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The city could be spending $16 million a year on bicycling infrastructure to put its 10-year bike plan in place, but studies on major cycling City’s plans corridors like aims to add Bloor Street and Danforth 525 kilometres Avenue would of cycling be postponed infrastructure for at least two over the years. next decade That’s i f To r o n t o Council goes along with recommendations from Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee at its Monday meeting.

The committee was considering a plan from city staff that would see separated bikeways, painted bike lanes and off-road lanes criss-crossing the city over the next decade.

The bike plan would see a total of 525 kilometres of new cycling infrastructure laid down on city streets, and the funding level of $16 million would allow all but two projects to be completed within the 10-year timeframe.

But the committee pulled back on staff recommendations, >>>DELAY, page 9

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Kristian, 10, plays on his backyard treehouse, which is in the shape of a ship. Because the tree house is in violation of a city zoning by-law, Kristian’s parents, John and Diana Alpeza, are seeking a minor variance from the committee of adjustment. The hearing takes place June 23.

Fate of Swansea tree house to be decided LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com The Alpeza family’s ship remains safely in its harbour – for now.

It’s been constructed to fit within the branches of a tree

that’s been in the Swansea-area home’s backyard for more than 40 years. That’s because the ship is actually a tree house, built over the past six years by John Alpeza for his two sons, Mateas, 8, and Kristian, 10.

However, it’s in violation of the city’s zoning bylaw and on June 23, a Committee of Adjustment will decide its fate.

Alpeza, a self-described “failed artist turned architect”,

says he continues to modify the tree house. He has plans to add book shelves and board games for the kids.

“This is a tribute to the tree,” Alpeza told The Villager as he >>>NEIGHBOURS, page 12

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Drivers may not realize, but planning starts years in advance of road closures, traffic tie-ups RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com It’s another busy construction season for Toronto.

That means even more road closures, traffic tie-ups and headaches for commuters and residents.

But while infrastructure work may seem, on the surface, to have been hastily organized, planning begins several years in advance, requiring coordination not just between city agencies, but by private owners of utilities as well.

“We plan several years ahead so that everyone’s needs are being met,” said Jeff Climans, the city’s director of major capital infrastructure coordination. “Major projects can be planned many years in advance and often need to be.”

Climans and his staff of 19 work on revolving five-year planning windows, coordinating the city’s construction plans with Toronto Water, the TTC and various private and public agencies that may also need to engage in infrastructure repairs so that “if a road is being torn up, it’s only torn up once”.

The department is currently determining 2021’s planning needs, moving on to 2022 once this year is through.

In fact, chances are great any major city works project requiring months of closures, from replacing ancient sewer watermains to road rebuilding and re-surfacing, had years of planning and coordination behind the scenes.

It wasn’t always the case; the department for infrastructure coordination has only been around for six years.

Climans admitted the past approach was more reactive, limited to the sharing of project spreadsheets. But with better technology, it’s now possible to map out a project and automatically determine if there’s a red flag or any conflicts with another project, even if no communication about the work has yet taken place.

That allows the department then to attempt to soften the edges of a plan,

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Above, a revamped city road sign provides details of a road work affecting the intersection of Dundas and Bay streets May 12. The new signs are part of the city’s effort to better inform the public about ongoing construction projects. Bottom left, workers cut sewer pipe on a worksite at the intersection of Gerrard and Church streets. The work involves replacing 135-year-old underground sewer watermains and is scheduled to continue until the fall. Bottom right, lane closures and shared space is the reality at Gerrard and Church where a major road work project is taking place for the next several months.

and ensure everyone is on the same page before the work is scheduled to start, Climans said. Sometimes that means providing greater incentives, or in rarer cases, withholding private construction permits so city work

can proceed.

“There is a good deal of negotiation that takes place, and one of the interesting challenges that comes about is the fact each organization has had to realize their programs have to

give way to something else,” he said.

“We have to ensure organizations don’t plan in isolation”.

This year, he said, the city has come to the realization there’s an “upper limit” to how many closures resi-

dents can suffer in a year, leading to a deferral of some work so that more essential projects can be done. Last year, for example, several city projects were deferred until after the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games.

On Gerrard Street, at the intersection of Church Street, sub-contracted work crews are busy replacing 135-year-old watermains and sewer pipes from Yonge Street to Sherbourne Street. Later on in the summer, road reconstruction will begin on the same stretch of Gerrard, including a complete re-surfacing of the street and surrounding sidewalks, new lane markings including bike lanes, trees and better lighting.

