Missing the message

I am reading some of the comments made about the post last night about the development that is going to happen along Bathurst street in the years to come. Perhaps I have given the impression that I think that our small number of residents are going to show up at this city hall meeting this week and expect that we are going to stop the project. I just want to clarify that I am fully aware that this project is going to happen whether we like it or not.

As I said in yesterday's post, the reps from the developer came to the meeting last night. They were a well practiced, well rehearsed machine of individuals ready to say that their "vision" for the community is the greatest thing since construction started and how this is the landscape of what is to come. In fact, there were comments made about the power they hold and the "big corporate machine" and you should have heard how we "offended" them by saying it. It is the truth, and they know it.

They know that they are a key factor in the growth of this community for the last 7 years and the years to come. They have already built 8 buildings and townhomes and now have three more buildings under construction, on less than 20 acres of land! That isn't even the new development that I am talking about here in my posts.

As the one rep said last night, "do you know how smart our vision was? That we saw Disera Motel here all those years ago and bought it and all the land around it for development? That is the vision for this community." She isn't really wrong....if you have lived here that long, you will all remember the Disera motel. You can all remember the big open space of land that used to sit north of Promenade Mall, that is now home to Walmart and Disera Drive.....which is a very alive thriving part of the community now. I get all of that.

If you build it, they will come....wasn't that the message in Field of Dreams? I am fully aware of that. My community has changed so much in the five years that I have lived here and will change again and again and again.

One more thing....the land that sits behind Constanzia retirement home, is already purchased and zoned for high density residential as well. The same as I said about the land just north of me and south of the high school at Bathurst and Beverley Glen.

In 10 years you will not recognize this area...it will be a new concrete jungle in the city above Toronto. It is not a bad thing necessarily, just something to think about.