Alderwood Collegiate Institute Erased with Jackson Creek as a Bundle

Once upon a time there was a high school that allowed Jackson Creek to flow freely through its property.  Also once upon a time there were city/government officials that demanded out of developers at least one lot allocation for parkland.

Right now the impugned city official for Etobicoke-Lakeshore displays lack of ethics (2) when it comes to developer relations.  In fact South Etobicoke is famous for such hanky-panky (2).  That's how we end up with a final design over a new block that erases any public green space or traces of natural heritage that was there and maximises the plots for developers:

Jackson Creek flowed through the school grounds as follows from an aerial photo:

Up until recently there was come green space on the creek bed favoured by dog walkers.

Now it is all dug up in the implementation of the plan above:

Predictably the water pools where the creek used to flow, as it lies on the landscape formed by Jackson over millennia before the planners decided to delete it.

Jackson Cleek flowed through the pipes unearthed during construction in order to provide access to the school's parking lot.  There is a much longer pipe buried under the road to the south.  

Alderwood Collegiate Institute can also be remembered though these pictures.  The abandoned building was even visited by some fat positive photography troupe.

The development got about 40 seconds of official time by TRCA in regards to Jackson Creek (Page3 Section 8).  Kudos.  Their request is filed with the city.  Their efforts were in complete vain, as can be seen with the final development plan. Predicted fruits, given the ways and practices of the governmental officials. 

At least the elementary schools to the north gets to keep its green-space for now.  It features a culvert collecting with Douglas Park (Just Add Water) and a dry bed.  

Curiously, the groundskeeper crudely capped the culvert from Douglas Park with concrete.  Maybe the inflow of water was unwelcome without a proper further outlet.

Here is a view of the pigeonhole development from the north.

There aren't too many areas where Jackson Creek may be daylighted.  Looks like this sliver of land was lost forever in favour of 15 houses crammed like sardines along a former schoolyard's edge.

Editor's note:  this is me completing the backlog/ drafts of the project.  Unfortunately, the owner of the idea retired this blog and soon enough we will be archiving this 'act local' neighbourhood project towards more abstract, inconsequential, academic, 'act global' movements that is normal for the people these days to get behind (like being a Global Warming believer and sharing/ subscribing what politicians/ celebrities say about it).  If someone want to pick up on this thankless task, feel free to use/ re-purpose the contents of this blog.