City spokesperson Michael D’Andrea said the work on Gerrard alone has involved consultations with Toronto Water, the transportation services department, the local BIA and Ryerson University. The work is being done, he said, when a majority of Ryerson’s student population isn’t on campus, meaning less disruption.

“We integrated the needs of all our clients to one single project ultimately to reduce and minimize any conflicts and disruptions to the community,” said D’Andrea, director of the city’s engineering and construction services.

In order to get the word out to the public, detailed construction signs are posted at every site, he said. The signs were revamped to clearly indicate the nature of work taking place, the duration and other important details.

“They’re descriptive, written in plain-speak and with a large font,” D’Andrea said. “It gives people information, which was currently lacking.”

In addition, the blue and white signs also display a numerical code, indicating who to contact in case of concern or complaint.

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he long weekend is just about here, and many of us will hit the road for this Victoria Day holiday.

No matter when you go – be it in the city or on a longer road trip to a cottage or to pitch a tent – your main focus should be arriving at your destination alive.

The excitement of having a few days off from the everyday sometimes causes people to throw common sense out the window (along with some litter – don’t do that by the way). While you and other drivers snake through slow traffic, you can expect the Ontario Provincial Police to be keeping a close eye on how you drive.

Last year, a total of 27 motorcyclists and four passengers died, our view with 17 of those motorcycle drivers reported as driving properly Share the at the time of the crash, the OPP road and be reports.

While speed and loss of control firework safe also played a role in the deaths, the OPP is cautioning both motorcyclists and other drivers to do a better job of sharing the road.

These weekends away from our routine don’t have to be reckless. Speeding, careless lane changes and unnecessary risk taking can cause more than a rush – it can end your life or someone else’s. If you follow the rules of the road, and the person driving next to you does the same, along with the vehicle ahead of you and the other trailing a safe distance behind, there’s no reason this shouldn’t be a holiday to remember – for all the right reasons.

And if you want to celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria with fireworks – be safe about it.

The Canada Safety Council believes it’s best to enjoy fireworks at a show put on by professionals such as the City of Toronto set for Monday night at Ashbridges Bay Park.

But if you’re going to be your own pyrotechnic protege, follow these tips: • Read the instructions, cautions and warnings on each firework item.

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• Spectators should be at a safe distance.

• Only adults (18 years or over) should handle the fireworks.

• If you are impaired, do not handle fireworks.

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Council needs to step up to make Toronto sustainable If recent history has taught us nothing else, let us remember this: that left to their own devices, Toronto’s political leadership is about as good with a budget as a pack of 12 year olds with their parents’ credit cards.

It had always been so, at least within the lifespan of amalgamated Toronto.

In 1997, Mel Lastman was elected the city’s first mayor on a promise of a three-year property tax freeze – delivered at the same time as the city was reconstituting itself into the largest municipality in the country at the behest, but without the support of the provincial government.

Lastman’s first term set a tone that subsequent councils have maintained: namely, that marginal property tax increases are the most injurious thing a government might inflict upon homeowners – about an equivalent evil to reducing services upon which those homeowners had come to rely and limiting promises of improved ser-

david nickle the city vice to come.

And so over the years, council has approved projects, maintained services and kept property tax increases slim to none.

This week, Toronto’s city manager Peter Wallace brought out another in what is developing into a series of despatches, delineating what to many has been obvious for years.

Toronto has been able to maintain the fiction of a growing city and a low property tax environment thanks to factors that are either entirely beyond its control (a booming real estate market that pours in revenue through the municipal land transfer tax) or measures of which council should frankly be ashamed (approving capital projects for future years with no means of financing). At some point, very soon, the boom’s going

to end and the projects will have to be built.

Wallace first pointed this out to councillors in the fall shortly after he took the job. That early report gave Mayor John Tory a small amount of political cover, to propose that the city maintain a 0.5 per cent levy on the property tax bill currently in place to help finance the Scarborough subway, to finance more transit infrastructure.

This report, coming to next week’s Executive Committee, provides an imperative for more of the same: a debate on what other ways we might find, to support ourselves in the style to which we’ve become accustomed. To whit: revenue tools.

These conversations haven’t gone well in the past. In the last term of Council, politicians balked at supporting any revenue tools, even as they voted to go forward on subway expansion in Scarborough.

Former mayor David Miller was able to get a couple

of major revenue tools through council, but the battle over the land transfer tax and vehicle registration tax nearly broke council.

Will it be any different now? It’s not encouraging.

Toronto council this term has shown just as little appetite for long-term financial planning as ever.

Under the leadership of Tory, council approved a billion-dollar rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway’s elevated lanes, against expert advice.

The Scarborough subway, absent all but one stop, remains on the books.

