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City Approves Forest Park 

5/9/2016

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On Monday, March 21, 2016, the City Planning Committee heard all the arguments against the Forest Park Development Plan, and then voted 7-2 to approve. Councillor Chris Fonseca and Councillor Karen Ras voted against the application. The Mayor left the Council Meeting before the vote was taken.

The bottom line was that, since the City Planners had already approved the plan, the developer indicated that they would take the City to the Ontario Municipal Board. In essence, the Council would be reversing the decision of its own staff. The legal council for the City, when questioned by Councillor Carolyn Parish, advised that fighting the decision at OMB would cost the City upwards of $200,000.  

​On these grounds, and faced with the fact that their track record was not good when fighting OMB, Council approved the development, with some conditions. The conditions included a list of upgrades to the existing buildings and removing paid parking prior to moving forward with the final plans. 

​This article was originally published in the Summer 2016 issue of the Rockwood Homeowners' Association quarterly newsletter, The Rockwood Times.
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Development May Become a Reality

3/17/2016

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On Wednesday, January 13, the City put residents on notice that the Forest Park Development, will in some form, become a reality. While we may lobby City Hall and the Planning Department with every legitimate argument, the reality is that the Province and the City are hungry for development. Even if the City accepts our plea to nix this development, it will go to OMB (Ontario Municipal Board) and, in all probability, it will get the green light.

The province is pushing municipalities to look for the opportunity to increase density in areas that could accommodate some intensification, and that already have transportation and other infrastructure. Mississauga is looking for new revenue streams, and new development equals more revenue. City representatives came to the meeting and told us that from their perspective Ward 3 has all the right services in place to move forward with encouraging new development.  

Mississauga is looking at development in every potential space they can identify for intensification.  This includes the land around Rockwood Mall, The Kingsbury Plaza and every apartment building with some currently unused land.  

Intensification of plaza property may be anything from adding residential units in the parking lot to tearing down the existing plaza and replacing it with retail, condos above the stores, and possibly satellite buildings or town homes. This is currently underway at Humbertown Plaza in Etobicoke at Royal York and Dundas. Adding new development around existing apartment buildings is exactly what is planned for Forest Park and what has already been approved for 1315 Bough Beeches.  

If by some chance we win the “battle” over Forest Park, it looks like OMB may win the “war” again. 

​As always, we welcome your comments, questions and any concerns you may wish to share in over 3,000 newsletters distributed quarterly in your Rockwood neighborhood, please forward your information to rha.executive@gmail.com.

This article was originally published in the Spring 2016 issue of the Rockwood Homeowners' Association quarterly newsletter, The Rockwood Times.
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Forest Park Study Concerns Ignored 

3/17/2016

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​On January 13, Ward 3 Councillor Chris Fonseca invited residents to a meeting using the subject line "Re: Forest Park Circle - Capacity Study Community Meeting".  Residents packed the auditorium at Tomken Arena in expectation of the City’s comment on the status of the proposed Forest Park development.

The audience was walked through a presentation by various Planning Department members that basically concluded that Ward 3 has sufficient capacity to add additional new development and that, as a result, the City is actively looking at opportunities to intensify properties within Ward 3.  To this end, the expectation was that attendees would act as a focus group for visioning of future development and stakeholders were being encouraged to participate in a steering committee.
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This article was originally published in the Spring 2016 issue of the Rockwood Homeowners' Association quarterly newsletter, The Rockwood Times. ​

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