As fall has already approached, Greenest City is pleased to invite you all to their Traditional Harvest Potluck in the Milky Way Garden on Thursday, October 19, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (behind the Parkdale Library on Milky Way Lane). This is an opportunity to come together to celebrate the bountiful gifts we received during this wonderful season.
This year they will have a very special program that will include:
Indigenous ceremony
Guiding tour to the gardens by our special invitees “the Monarch Butterfly performers”
Traditional dancers of Tibet
Local musicians
Harvesting dances by Aztec indigenous people
Truth and Reconciliation activities
Free art creation station
Kids and family Eco-workshops
Community raffles
Campfire for ALL to drink delicious Hot Chocolate while roasting marshmallows. We are also looking for volunteers to help bring this amazing event to life! Please let them know if you want to be part of the Harvest Volunteer team.
Listen to food stories and memories and taste delicious cultural dishes. Please join and bring your unique recipe to add some Luck to the Communal Pot. 🙂 Please let them know if you will be coming by registering using this form or by email – sandrale@westnh.org. Your confirmation is very important to them so they will make sure they will have enough warm soup and hot chocolate when you arrive 🙂
The application proposes a 12-storey mixed-use building. The submitted drawings and materials can be accessed at www.toronto.ca/1437QueenStW.
A second re-zoning application has been submitted for 1266 Queen St West
A re-zoning application has been submitted for 1437 – 1455 Queen St West
This application proposes a 25-storey mixed-use building. The submitted drawings and materials can be accessed at www.toronto.ca/1266QueenStW.
To allow you to learn more about the application, ask questions, and gather feedback, City Planning will be holding a Virtual Community Meeting on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023, from 6 – 8 PM.
NUIT BLANCHE – Sat. 7 PM – 7 AM – a dazzling all-night celebration of contemporary art, filling the city with art, performances, and cool installations all night long.
Start early by attending the ‘PARKDALE ART THING’ event from 2 PM – 11 PM outside at Queen & Cowan – celebrating our local artists, crafters, and performers.
Come out and celebrate the talented and creative local artists, crafters, performers, musicians…
It’s all happening outside on Saturday, September 23rd from 2 PM to 11 PM at the corner of Queen West/Cowan (Parkdale Library / 1313 Queen W).
APPLY NOW
to show your work, be a vendor, do a demo, perform, promote, create an installation… info@parkdale.to
OUR VISION
To provide an integrated community event that showcases professionals next to budding artists, kids’ art next to home artists, performers next to community arts programmes, and arts’ supplies vendors next to installations.
Exhibition Place is holding a Community Appreciation Day on Saturday, Sept. 16 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM on the Ex Place grounds. During the summer people learned about beekeeping and attended weekly music concerts at Centennial Park.
Join in the celebration with freeearly morning cookies and coffee in Centennial Park, lawn games, music at the Bandstand, a scavenger hunt, making matching BFF Friendship bracelets, face painting, a guided walk through Exhibition Place and the history behind the beautiful buildings.
Here is a link to sign up for any or all of these events – https://www.explace.on.ca/community-event/community-day-at-explace/
The City is holding an In-Person Community Consultation Meeting.
Early in fall 2023, the City is expecting to receive a revised planning application from Ontario to redevelop the provincially owned lands at Ontario Place. Join their community consultation meeting to learn more!
Thursday, September 7th, 2023 Exhibition Place – Beanfield Centre (105 Princes’ Boulevard Toronto, ON M6K 3C3)
Hear about the latest developments for the Parkdale Hub project. The Pop Up event will be outside the Parkdale Library on August 23rdfrom 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (at the corner of Queen Street West and Cowan Avenue) to see the updated plans and talk with City and CreateTO staff.
The City’s proposal for the building on the West Block of the site has increased from 10 stories to 16 stories to accommodate 60 additional homes. Within the additional height, a total of 231 new homes will be provided at the Parkdale Hub. City Staff have reviewed the impacts of the proposed changes to ensure the additional height does not adversely impact adjacent properties or the surrounding neighbourhood, and that the proposed height represents an appropriate built form. The depth of the property, which is deeper than many properties fronting onto Queen Street West, allows for sufficient step-backs and ensures a six-storey presence on Queen Street West is maintained, consistent with the policy direction resulting from the West Queen West Planning Study.
Parkdale Residents Association Comments on the Updates:
Mid-afternoon is an odd time of day to have residents attend a public feedback event. A lot of locals work during the day.
HEIGHT: We believe it is disingenuous to state that the increases from the original 6 stories to 10 stories to now 16 stories will have no impact on the West Queen West Planning Study which is being appealed by 17 developers before the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT-PL200629).
An appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal recently approved 11 stories across from the Parkdale Hub on the North side of Queen St. W. by KingSett Capital at the old Designer Fabric store (OLT decision OLT-22-002167 section 34 and 42).
In the deliberations of the Adjudicator, the Parkdale Hub project at the proposed 10 stories was used as the rationale for allowing KingSett Capital to increase its height above 6 stories to 11 stories. It is guaranteed that other developers will follow suit and request much higher heights now that the Parkdale Hub project is proposing 16 stories – look to the corner of Queen & Noble proposing 24-stories, the Radiator development on Dufferin south of Queen 25-stories, or the 12-stories proposed at Jameson and Queen to use a similar rationale.
It’s accurate to assume that the West Queen West Planning Study will fail at the Ontario Land Tribunal.
CULTURE: An important element of the Parkdale Hub project is the Parkdale Arts and Culture Centre. Currently, there are three important existing features at the corner of Queen and Cowan – Parkdale Library, Masaryk-Cowan Community Rec Centre and the Parkdale Arts and Culture Centre. The Parkdale Library and Masaryk-Cowan Community Rec Centre will see major expansions. The Parkdale Arts and Culture Centre needs to receive the same consideration. What is proposed so far diminishes this cultural component. This new Update reduces the proposed 10 rental units for artists back to its existing 9 rental units for artists.
More consideration of the creative and cultural elements of this Parkdale Hub is required. Not a reduction or status quo.
There is a pre-application virtual meeting on Wed., Aug. 30 at 6:30 PM to review a 21-storey mixed-use development at 1304-1318 King St. W. and 143-145 Cowan Ave.
There will be a short presentation followed by a Q & A.