And this week, Tory made it clear himself that one thing he won’t support is any significant increase to Toronto’s bargain-basement property tax rates.

There’s no doubt about it: the arrested 12 year olds on Toronto council have a lot of growing up to do.

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St. Mary’s high school raising funds for Fort McMurray LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School students have banded together in support of the more than 80,000 people who were forced to evacuate fire-stricken Fort McMurray, Alberta It’s not unusual for the Dufferin and Bloor West streets-area high school to come together in the time of need of a particular community. After seeing images of the devastation, students were spurred into action “The school has held fundraisers to help people across the world who experience disasters, like the Typhoon in the Philippines,” Grade 11 student Gemarie Aguadera told The Villager. “Canadians are known for helping other countries, therefore we felt it was our duty as Canadians to help. Seeing the situation on

the news, we felt it was our turn to help.”

Aguadera credits teacher Steve De Quintal for coming up with the idea to sell flowers because Mother’s Day was just around the corner and ice cream sandwiches because they’ve been sold before at the school and were popular. students want to help “We did not have the time or resources to do anything else because it was last minute, but we wanted to do something to help,” she said.

As of May 11, the sale of flowers and ice cream brought in almost $180.

Aguadera said ice cream and pizza sales would continue until the end of the week after school in order to raise as much as possible.

Proceeds will be donated to

the Canadian Red Cross.

De Quintal congratulates Aguadera for her efforts, calling the work she and her fellow students have done, “wonderful.”

The flowers were a big hit and quickly sold out. The supply of ice cream and pizza has to continually be replenished.

“Upon hearing about the purpose of the fundraiser, some individuals even went out of their way to donate without purchasing (anything),” Aguadera said.

Red Cross is in the midst of providing $50 million among the evacuees. This is in addition to emergency funds that came from the Alberta government.

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‘Big 4 Killers’ targeted during safety blitz Four Greater Toronto Area police forces have partnered to launch the week-long Canada Road Safety Week campaign, which targets the “Big 4 killers” on roadways.

The campaign, which started Tuesday and ends Monday, May 23, consists of Ontario Provincial Police, Toronto Police Service, York Regional Police and Peel Regional Police working together to target the “Big 4

killers” on the roads: impaired operation by alcohol or drug; failure or improper use of seatbelts; distracted driving; and aggressive driving.

“Collisions where there has been impaired driving, speeding or distracted driving are totally preventable.

There is no reason to have fatalities,” Const. Clint Stibbe of Toronto police traffic services said to launch the campaign.

Const. Giancarlo Marrelli of Toronto police traffic services hands out a rewards booklet to a motorist during a 2014 Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) spot check. Toronto police, in conjunction with several other police forces, are currently conducting the Canada Road Safety Week campaign.

Officers will be conducting targeted traffic enforcement in and around the city on Hwys. 427, 401, the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway, as well as city streets.

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Hundreds of firefighters honour their own Sara Rosen remembered as ‘genuine, selfless, smiling’ TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com A sea of hundreds of Toronto firefighters wearing their dress black uniforms and white gloves stood solemnly with family and friends Monday morning to pay final respects to their fallen colleague Sara Rosen, whom one remembered as “genuine, selfless, smiling and full of life.”

Mourners packed Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel on Steeles Avenue West near Keele Street in North York for Rosen’s 90-minute funeral.

Jackie Gaistman, Rosen’s partner, called her “my compass.”

“Sara is the fiercest, most genuine, brutally honest, inspirational, joyful, free-spirited, soulful, generous, strong, determined, feisty, loyal, courageous person I’ve ever met,” Gaistman said, calling her his wife. “Sara loved her parents and her brother Mark with every ounce of her heart. Mark is living testament to Sara’s love, generosity, caring and courage. She was, and still is, such a hero.”

Twelve years ago, Rosen donated her kidney to her brother, Mark. Since then, the siblings would celebrate an additional “birthday” every year marking the date of the transplant, said Rosen’s father, Allan.

Rosen, 38, was a 15-year Toronto firefighter, who worked out of Station 443 on Islington Avenue in central Etobicoke. She had planned to take a year’s sabbatical from her job this September to attend law school on a full scholarship.

Rosen died last Thursday in a mountain biking accident while out riding with a colleague at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont. Gaistman called his life with Rosen a “magical journey” because of Rosen’s “joy of life, excitement and passion.

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feel happy, feel worthy, feel respected.

You made everyone want to enjoy life. You always fought for what was right.

“It is your strength that is helping me get through this terrible tragedy.”

A strong sense of self, determination and a spirit to fight for what was right were themes woven throughout the stories Rosen’s father told from his daughter’s life.

