LPAT Support Office for residents closing in June 2019

March 30, 2019 Steve Rankine

LPAT's support office was to provide information for residents to appeal development applications.

The Government of Ontario has made a decision to close the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre (LPASC). LPASC has until June 30, 2019 to wind down the business.

Effective immediately, LPASC will no longer be accepting new requests for professional services from the public. During this wind down period, LPASC is committed to continuing to serve, to the best of its ability, those clients who have retained its services. LPASC staff will be in contact with those clients with further details shortly.

A heated discussion took place at City Hall about this issue and you can see it via the following link by starting at the 16 minute point of this YouTube video taken at the event.

If you have any questions, please send an email to info@lpasc.ca or call 1-800-993-8410.

The Question of Precedence

December 15, 2018 Steve Rankine

When it comes to decisions made by the LPAT/OMB what is the reality of precedent setting?

The answer is: LPAT/OMB decisions do not set binding precedents.

35 Kingsway Crescent to be designated Heritage Status →

December 15, 2018 Steve Rankine

The Chief Planner and Executive Director of the City Planning Division has submitted a report that recommends that City Council state its intention to designate the property at 35 Kingsway Crescent under the Ontario Heritage Act and include the property on the City's Heritage Register.

Latest Newsletter! →

November 18, 2018 Steve Rankine

The KPRI Fall 2018 Newsletter is now available

Berry Road Food Coop →

November 12, 2018 Steve Rankine

Their mission is to provide not-for-profit access to healthy, local and sustainable food to Etobicoke’s diverse residents in a way that balances the interests of shoppers, local food producers, workers, and community partners.

One man’s quest to restore native Canadian trees to Toronto →

October 21, 2018 Steve Rankine

In a four-metre-by-four-metre raised enclosure of soil and seeds, Mr. Davies, an ecologist, hopes to grow more than just a few hundred oak seedlings. His broader aim is to cultivate a social movement that will restore native tree species to their proper place atop the city’s botanical pecking order.

Introducing 'Treeconomics': How Street Trees Can Save Our Cities →

October 21, 2018 Steve Rankine

As a fight over 11 lime trees in Sheffield escalates, activists in cities all over the world are making the case for urban trees – to cut pollution, increase land value and even make you feel younger .

Community Street Sale

September 12, 2018 Steve Rankine

A street-sale, coordinated by the Sunnylea Kingsway Community Association, is taking place to raise funds to fight against over-development on Bloor Street between Prince Edward Drive and Montgomery Road.

Residents persist and win at Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB)

August 24, 2018 Steve Rankine

Svetlana and Dejan Bojic had a winning session in June 2017 where the Committee of Adjustment voted in their favour.

After that the developer (TACCON INC) made some extremely minimal adjustments (in centimeters) and went for another CoA hearing on September 28th. This time the Committee of Adjustment voted in their favour.

The Bojics then decided to go to the next level and submitted a Notice to Appeal to the Toronto Local Appeal Body on October 16. The Hearing was scheduled for March 3, 2018. This post shows what they did to win.

An information meeting Sept 5th about the proposed development at 3005 Bloor Street West

August 24, 2018 Steve Rankine

An information meeting about the proposed 8-storey building at 3005 Bloor Street West, initiated and presented by the City of Toronto, will be held at All Saints Kingsway Church on September 5th at 7:00 pm.