- 1. The Clock Tower and Civic Vandalism
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- ... skyline "which is a described heritage attribute" set out in paragraph 2.3.8 of the Heritage Conservation District Plan: "Panoramic views of the district from outside the district's boundaries are valuable ...
- Created on 18 November 2016
- 2. Heritage Watchdog steps into the Clock Tower debate
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- The President of the prestigious Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO), Catherine Nasmith, is to speak in Newmarket next month about the looming threat to the Town’s Heritage Conservation District. ...
- Created on 18 March 2016
- 3. Van Bynen set to give approval to condo blighting Newmarket’s historic Main Street
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- Backstory: The developer Bob Forrest bought the Clock Tower (the old Post Office) in the Town’s Lower Main Street Heritage Conservation District in 2011 for $2.3m and the adjacent properties at 184-194 ...
- Created on 16 November 2015
- 4. Clock Tower Statutory Meeting
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- ... has no redeeming virtues whatsoever. It is a classic example of the new brutalism in architecture. It is completely out of place in Main Street South. It will ruin the historic skyline and destroy the ...
- Created on 17 January 2014
- 5. Newmarket's Secondary Pla
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- ... the draft Secondary Plan on page 13 but, as I write, it has still not been posted on the Town’s website. The planners tell us they want an “iconic skyline” at Bell Corner (the proposed new name for the ...
- Created on 24 October 2013
- 6. Clock Tower plans get rough ride
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- ... views of the Clock Tower from Lorne looking down Park Avenue. The view down Main Street South from the brow of the hill would be destroyed. The historic downtown skyline as seen from Prospect would ...
- Created on 18 June 2013
- 7. Developers are out to wreck Newmarket's historic Main Stree
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- Newmarket's delightful Main Street is about to get an unwanted make-over. The Clock Tower Development, if councillors give it the go ahead, will superimpose a brutal new addition to the skyline in one ...
- Created on 01 April 2013
- 8. Councillors consider the costs - not the merits - of taking on the Slessors at the OMB
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- ... It is the first of the really big developments that will shape and dominate the Town’s skyline for a generation. Slessors want to press ahead with their original proposal for twin towers of 26 and 29 storeys, ...
- Created on 20 November 2012
- 9. Slessor Square goes to the OMB on 30 November 2012
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- The Ontario Municipal Board will start considering the controversial Slessor Square project on 30 November. They will decide whether its soaring twin towers will dominate the Newmarket skyline for a generation ...
- Created on 11 October 2012
- 10. Three cheers for Tom Vegh
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- ... development”: Lack of green space for residents. Traffic impact on Yonge Street. Height of towers and the shadow impact it will have on existing residential. The skyline transformation inherent ...
- Created on 17 March 2012
- 11. Another point of view
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- The twin towers at Slessor Square will dominate the skyline in Newmarket. No doubt about it. But their overbearing bulk and mass will be more intrusive in some places rather than others. After some prompting ...
- Created on 04 March 2012
- 12. Why Slessor Square should be rejected
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- The Slessor Square development should be rejected. If Slessor Square is given the go-ahead by Councillors they will first have to set aside key provisions of the Town’s Official Plan. Amendments to the ...
- Created on 11 February 2012
- 13. Slessor is the antithesis of good planning
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- ... it will set a precedent and the skyline will be utterly transformed within the space of a few years. And decisions still to be taken on the Town’s forthcoming Secondary Plan for Yonge/Davis will be pre-empted. ...
- Created on 11 February 2012
- 14. Slessor Square will Change the Face Of Newmarket Forever
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- ... these two towers are approved as submitted, they will forever change the skyline and the urban development process in our town by radically altering the reference point for future projects. We believe ...
- Created on 10 February 2012