“Nothing would stop Sara,” Allan Rosen said.

He recalled how she stood playing with water in a sink while other children in her class gathered as per a teacher’s instruction. How she pulled an astounded 240-pound male firefighter, wearing 75 pounds of weights, from a smoke-filled room during a training exercise.

How she persevered to another fire hall and was hired when the platoon chief of the first hall she approached said they weren’t set up to accept women firefighters. “Do you have a lock on the door? Do you have a bunk?”

Rosen had asked.

How emotionally struck she was when she was with the first fire crew to respond to a devastating fire in two barns at Woodbine Racetrack in August 2002 that killed 31 horses.

How unreservedly she had offered a kidney to her brother when his health began to fail. And how she then became a vocal advocate for organ donation.

Many mourners wept when Allan Rosen closed his eulogy by saying, “I won’t hear my daughter say ‘I love you’ anymore. Goodbye, Sara. I love you.’”

Rabbi Tina Grimberg read American poet Mary Oliver’s poem, “When Death Comes” because it spoke to Rosen’s mark on the world, she said.

“When it’s over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amazement... I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world,” Grimberg read. “Sara Rosen did not simply visit this world. She was a bride married to amazement.”

Frank Ramagnano, president of t h e Toronto

P r o f e s s i o n a l F i re F i g h t e r s’ Association, shared messages of condolence offered by Toronto firefighters.

“Sara was powerful and fierce.

People like Sara make you want to do more in the world to help others,” one firefighter said.

Another offered: “She was honest, caring and full of life. She was always looking to make things better.”

“If we had 3,000 Saras, we would have the most successful union in the world,” Ramagnano said.

Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales, who is out of the province, also offered a message of condolence.

The chief said he met Rosen in recent weeks when she spoke with him in his office about her role as a volunteer Toronto ambassador for the Positive Space campaign. The campaign seeks to create a moreinclusive workforce for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer and two Spirited (LGBTQ2S) communities.

“I was immediately impressed by Sara’s grace, professionalism and her commit-

ment to this project. Sara was giving and kind, it was clear to me in our all-too-brief meeting,” Sales wrote.

Mike McCoy, Toronto fire deputy chief of operations, said Rosen carried out her duties with “courage and compassion.” He first met Rosen in 2005 when he was her platoon chief.

“The position of a firefighter is often dangerous, thankless, and at times, pushes you to limits you never thought you were capable of. It is not an occupation for the faint of heart or something to be entered into lightly.

You have to love this job to do it well.

Sara did it well.”

McCoy said her colleagues will remember Rosen “as a truly compassionate person, a humanitarian with a zest for life and a person with a strong, determined personality....

She was generous and caring, and always eager to lend a hand.”

McCoy encouraged mourners to take some comfort in the knowledge Rosen was doing what she loved when her life ended.

“On a beautiful spring day, she was living life to the fullest and enjoying every minute of it,” he said.

Hundreds of firefighters stood at attention in two lines on either side of Alness Street outside the funeral home as members of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ ceremonial unit piped Rosen’s funeral procession to the cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the Sara Rosen Memorial Fund, which benefits organ transplants at Toronto General Hospital, mental health causes and The Positive Space Anti-Bullying Campaign.

Donations may be made c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst St. Toronto, M6A 2C3. Visit www. benjamins.ca or call 416-780-0324.

Rosen leaves her partner, Jackie Gaistman, children Frelan and Alex and her beloved dog, Brownie, as well as her parents, Allan and Ann, and her brother, Mark.

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Those corridors would include Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue, Kipling Avenue, Jane Street, Kingston

Road, Midland Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West.

Work would continue on projects already underway: Bloor-Dupont between Keele Street and Sherbourne Street, Yonge Street between Finch Avenue and Sheppard Avenue, and Yonge Street

between Bloor and Front Street.

Works Committee Chair Jaye Robinson moved that amendment in order to incorporate the findings from the Bloor pilot project, which will see bike tracks put in place through the Annex

from Shaw Street to Avenue Road in 2016.

“We’re trying to find a compromise on this,” said Robinson following the vote.

“A lot of people would like to see the results of the Bloor bike lane pilot. If you

look at the timetable, a lot of those studies are way into the future. So the goal was to really get the feedback, the data and the learnings from the Bloor pilot. What we’re going to do is come back in two years and review that.”

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said he was happy to see the $16-million funding to go forward.

“But I’m disappointed to see the major corridor studies have been halted,” he said.

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>>>from page 1 stood under the structure on the afternoon of May 13. “It goes through the branches like a thread through a needle.”

