News

March 12, ARA Board Meeting, 7 p.m. at  the Alliance Française, Room 303, 24 Spadina Road. All welcome!

Happy New Year!  We hope you and your family enjoyed the holiday season and had a positive start to the year.

The ARA is welcoming 2020 with a Meet N Eat gathering at EVOO Ristorante, 138 Avenue Road http://www.evooristorante.com/ on January 28 at 6:30 p.m. Please let us know if you’re coming by responding here.

The ARA would like to thank Workin’ Moms Productions IV Inc. for their generous donation of $500. They filmed in the Annex this summer. We ask film and production companies to make donations to the ARA in recognition of the disruption that filming can cause in our neighbourhoods.

Transparency at the ARA

Many residents may be wondering about the criteria the Annex Residents’ Association uses when it reviews developments in our neighborhood, ranging single-storey residential additions or multi-story condo developments.

The ARA has now published a guide Reviewing Projects in the Annex: Guidance for Proponents to bring more certainty to what can often be a stressful process.

The guide gives proponents suggestions on how to satisfy the four big questions the ARA will be concerned about:

• what is there now?
• what is being proposed?
• what are likely impacts; to whom? and
• what is the timing of the project?

Proponents are welcome to make presentations to the ARA’s Planning and Zoning Committee, which meets monthly.

For more information, contact:

Edward Leman
Co-chair, Planning and Zoning Committee leman@chreod.com orplanningandzoning@theara.org tel: (416) 966-1144

or

Ko Van Klaveren
Co-chair, Planning and Zoning Committeejac.vanklaveren@hotmail.com or planningandzoning@theara.org