February 4, 2012

Grocery store plan riles local community

by Lacy Atalick

A proposal to build a two-storey grocery store and LCBO on the former Brennan Pontiac site has been deferred.

At a Feb. 17 committee of adjustment meeting, approximately 50 community members showed up to express concern over the proposed plans. The proposal to develop the northwest corner of Bayview Avenue and Broadway Avenue was deferred because a full site plan is necessary to assess the impact.

But residents are concerned with the size of the building.

“The local residents feel it is not a minor variance,” said Andre Leroux, vice-president of the Sherwood Park Residents’ Association, who attended the meeting. Under the plan, the building would occupy almost 96 per cent of the lot; however, the site is only zoned for 33 per cent capacity.

Residents are also concerned with traffic and maintaining the Bayview strip. Coun. Cliff Jenkins said the size of the building would compare to the Loblaws at Bayview Avenue and Sheppard Avenue.

This article appears in the March 2010 issue of North Toronto Post

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