My name is Anna Kral and I am a graduate student at York University. I am currently working on completing my Master in Environmental Studies focusing on Urban Planning. My research has to do with the inclusivity versus exclusivity of community members in the planning process in the West Queen West neighbourhood. I would love to have a member of your residents’s association or any resident of the area that is interested take part. All it would require would be one hour of your time for an interview and then possibly a subsequent half hour group interview (about 5 people). The questions that I would ask would deal directly with the change that is occurring in the west end of the West Queen West neighbourhood and what could be done to get the community more involved in the planning process. If you are interested in taking part I would greatly appreciate it. From this study I will write my Major Paper which will include recommendations on ways to change the process to be more inclusive. Subsequently the document will be sent to the City of Toronto Planning Department for consideration.

You can contact me at anna.kral@gmail.com or at 647-262-6545 anytime.

Thank you in advance.
Anna Kral

Minto is the builder of the two towers and management I think, been speaking to them from the start with no result. They did offer me a job saying looking for LEED people like me.

When I mentioned that it’s not just this kitchen system not to code but the hole dam building does not meet code (A.S.H.R.A.E. 90.1) Feel sorry for all the people who purchased condo’s there, If they only knew.

both the base engineer and the rest. engineer said Minto told them to put the ecology unit in the loading area. So if that’s the case (what is not right, since it’s the engineers paying for the liability insurance) they should do the right thing and move the equipment to high level so this is not an issue of noise, not to mention the “grease” smell, some engineers i work with say they don’t work in removing the grease, but the noise sure works

Can we post pictures on here? If so I can take a picture of this unit and post it, so you can see the locations and the crap going into the intake/kitchen. I know I’ll never eat there.

Have you talked to the management of the establishment? Sometimes that can be helpful…

But seems no one cares for this or any of the other “infractions”, just surprised that the Health issue is not a concern…not to mention the staff smoking directly below the intake, so much for the 90 meter smoking distance.

I have a noise problem with a restaurant across the lane “The Keg” at Y&E.

I assume it’s coming from the equipment from the kitchen system at grade and 2nd floor exhaust outlet.

It’s an ecology unit (to remove grease from the air on kitchen exhaust hoods). It seems some engineers are using this new equipment to avoid bringing the exhaust outlet to “high-level/high roof level”. This equipment must still maintain N.F.P.A. code and min. 10′-0″ (3 meters) from property line and/or openings for both intake and exahust outlets, and seems this unit next to me does not meet code (in so many ways) but still nothing is being done. The noise from this equipment runs’ 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

I did call the City and other bodies and took almost 6 months to get a sound reading…and been over a month since the reading and still waiting for the results, I called yesterday asked for the results via email (and not to mention they did not do the test correctly was here no more then 5 min.). And still waiting for some action from my local Councillor almost a year now.

Thus I’m thinking of hiring my own engineer with the correct equipment to do the test correctly (the $60 radio shack device does not meet the requirment of the code NPC 205).

May need to move, can’t handle the 24/7 noise.
Very pissed off resident,
Sven

Apart from talking to the Drake, you could also get in touch w. the Councillor’s office: councillor_giambrone@toronto.ca .

Is the loading/unloading illegal? If so, you could try calling the police – 406-808-2222

I don’t know what the process is to petition for something like the creation of a loading zone. You could try the councillor’s office. Or try access toronto: accesstoronto@toronto.ca or 416-338-0338- they’re the general first-contact at city call who can put you in touch w. the right people.