Led by two provincial agencies – Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx – the Ontario government has identified the Guildwood GO Station area as a site for a Transit-Oriented Community (TOC). TOCs are intended to concentrate housing, jobs, and services near major transit to support ridership, reduce car dependence, and address housing supply pressures across the Toronto region.

The proposed plans call for extreme density of approximately 2,500 housing units through the construction of tall towers (two at 60 storeys, one 40, one 35 and two more at 30) on the north parking lot of the GO station. The consultant’s report uses other nearby proposals to justify this development application, but the report ignores that many of the nearby proposals have not moved from the conceptual stage to building in decades. For example, the most recent application at the former car dealership at 4121 Kingston Road is proposed to have 1,029 housing units (additional towers at 38, 29, 13, and 12 stories) but this site has remained undeveloped for ~10-15 years. Even if this adjacent site were to be approved and constructed, there would be 3,500+ new housing units to the north side of the Guildwood GO station. This magnitude of development would be significantly out of character for this community and would have many negative impacts.