The elaborate tree house first piqued public interest on social media last month, Alpeza’s wife Diana said. While it’s a big hit among its young owners and their friends – the boys celebrated their birthdays and have impromptu play dates on the ship – the tree house has provoked the ire of some of the family’s neighbours.

Kate Lawson lives three doors down from the Alpezas.

She called the city on behalf of her mother, Marita Bagdonas, who owns the adjacent house.

“All I did was ask the city if this was legal,” Lawson said. “When we look out the kitchen/dining room window, all we basically see is a wall that’s probably 20 feet tall that’s all overgrown with ivy.”

She had to help her mother relocate her garden further south in the yard so that it wasn’t caught under the shadow of the tree house.

“All her roses and daisies had died,” Lawson said. “We hang laundry out the back, but now there’s no cross breeze.”

Since she first made that inquiring phone call, Lawson said she and her mother have felt “ostracized” by the neighbours.

After receiving the complaint about the tree house in the summer of 2014, the city issued Alpeza a ‘Notice of Violation’ informing him that it was “in violation of the city’s zoning by-law and that if they didn’t bring the tree house into compliance with the city’s zoning by-law we would initiate legal action,” Mark Sraga, director of investigations, said in an email statement to The Villager.

Alpeza feared the city would force him to tear down the tree house. While there hasn’t been any court order – or any other type of order issued by the city – to remove the tree house, Sraga stressed, altering or removing the structure to comply with the by-law was one of three options staff gave Alpeza to address the issues of “excessive height and insufficient set back from the property line.”

While she is not opposed to parents building tree houses for their kids, ParkdaleHigh Park Councillor Sarah Doucette says the structure exceeds the maximum permitted height.

“This structure does not just affect the immediate neighbours, the whole street can see it. It’s very, very tall and quite bulky,” she said.

“It shouldn’t interfere with the neighbours’ enjoyment of their properties.”

The tree house has been an issue for two years now, Doucette said, adding that

residents will have the opportunity to voice their opinions at the Committee of Adjustment meeting.

“Chopping off the top, would be a Frankenstein solution, a crazy surgery.

That would only weaken the structure,” Alpeza said.

Instead, he is seeking a minor variance. In the meantime, the city will not lay any charges as Alpeza goes through the application process.

“I would like to stress that our goal in this matter is simply to gain compliance with the city’s zoning by-law as we try to work with property owners to achieve that – the laying of charges or other court action is our last resort,” Sraga said.

Alpeza said he is not only working to appease the city, but also his neighbours.

“Whatever their concerns are, I hope I can address them,” he said.

Last week, the Alpezas hung a banner on the front of their house to generate support for their plight. Since then, they have welcomed anyone who was curious and wanted to take a look. Marilyn Hall, a nearby resident of Lavinia Avenue, said she had heard about the tree house on the news.

“When I saw the banner, I thought ‘Oh, that’s where it is.’ I think it’s fantastic,” she said. “If my kids could have had something like this they would have loved it.”

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Discuss future of waterfront transit Two public meetings are coming up this month to discuss transit proposals for the waterfront.

Waterfront Toronto and city officials will present preliminary design and planning concepts for possible new, yet currently unfunded, transit routes which may include the East Bayfront LRT. Two meetings are scheduled for the study, with the first taking place Wednesday, May 25 at Brigantine Room inside Harbourfront Centre starting at 6 p.m.

Another meeting takes place in Mimico the next day at John English Junior Middle School at 95 Mimico Ave. at 6 p.m.

CHANCE TO TAKE wLAST IN TUNNEL VISION

The Tunnel Vision subway exhibit is down to its final month.

The installation inside St. Lawrence Market features photographs, maps and other artifacts from nearly

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT 100 years of transit planning, dating well before the opening of the city’s first subway stations.

Organized by the Toronto Transportation Society, the exhibit, which opened in February, closes June 11.

OVER UBER, HERE wMOVE COMES APPLE

The legalization of Uber is well at hand, but could another tech giant one day enter the ride-hailing market?

It certainly seems like Apple is interested, with the company announcing last week it is investing $1 billion in a Chinese competitor of Uber, and acting as a “strategic” investor to the company, Didi Chuxing.

It’s certainly conceivable Apple will never operate a ride-hailing service on its own.

But the company’s deep pockets combined with the burgeoning growth of the industry could mean there’s a day when Apple-branded vehicles are providing private rides in this city, and rivalling Uber in popularity.

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For 21 years of his career with the city, Mitch Stambler was the commission’s chief planning official, having a hand in developing transit expansion projects and plans.

Stambler had a direct role creating the Transit City light rail network plan, and he was also part of planning for the Spadina subway extension.

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