Community Consultation Meeting

On June 24th 2025 a virtual community consultation meeting was held. Below you can read the statement the MRA made in that meeting and can be heard in the recording:

In 2023, Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario had a plan that would have served the needs of South Etobicoke and the residents of Mimico. As part of provincial efforts, the so-called Transit-Oriented Community (TOC) would have created:

• Affordable housing
• A new GO station with 300 parking spots
• and a new bridge over Royal York

This was a good plan, bringing to Mimico many things we need.

But we are here tonight because that plan was cancelled by Metrolinx, the zoning revoked by the minister, and the new proposal has changed. The proposal for this site no longer includes any of these things that would have benefited the people.

Meanwhile, what hasn’t changed is the desperate need for affordable housing and transit improvements.

With a growing population of residents in South Etobicoke living in cars and tents, it’s hard to believe that Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure and Minister of Housing — together with Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx — have been unable to secure a new agreement that would deliver what people here actually need – Affordable Housing and Transit Improvements. Metrolinx still can’t provide an estimated year when the station will be accessible. Every day you can see parents with strollers stuck on the platform in disbelief that in 2025 a station without elevator can exist, in Ontario!

This proposal in its current form does not serve the needs of our community, which were correctly identified in the 2023 TOC agreement.

We call on Ontario’s Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Transportation — together with Infrastructure Ontario, Metrolinx and the City — to create a plan that delivers true community benefit on this piece of land that is arguable the most important in all of Mimico.

We all know Mimico will change — and would appreciate if the responsible government entities consider the needs of the people when considering such impactful proposals.

We are compiling a list of concerns we will be sharing in the coming days, but it’s already clear that residents are not happy about the zero visitor parking in this proposal, or the creative description of “mixed-use” when it’s really just 1,111 condos and a convenience store next to a congested junction below a neglected train station.

The people of South Etobicoke deserve something here they can be proud of.

The residents of Mimico deserve a proposal that truly serves their needs.

Thank you.