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RSS FeedsHow `monster homes´ are transforming Toronto neighbourhoods
(The Star Travel)

 
 

20 march 2019 23:10:03

 
How `monster homes´ are transforming Toronto neighbourhoods
(The Star Travel)
 


Harvey Knopman’s spidey senses gave him an inkling in 2010 that his Bedford Park-Nortown neighbourhood was about to undergo a major transformation.Knopman and his neighbours had noticed increasing inquiries about their appetite to sell the bungalows that line their leafy North York area. Word spread that several of his neighbours decided to sell. Then developers bought a neighbourhood landmark — The Church of St. Philip the Apostle — on Caribou Rd.“The Anglican church sold out and the developers started building on the church lot around 2012,” said Knopman, who’s lived in the area for 25 years.Over the next seven years, Knopman, 73, watched as the church and several decades-old homes along Caribou Rd. were torn down and the foundations for ritzy abodes started to take shape.Today, the south side of Caribou Rd. near Bathurst St. is lined with newly built, large houses. Across the street, a home at 180 Caribou Rd. dwarfs its neighbours, which include two vacant bungalows fenced up with boarding.“It’s not the house, it’s the land they’re after,” Knopman said of the remaining bungalows on the strip. “They’re going to knock it (the bungalows) down and transform into monster homes.”It’s a phenomenon seen across the city — smaller, older homes in Toronto’s residential neighbourhoods are being bought and torn down, replaced by much larger homes with a much larger price tag. Experts say the rebuilds are the result of Toronto’s heated housing market combined with restrictive zoning rules that favour detached and semi-detached homes.“The current housing policy permits expensive houses to become more expensive,” said urban planner Cheryll Case, who co-authored a 2017 report dubbed Protecting the Vibrancy of Residential Neighbourhoods, which looked at a number of housing issues including how redevelopment of detached homes was changing the face of several n ...


 
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