Robert Wojtalski
The City of Toronto delineated 180+ potential Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) through a Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR) in June 2020. This Major Research Paper鈥檚 focus is to analyze the high-density development that has occurred/been planned for within the MTSAs and to evaluate if the density goals of the Growth Plan are being achieved.
An analysis was conducted in GIS that was based off of the 鈥淒evelopment Applications鈥� excel file from the City鈥檚 Open Data Portal. This analysis attempts to show the spatial distribution and intensity of the development points within the MTSA鈥檚.
The results show that there are some MTSA鈥檚 that have many high-density projects within their boundaries while there are others that do not. There is also a concentration of development occurring in the Downtown are and Younge & Eglinton Corridor areas. It is evident that some MTSA鈥檚 are meeting the density goals which others are not.