LAWRENCE-ALLEN REVITALIZATION STUDY

The Lawrence-Allen neighbourhood is located in Toronto’s “Inner Suburbs” and is facing significant intensification pressures. planningAlliance was commissioned by the City of Toronto to develop a comprehensive planning framework for the community, which addresses these pressures head-on and serves as the background study for a Secondary Plan.

The resulting plan identifies how and where intensification should occur and should not occur, and explored ways of urbanizing the Allen Expressway, which bisects the site. As part of our work, planningAlliance led an extensive stakeholder engagement program, which included intense negotiations with a number of landowners and would-be developers, including Toronto Community Housing Corporation, a public housing provider seeking to redevelop 1200 units of social housing with a dense, mixed-use neighbourhood.

CITY OF TORONTO
TORONTO, CANADA
2008-ONGOING
300 ha