’s a profound efficiency if we can shift infrastructure so that the infrastructure that moves the most people has the most allocation,” says Keesmaat.

Spadina-Fort York MP and former city councillor Adam Vaughan says plans like the Yonge Street plan will be essential to making downtown communities work in the future.

“One of the things we realized is that we’re losing flat space to intensification and flat space is where people gather,” he says.

“I think we sell ourselves short when we think of Toronto as culturally deficient – it’s one of the most vibrant places in North America. But if you don’t pay attention to it – don’t think about new ways to use residual lands – you’ll lose that advantage very quickly.”

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here’s no question: condo and office construction in Toronto, particularly in downtown Toronto, is booming.

By 2025 the city core will have half a million people living in it, many of them in new and relatively new condominium towers. During workdays, the population swells to more than 830,000.

Population density like that is good in many ways: it makes it easier and more cost-effective to provide transit and other fundamental infrastructure, and it limits the environmental damage that sprawl inevitably brings about.

But can there be too much of that good thing?

In downtown Toronto – maybe. For every condominium tower that climbs high for new residents, the ad hoc ground-level space existing visitors and resiOuR ViEW for dents that’s existed for years gets TOcore to look buried.

Taking a look at those spaces – the at maintaining unsightly paid surface parking lots up and down Church public spaces Street, for example – it’s easy to say good riddance.

But as reported by Metroland Media Toronto’s David Nickle this week, saying good riddance to some surface parking could mean farewell to the vibrant festivals and activities that have come to define downtown living: the annual Pride festival on Church and Yonge streets, North By Northeast, BuskerFest all rely on space both on and off the road for parades and performances and gatherings.

Something’s got to give, and lucky thing: city planners, downtown businesses and the area’s political leadership seem to know it. Toronto’s Planning Department has embarked on TOcore, a project to look at ways to maintain public space amid the high-rise development. And the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area along with local councillor Krystin Wong-Tam has been promoting a more specific solution to Yonge Street: giving some portion of the roadway over to pedestrians and cyclists. An environmental assessment of the plan is underway. We’ll see what fruit it bears.

A few years ago, kicking the cars off Yonge Street would have been a kind of municipal sacrilege.

Now, it’s just an example of the kind of forward thinking needed, to make sure that downtown Toronto stays special.

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Federal funding for TTC is the exception, not the norm If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who’s been regularly riding Line 2 of the subway through the heat of this summer, you’ve learned some tricks.

Before you get onto a subway car, put your hand through the door and see if it ignites. If it does, the air conditioning is off and you might be better trying the next car. If that one’s overheated too, you make your way to one end of the car or another, and conserve your strength until it reaches the next station, and try and move to a third car before the doors close again… and then repeat this until you find a car with air conditioning, or get to the last or first car on the train – which usually has air conditioning.

In any case, it’s wise to hydrate. Because even if you eventually get in the right car, on weekends and off-peak you might find yourself waiting in the tomb-like heat of a station or during rush-hour, staring through suffocating crowds

david nickle the city as over-stuffed trains – many more of which are not air conditioned – pass by.

Hot subways and crowded platforms aren’t the only problems that the Toronto Transit Commission is facing, but they are symptoms of the same problem: chronic under-funding, dating back decades, which has required commission staff to juggle priorities and in so doing deliver a service that at times barely approximates the reasonable expectations of its customers.

And so it is that subway air conditioning during heat waves is managed rather than repaired, as the TTC’s backlog of repairs grows.

There was a bit of kismet this week when the August heatwave broke for a couple of days, and the federal government came to Toronto

to announce the “down payment” of $840 million in funding for public transit infrastructure in Toronto.

The down payment is substantial – $500 million, ear-marked for among other things subway repairs and bus repairs – which hopefully will include some of those AC units – but many other projects too: bike parking at TTC stations, new buses, escalator overhauls and more.

The challenge will be to ensure that it keeps going, and that will be a trick. This federal money is atypical for more than its magnitude: it is not, as TTC Chair Josh Colle remarked, the kind of funding that visiting federal officials like to announce.

No one wants to cut a ribbon on a repair job, after all, and that’s what these things entail. Really, a well-financed transit system shouldn’t need $500 million in one-time funding to bring its aging but not ancient infrastructure up to scratch; there should be a

consistent and sustainable funding source that allows ongoing maintenance and at least modest expansion.

It doesn’t seem as though such a source is on the horizon.

This fall and next year, the TTC will be responding to instructions from Mayor John Tory to cut $15.9 million or 2.6 per cent from its operating budget. That will be an annual reduction, and it is dramatic enough that TTC CEO Andy Byford reported earlier this summer that if implemented he would have no choice but to recommend service cuts.

Given that long-term reality, one wonders how much longer it will be before another federal government has to open up the treasury to bring the system back to where it should have been all along.

Better hang on to those water bottles.

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Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Pascal’s Baguette & Bagels, 2904 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor, 647-2350843, www.junctionra.ca/junctionseniors/ COST: Free Group meets twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours – Tuesdays at Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W., from 10 to 11 a.m.

Junction Comedy Fridays WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Magic Oven, 347 Keele St. CONTACT: Billy 416998-1015, Billy.danger.wiegand@ gmail.com COST: PWYC Rotating hosts Billy Wiegand and Sam Burns showcase fresh talent.

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Toronto Swing Dance Society Open House WHEN: 7:30 to 11:45 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian House Toronto, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: info@TorontoSwingDanceSociety.ca COST: non-members $5 Toronto Swing Dance Society is hosting its open house.

Take part in a fun filled evening of all styles of swing dancing plus dance performances. Music is 1/3 East Coast Swing, 1/3 West Coast Swing, 1/3 2 Step, Latin, Hustle. No partner required. Beginners are welcome.

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High Park Site Maintenance WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Saturday Morning Knitting WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free

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Meet in front of the Grenadier Restaurant. All tools will be provided.

Lambton House Open WHEN: 12:30 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. CONTACT: Lambton House, 416-7675472 COST: Free See the last remaining historically designated building on the Humber River from the Lambton Mills period.

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Happiest Hour Comedy WHEN: Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Summer Reading Club WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free Read a book then give a book report at the library to earn a sticker.

Nighthawk Count with Bird Studies Canada WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre at the Forest School, 375 Colborne Lodge Dr. CONTACT: naturecentre@highpark.org COST: Donation $2 - $5 Join Bird Studies Canada biologist Emily Rondel to learn about these twilight birds. Take a short walk at dusk for a chance of seeing these birds up close. For adults and youth aged eight and over.

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George Pimentel Exhibit WHEN: 1 to 5 p.m. WHERE: The Davies Presentation Centre, 281 Avenue Rd. CONTACT: Nadia Ali, 416-696-9900 Ext. 24, nali@tcgpr. com COST: Free Private exhibit of never-before-seen photos by internationally recognized celebrity photographer George Pimentel who will be there for the evening.

Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: 416-887-0651, dufferingrovemarket.ca, piiiaperez@gmail. com COST: Free Eat local and organic year-round.

High Park Speakers Club WHEN: 6:15 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: gregsimonwhitfield@ hotmail.com COST: Free Conquer public speaking fears by practicing techniques in a safe and supportive setting.

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Torontonians get active during the ‘biggest game of tag’ In the spirit of the Olympic Games, Sport Chek hosted an event in High Park that saw Torontonians – and Canadians from across the country – take part in what was billed as the “biggest

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Chase the Gear took place in High Park last Friday during which participants relied on a custom livestream on Sport Chek’s Facebook

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Public Information Session An HSBC Bank Canada Branch is Moving On Friday, December 9, 2016, the HSBC St. Clair Avenue branch at 1241 St. Clair Ave West,Toronto will be moving to join our Forest Hill Village branch at Unit 106-446 Spadina Road,Toronto.

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TTC gets $400M for repairs Funding will also help pay for accessibility improvements RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com With a badly needed injection of federal funding now a reality, the TTC hopes the money will be enough to complete essential accessibility improvements system wide.

“This will help us accelerate our designs for the next phases of improvements we need,” said Chris Upfold, the T TC’s deputy CEO Tuesday.

His comments followed the federal government’s announcement of an injection of nearly $400 million directly to the transit commission in funding for essential maintenance and repairs, as well the accessibility improvements.

The TTC has less than 10 years to ensure all 69 of its subway and RT stations, plus subway trains, streetcars and buses, are

fully accessible as per a provincial mandate. $15 million per station This means adding new elevators, ramps and exits, at a cost of approximately $10 million to $15 million per station.

While currently halfway on that goal, the TTC has all but acknowledged that without additional money – it estimates it has $30 million to $40 million left from an initial budget of more than $250 million for the upgrades – it can’t make the deadline.

However, with the new funding guaranteeing 50 per cent of the total project cost, Upfold was hopeful the TTC can complete all of its upgrades well before the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act, or AODA, goes into effect province wide in 2025.

“We’re doing three to four (station upgrades) a year and if we maintain that pace we will get there,” he said. “We do have the time, but we’re also doing the work at the same time we’re keeping the subway running. It’s almost like performing open-heart surgery while running a marathon; we’re trying to fix this stuff at the same time as we keep going.”

For AODA, the TTC will receive just more than $5 million for fleet improvements and a further $10 million for bus stop upgrades.

It also gets more than $4 million for the purchase of 201 Wheel-Trans buses.

Its Easier Access program of accessible station renovations also gets a boost of nearly $4 million.

The TTC also received significant sums to tackle its repairs backlog, which stands at nearly $3 billion over 10 years.

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Police investigate taxi-cyclist incident Footage of an ugly altercation between a taxi driver and a cyclist downtown surfaced this week, leading to a police investigation.

At the start of the short video, a bike courier slaps the cab’s passenger window, likely upset because the vehicle is dangerously close.

The taxi driver responds by swerving into the courier’s path, knocking him off his bike and onto the sidewalk.

Fortunately the cyclist doesn’t appear to be injured, although he is understandably upset Charges have not been laid at this time as police continue to investigate the incident.

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Like the Toronto Rockets, New York’s new fleet will boast wider doors, air conditioning and allow for unencumbered access through the length of the train, but won’t likely be ready until 2020.

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The Dufferin Street Bridge will close to automobile traffic following the Canadian National Exhibition.

Metrolinx is planning to widen the north side of the bridge, located at the Queen Street intersection, as part of ongoing GO Transit RER (Regional Express Rail) expansion on the Kitchener line.

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New York’s own transit authority is planning to replace its existing cramped fleet with the open gangway models seen most commonly on the Yonge line, and so both the New York Times and the Post dispatched reporters to

place in evenings and overnight, though it assures any lighting will be shined away from residences.

PANEL SET TO DISCUSS ‘THE LAST MILE’ What to do about the last mile of travel? That’s what a panel of transit experts are hoping to answer during an upcoming talk held by Ryerson University’s City Building Institute.

Solving the Last Mile will feature representatives from Metrolinx, as well as from assorted Greater Toronto Area transit agencies all seeking to come up with solutions on how transit agencies can better serve residents on the last leg of their commutes – an urgent concern given the spiralling increase in congestion.

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Ever since their mother succumbed to brain cancer seven years ago, Adam and his brother, Omar, 10, have been cared for by their maternal grandparents.

“Their home is not accessible and changes to the home are required along with equipment – necessary to increase safety and independence,” the medical professionals said. “Our team occupational therapist, Nicole Captain, is working with the family to try and make these changes.

Funding is always a concern as the changes are expensive.”

Deciding that outside of the local grocery store was an ideal location to sell lemonade, “me and my brother, we brought our own lemonade and we spoke to the manager to ask permission. They said yes,” Adam said.

It was extremely windy that day, recalled assistant store manager Carly Auburgar, so she invited the boys inside

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Adam Abu-Newaydi is raising money to retrofit the house he shares with his grandparents and younger brother. He was diagnosed at age three with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive condition that affects his muscles.

With support from Loblaws, Adam has raised more than $4,000 by selling lemonade. He’s pictured here with his grandmother Gafra and Loblaws store manager Karel Dziewiecki and assistant store manager Carly Auburgar.

and helped them create a sign out of bristol board. Beyond the first day of sales, Loblaws has donated close to a skid of President’s Choice Lemonade.

Auburgar is also helping the family apply for a President’s Choice Children’s Charity grant. As part of his Go Fund Me campaign, Adam says his grandparents have done “an

amazing job of raising us over the years.”

They never treated me differently, despite my condition,” he said. Adam and his family would like to thank all the staff at Loblaws and all those who have made a donation.

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Women on the Rise conference slated for New Hope Tabernacle The Women on the Rise Empowerment Conference takes place Sept. 16 at New Hope Tabernacle, 2431 St. Clair Ave. W. The inter-generational women’s conference will facilitate dialogue tackling issues and concerns of women in a safe and friendly

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The event promises the opportunity to learn, laugh and ‘lay down your burdens’ while letting your hair down.

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