“You like living in the shadows?” I asked my partner. “Those things are going to be so big, they’ll block the sky, and we won’t see the sun.”
My partner laughed at me. We were talking about the new massive buildings coming to our area at Glenholme and Eglinton.
The buildings will be nearly 40 storeys, almost 400 feet in height. Each building will be 22 meters across. And they will be side by side, twin towers. Way over the eight storeys the City had planned for Eglinton.
Some people, like my partner, believe the buildings are needed. “Big cities need lots of housing. Without new housing, we’ll have unaffordable rents,” she says. “Higher density means more people paying taxes which means better city services.
“If you don’t like big buildings, go live in the suburbs,” she added for effect.
But I like my sky. Each morning when I wake up, I make myself a coffee and go outside on the front porch before traffic starts. I take in the quiet and look up. Light blue sky and fluffy clouds.
The City isn’t in charge of regulating building size anymore. Developers can go as big as they want. The rest of us are condemned to live in the shadows of Doug Ford’s developer paradise.
