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O’Connor study heads to city hall
St. Patrick’s hosts Spooktacular
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HALLOWEEN FUN: Alien Frankie Nusink, right, takes ‘Doctor’ Stefano Sestito’s pulse during the St. Patrick Catholic School Haunted House ‘Spooktacular’ held Tuesday afternoon. For more photos, see page 12.
The O’Connor Drive Avenue Study, which could change planning rules on part of the street, faces its first real test next week at city hall. Though “targeted for completion in Summer 2006,” the draft study meant to revitalize O’Connor Drive from Sandra Road to Victoria Park Avenue was only recently completed after a long and unexplained hiatus. On Thursday, Nov. 8, details of the study will be discussed for the first time by councillors on the City of Toronto’s planning and growth management committee. Residents who make arrangements beforehand can speak about the study at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 1. City staff have said the study will be posted online as part of the committee’s agenda at least one week before the meeting. At Mirror press time, the study had not yet been posted. About a month ago, city planners said the study, which includes the O’Connor Bowl where a midrise condominium is proposed, would set development and design guidelines for its stretch of O’Connor but won’t change zoning in the area or affect industrial properties on the west side of the street. If the committee receives it, the study may go to ful council for approval on Nov. 27.
Shape Our Future school meeting slated for Danforth Collegiate Meetings in Scarborough and East York next week will ask parents to imagine “Schools of the Future” and how they could be different than Toronto’s public schools today. Shape Our Future, a consultation launched by the public school board, covers kindergarten to Grade 12 and
aims at a variety of subjects, such as how learning in schools can be “personalized, or designed” for each student. Parents can also discuss programs schools could create with outside groups, which new technologies should be in classrooms, and changes in the school year or
or classroom timetables. Residents can meet Tuesday, Nov. 6, at Scarborough’s Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate on Pharmacy Avenue or Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute on Greenwood Avenue. Both meetings are 7 to 9 p.m.
Toronto-Danforth Trustee Cathy Dandy said the subjects are important and the consultation is the largest exercise of this kind the board has done. “The feedback received from the community will shape the plan that will drive future programming, capital priorities and budget deci-
sions,” Dandy added in an online newsletter posting. Dandy said the Danforth meeting is being combined with her Ward 15 Parent Council meeting. More information on Shape Our Future, can be found at www.tdsb. on.ca/shapeOURfuture