In decades past, many of Toronto’s neighbourhoods housed more people than they do today. Shrinking family sizes and changing demographics have reduced the population in many neighbourhoods.
To allow residents to age in their communities, and to accommodate more people in their underused houses and to provide alternative forms of housing, we must examine the means by which we can expand permissions to construct the so-called ‘Missing Middle’ housing form. The Missing Middle refers to housing forms that range from duplexes to low-rise walk-up apartments many of which can be found in a number of Toronto’s neighbourhoods today.
Areas of Toronto designated as Neighbourhoods in the Official Plan, and coloured yellow in the land use plan map, are referred to as the ‘Yellowbelt.’
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