Dear Marcus,

Anyone using the idiom "not in my back yard" to describe Parkdale, clearly has not spent much time here.  Everything and everyone has a place in Parkdale: condos, high rises, halfway houses, assisted living; capacity to handle it or not.  We have a lot of experience accommodating all sorts of housing no [other] neighbourhood would willingly accept.  Developers and city planners would do well to listen.

Don't take our word for it, I challenge you to spend a day at King and Dufferin and let us know how these new commuters are going to cram themselves on the bus and streetcars already at capacity by the time they reach that corner which is, for those who don't know, very close to the beginning of their routes.  And the cars you envision them leaving behind, they will be parked where?  These condos, will cost how much? Will our Millennials be able to afford them?