The DMRI is investigating whether there is an opportunity to have a roadway such as the Donway West made into a ‘complete street’. Complete streets are those which are “safe, comfortable and convenient for travel by foot, bicycle, transit and automobile, and they are safe and comfortable for people with disabilities, children, families and the [...]

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As the name suggests, this is a team of medical professionals that have located their practices in the Don Mills community at 20 Wynford Drive (north side near Gervais, across from the SuperStore) and they are now accepting new patients. You can find out more on their web-site www.donmillshealth.com or by calling 416-444-6161 to book [...]

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Protecting Don Mills Neighbourhoods through Heritage Conservation District Designation The Ontario Heritage Act enables any municipality in Ontario to designate an area as a Heritage Conservation District (HCD). Designation occurs where there has been a proposal to protect the heritage characteristics of a given area initiated by one or more property owners in the area, [...]

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Backyard Planting Program Takes Root in Toronto Did you know that approximately 80% of Toronto’s urban trees are rooted in private property? This means that the City’s Urban Forestry Services section is responsible for only about 20% of our urban trees. The rest is up to private property owners! A local, non-profit group called LEAF [...]

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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s DMRI Garden awards and thanks to all of the gardeners who keep Don Mills beautiful and a pleasure in which to live.

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This initiative of the Toronto Foundation for Student Success is to bring a world regulation size cricket pitch to the Thorncliffe and Flemingdon communities. The project embraces and celebrates bio-diversity and cultural enrichment in one of the City’s Priority Neighbourhoods. It is planned to included a bioswale, butterfly garden, interpretive marsh, an urban forest, vegetable [...]

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Heritage Toronto iTours let you visit areas of the city that are difficult to traverse with larger groups of people, and are a convenient way to discover our city’s history. iTours feature archival photographs and take you on a photographic journey of the people, places and events that have shaped Toronto. “The Don Mills iTour [...]

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For an outline of this project slated to open in 2013 and located on Wynford Drive west of the DVP overpass, please click on this link.

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Jane – who also calls herself ‘Duchess of Don Mills’ authors some lovely anecdotes about our community, Don Mills. “This blog is my love letter to Toronto’s best neighbourhood, Don Mills. I’ll talk about anything and everything DM – old and new.” Have a look. Add your contribution to Jane’s retrospective about life and times [...]

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Update from Councillor Information Meetings Sept. 22nd, 2009 Many serious concerns were raised, a large proportion involving the changes permitted to built-form (including higher height limits, a new height definition and reduced setbacks). There were additional specific concerns including, for example, commercial buildings in Mixed Use areas potentially being constructed right up to the lot [...]

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