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Residents are applauding a decision by the Ontario Municipal Board to reject a proposed 10-storey condo building on Yonge Street north of York Mills Road. Meanwhile, the developer plans to go back to the drawing board and return with a new plan for the site. Trevor Jones, vice-president of the Yonge Ridge Homeowners’ Association, which fought the development, said the community is relieved the OMB rejected the condo building at 4155 Yonge at the southeast corner of William Carson Crescent. “Everybody who opposed this development is very pleased,” he said. “It was of great concern to the community.” In its ruling, the OMB concluded the mixed-use development would have a negative >>>DEVELOPER, page 5
Mayor ‘out of bounds’ on ward issue: councillor LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com
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60-YEAR CELEBRATION: Trinity Cai, 5, makes a craft at Lansing Co-operative Nursery School Wednesday afternoon during a celebration of the school’s 60th anniversary.
Don Valley West Councillor Jaye Robinson has already said Mayor Rob Ford fired her
from his executive committee this month after she spoke out during the controversy over a video allegedly showing Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine.
Now, she’s wondering if her outspokenness has prompted Ford, who has denied using or being addicted to crack cocaine, to bypass her during the planning process for a potentially
contentious development proposal in her ward. Robinson suspects Ford sidestepped her “because I’ve been speaking out on the allegations,” Robinson told The Mirror
following Tuesday’s meeting of North York Community Council. “ I t ’s j u s t i n t e r e s t i n g timing.” >>>COMMUNITY, page 5
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