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This house in Annex has a nice historic vibe to it. There is a lot of work being done to it in a caring and great way. Looking at the images below you can see they are restoring the front of the house, adding a new front door and other items, while adding an addition on the back. Their choice to renovate the house in this manner carefully retains the building street facade and historical character. Also it maintains the appearance of the street-scape.
New rear elevaton
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This restaurant at 1620 Bloor Street West, was involved in a 3rd alarm fire on March 6, 2009 – and is now undergoing restoration. Fire images link
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This small house on London Ave in Ward 20 will seemingly soon morph to two semi detached houses. One of the interesting items about the new houses pictured above in rendering, is the front facade relationship to the side elevation. From the front – viewing the two homes – if built – people will see a facade that works within the community of built styles in the area, but in reality the there will be no peaked roof as evident on the side elevation the peak form part of the second floor.
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From their notice…
The 2nd annual Roncesvalles Area Yard Sale (RAYS) is coming!! Saturday May 23, 2009 from 9am-3pm (rain date: May 24, 2009). Brought to you by the Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents’ Association in conjunction with the High Park Residents’ Association and the Sunnyside Community Association.
Sell your stuff from the comfort of your front yard (or garage)! Buy things from your neighbours! Bring your friends and let them explore one of the city’s best neighbourhoods!
Please register your yard sale by contacting Chris via email at ronces.yardsale AT gmail.com
We are again asking participants to donate 10% of their sales to the Wabash Community Centre/Sorauren Park Fieldhouse (c/o 101 Fermanagh Avenue, Toronto, ON M6R 1M1)
www.buildwabashnow.org/
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This house on Vine Ave which has sat fire damaged for over a year, is for up for sale, which surely will make the community happy as the house has been a low cost – landlord neglected house for over 20 years.
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Valley Crescent Rd which lies in an what must be part of the Black Creek watershed area, is a road populated by medium size business primarily in the construction trades. It is a road with rough pavement probably caused by all the heavy traffic. Simply it’s area where you would not want to park your freshly washed car, unless you wanted the opportunity to wash it again.
Yet with all this industrial/construction use at the end of this street you find the above pictured garden – so well kept. The activities and care taken by the businesses on this road demonstrate how inner city industry is needed and participates into defining the city fabric so richly.
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Great clothes, great cause!
The Mother’s Day Clothing Swap was a huge success! Wise Daughters received a mountain of fabulous fashions and raised far more money than anticipated. Because we had much more clothing than we could even display, there will be a Part 2…
June 13 from 9 – 2, as part of the Junction-wide yard sale, we’ll put out all the rest of our donated women’s wear. This time, just for fun, it’ll cost $10 for all you can stuff into the biggest Wise Daughters paper bag. Once again, 100% of the proceeds will benefit the shelter.
Wise Daughters Craft Market
3079B Dundas St. West at Quebec
When attempting to comment people were being asked to login, which of course is not right.
The problem has now been fixed – and comments can be posted in the usual manner.
…thanks to evryone who emailed about this issue.
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Click on the image below to read an article of the West Toronto Historical Societies recent Amalgamation Celebration.
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View of the construction process of The Village by High Park, Options for Homes, development just north of Keele St. And Dundas St West. In the smaller image above you can see the large wall designed to defect trains as the blog was told by site workers. This view is from the end of Monarch Rd., a roadway which is quietly disappearing as the railroads encrouch on it.
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While Toronto city council postpones voting on a by-law that would regulate the construction of green roofs for certain types of new buildings, one Junction resident has just installed her own green roof, as well as rain barrels to water her garden. Though the Breakfast Television coverage of the installation had to be deferred due to technical difficulties, on May 7 Cristina Senjug’s garage-top green roof was installed, despite the fact that neither the proposed by-law or Toronto’s Live Green incentive program addresses residential green roofs.
Cristina has been receiving requests for information about how she went about this project and is happy to pass along the companies that provided the rain barrels and installed the green roof:
Rain barrels
http://www.algreenproducts.com/gogreen
http://www.gardensupermart.com/garden-news/waterloo-record-2008-11-12.pdf
Green Roofs
www.xeroflor.ca
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Jennifer from BT, the Senjugs, et al
Also on site that day planting native plants was Future Watch.
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CULTURE WORKS – a feature event of the BIG on Bloor Street Festival is a precedent setting street fair celebrating the arts and bringing the best that Toronto has to offer to Bloor and Lansdowne. Major cultural institutions and organizations like the AGO and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art sit alongside local Garnet/Abrams, annhomanART, Funktion Gallery and many others to offer unique and interactive programming for young and old.
Labels: Big on Bloor, culture works, festival
The Junction Residents Association was saddened to learn that the new website we launched this past two weeks is on one of the social networking sites not accessible by city employees. We learned this after inviting our Ward 13 Parks contacts to join the site and the groups and forums that have formed to discuss Junction parks issues, and they told us they couldn’t access it. The platform we are using for our website is Ning, designed specifically to connect and organize people around a common cause. We think that denying city employees the ability to connect with the residents they are hired to help is completely counter-productive and invite you to contact Stuart Green from the Office of the Mayor at 416.338.7119 or stuart.green@toronto.ca if you feel the same. We will be contacting him and other city representatives formally to do the same.
Thanks,
JRA
This trailer and a tarped cube truck parked on Vine Ave between Pacific and Keele are from the empty lot at #51. The city gave notice to the owner (image below) that the lot, filled with various items and old vehicles, could not be used for outdoor storage and would need to be cleared. It seems the street itself will be the new storage space for some of the items until residents complain and the city tows them away. The question is, who will be ultimately paying for those tows and what happens to the old man who has been residing in this trailer for years? The JRA, at the request of local residents, will be making inquiries into the story behind this story.
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May 16th 2009 data from city inspection site
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One of the buildings at Pacific Ave and Bloor St.
The National Post Newspaper ran a article yesterday on the boarded-up block of Bloor St. west just west of Keele St. [link to article] [map location window 1844-1854 Bloor St west.]
An excerpt from the article…
A hearing next week will decide the fate of a boarded-up block of brick houses overlooking High Park, which the owner hopes to demolish to make way for a new condo building.
W.J. Properties applied for a permit to demolish the block of houses along Bloor Street West in March, 2006, but council refused to approve it since the owner didn’t offer up re-development plans with the application. Senior city planner David Spence said city staff is worried the block will sit vacant after demolition — decreasing density in the neighbourhood — and they want to know how existing rental units will be replaced. [link to article]
…and some well thought words from the local Councillor who is spot on the block will be used for development simply because of it’s location, in the City of Toronto retaining single family zoning on Bloor Street is probably not a high priority nor a reasonable planning use.
Councillor Bill Saundercook (Parkdale-High Park) said the houses are attractive, but will inevitably make way for kind development.
“It’s a bit of an anomally in that the houses are still standing there,” he said.
Council often makes developers revise their plans repeatedly before giving out building permits. If W.J. Properties tears down the Bloor West buildings before this sometimes-lengthy process begins, the lot might stay empty for many months.
Mr. Saundercook is more concerned about involving the public in redevelopment plans than how long the site might sit vacant. “I would like to see a very cohesive plan that I believe an informed developer could make,” he said, “and that would include how long they speculated for this site to be sitting vacant, what they plan on doing while it is vacant and then try to hold them as rigidly as possible to a development plan.”
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