{"id":63406,"date":"2025-08-12T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63406\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:19:07","slug":"community-groups-oppose-condo-proposed-for-edge-of-east-toronto-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63406\/","title":{"rendered":"Community groups oppose condo proposed for edge of east Toronto ravine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chanting \u2018Protect our Ravine!\u2019, dozens of east-end residents and supporters gathered along Kingston Road on Monday morning to loudly express their opposition to a development proposed for a property on the northern edge of Glen Stewart Ravine.<\/p>\n

A developer wants to build an 11-storey condominium on the site, which borders the 11-acre greenspace just west of Beech Avenue.<\/p>\n

\"\"Proposed development site near Glen Stewart Ravine Gabriele Homes Ltd. wants to build an 11-storey condo develoment at this site. <\/p>\n

Considered by many as a beauty of the Beach, Glen Stewart Ravine runs from Kingston Road to Queen Street East, between Main Street and Victoria Park Avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an incredible amount of biodiversity in this beautiful piece of quiet that we find in the middle of the city, and, and it\u2019s really important that we protect these spaces,\u201d said Jennifer Pilkington, of the group Protect Our Ravines.<\/p>\n

This revised proposal comes 10 years after a smaller-scale version was first submitted to the city.<\/p>\n

The developer, Gabriele Homes Ltd., now wants to construct 99 housing units and ground-level retail. The proposed project is five storeys higher than the six permitted as of right, and is without the standard setback on the ravine side.<\/p>\n

\"\"Glen Stewart Ravine development proposal Gabriele Homes Ltd. wants to build an 11-storey condo development at the northern edge of Glen Stewart Ravine. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll set a precedent for every other developer that wants to encroach on our ravines and public spaces. \u2026 there has to be a line drawn somewhere,\u201d added Floyd Ruskin, also from Protect Our Ravines.<\/p>\n

Group member Michael Genin said the developer is \u201cso off base\u201d with what they\u2019re proposing, and it has \u201creally riled up a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, the city will be sitting down with Gabriele Homes Ltd. and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority for the first of three mediation sessions. <\/p>\n

The goal is to broker an agreement on the application, which will otherwise go to an Ontario Land Tribunal hearing next year at the request of the developer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe requested mediation to facilitate a collaborative discussion to respond to City Staff\u2019s and the communities\u2019 concerns. We feel this is the best way to manage ecological integrity and sensitivities of this development while generating new homes to help address our cities housing crisis,\u201d Gabriele Homes Ltd. told CTV News Toronto in a written statement.<\/p>\n

\"\"Glen Stewart Ravine condo rally Community groups held a rally on Aug. 11 to oppose a proposed condo development at the northern edge of Glen Stewart Ravine. <\/p>\n

Beaches-East York Coun. Brad Bradford, meanwhile, said \u201cbalancing with the ecological integrity of the Glen Stewart ravine is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why there\u2019s policies in place from the Toronto Region Conservation Authority that dictates setbacks from the ravine to protect it. That\u2019s going to be very important, as this application works through the cycle to make sure that we can protect those setbacks, protect the ravine, and still provide opportunities for the type of housing that we need to see here in Toronto,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Protect Our Ravines group insists they are not anti-development \u2013 just that this location is not the place for this project.<\/p>\n

With files from CTV News Toronto\u2019s Natalie Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chanting \u2018Protect our Ravine!\u2019, dozens of east-end residents and supporters gathered along Kingston Road on Monday morning to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-63406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}