Chris Moise is the new councilor for Ward 13 that includes Cabbagetown. The Cabbagetown Heritage Conservation District Advisory Committee asked him about his support for heritage preservation in Cabbagetown:
“As a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, I have a deep appreciation for its historic social and architectural character. As our city grows and the City’s Official Plan is updated in the next term to address our housing crisis and reflect provincial growth targets, I look forward to working with the Cabbagetown HCD Advisory Committee and the larger community to discuss how we can preserve the unique character and heritage of Cabbagetown and promote the kinds of compatible, multiplex type density that already exists within our community.
Cabbagetown is entirely within the Downtown Toronto Urban Growth Centre and this area, along with Yonge and Eglinton, is expected to accommodate approximately three-quarters of all new residential development. Toronto’s focus on limiting new housing across the rest of the city has contributed to a “tall-and-sprawl” approach to development that sees almost all new housing in our community come in the form of high-rise towers while developers skip over large swaths of our city to build environmentally damaging suburbs on agricultural land and the greenbelt. I will advocate for smarter and more sustainable policies that will make gentle density projects, mid-rise, and multi-tenant housing more viable so that more families can live in more places across our amazing city.”
