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Blair Scorgie 🍁
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Husband, father, planner, urban designer, consultant, sessional lecturer, volunteer, author, advocate, and Torontonian. Views are my own. www.scorgieplanning.com.
Good luck, man.
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'll take it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy to connect you if interested, Pamela! Let me know.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My presentation and rebuttal to opposing parties can be viewed here -
youtube.com/watch?v=Qdvq... beginning at 2:11:00.
Committee of Adjustment, Public Hearing, Toronto and East York, November 12, 2025 (AM)
YouTube video by Toronto City Planning
youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Grateful as always to our client and to the full consultant team for their commitment to delivering high-quality, context-sensitive rental housing.

Projects like this demonstrate how gentle density can fit seamlessly into existing neighbourhoods.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Huge thank-you to the Committee Members for their thoughtful review, and to City Planning, Urban Forestry, and Transportation Services for their constructive feedback throughout the process.

Collaboration matters — and it showed here.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This approval is especially meaningful because it appears to be one of the first Major Streets applications to receive support from a Committee of Adjustment in Toronto.

A promising sign that this new policy tool is beginning to take effect.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The project is a 3-storey, 10-unit purpose-built rental building on a Major Street — exactly the kind of small-scale, well-designed housing the City envisioned when it created the new Major Streets framework.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hahaha
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I agree. My only hope is that all politicians and political staff representing the Former City of Toronto and East York agree to work together on this.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It happened with laneway suites before being expanded city-wide, and it happened again with sixplexes. In both cases, there was coordination to extend permissions to the former City of Toronto and East York at a minimum. It remains to be seen if that same approach will be applied here.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
To be fair, Architects can be outstanding story tellers. I often tell planning students they can learn from Architects in this respect.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This turned out quite well.
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Architects do not know how to write. Planners know how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thanks Dan!
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM