A stretch of Keele Street in Northwest Toronto fronting the former air base-turned urban park is seeing a rising tide of mid-rise residential redevelopment. The trend is set to continue with another proposal for the Downsview Park area as an application submitted to the City in the final weeks of 2020 seeks a Zoning By-law Amendment to permit a mid-rise…

Homeowners are allowed use the surface of a property easement, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the utilities underneath. If it does, costs add up.  The Ontario Court of Appeal has ordered two Oakville, Ont. homeowners to pay $40,000 in court costs and to remove a swimming pool they had built on top of a utility easement.The easement, in…

Today’s Daily Photo takes us to the QEW’s Islington Avenue overpass for a view of multiple Toronto area skylines. Facing east, this view from Marc Mitanis shows the expressway passing through the Humber Bay Shores neighbourhood skyline. In the background, the main Downtown skyline stretches from the CN Tower in the south to the Bloor-Yorkville skyline in the north. Toronto skyline, image by…