Safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community are essential, as well as promoting and celebrating Toronto's diversity in a thoughtful way. It is increasingly hard to find fun events that are out of the ordinary in Toronto... many nightclubs, venues and spaces have closed in favour of condos and gentrification. The city is getting increasingly sterile for people to live in. Liveability is not just good transportation circulating, affordability etc. I commend some of the comments regarding culture and arts, we need more of this in Toronto and I think East Harbour could excel at being an arty district. I also would like this place to have a European feel in terms of character, putting people over cars, a joie de vivre of sorts. I am quite scared that this will feel like Hudson yards or other developments like Canary Wharf - it always seems that these highly commercial sites always aim to be entertainment or cultural hubs of sorts but it never comes to fruition, it almost always feels banal (having done business in both cities multiple times). Please think more about what makes neighbourhoods exciting and inspiring - think beyond libraries and community centres. More considerate work needs to be done on how to inspire character here, the public realm ideas were fairly interesting, but there still seemed to be an emphasis on big-box retailers and less of an ambitious plan challenging any kind of planning binary around people, recreation, and culture.

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