By clicking on the link above, your computer should generate an e-mail with a subject line about 4099 Erin Mills Parkway to the City Planning Department and to Councillor Matt Mahoney that looks like this in the body. You could also copy and paste if that is easier.

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[You should edit this draft e-mail to make it personal to you.]

To:
City of Mississauga
Planning Department

And to:
Councillor Matt Mahoney, Ward 8

My name is [enter Your Name]. 

My address is:

9999 Your Street or Crescent,
Mississauga, ON
L5L 2M1

[Enter your full street address so they can mail you information about meetings. They also need to know that you reside near the proposed Development]. 

My telephone number is: 905-999-9999 [Enter your phone number so they can phone you about meetings.]

I am a resident of [Your Street or Crescent] in Ward 8. I oppose this application, as proposed to date, by the Applicant, QUEENSCORP.  

Please place me on the mailing list for any community meeting or opportunity to be heard. 

I have had an opportunity to read some of the documents filed by the Applicant with the City Planning Department respecting the proposed development at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway. I have a number of concerns.  [Delete any that don't apply to you or add your own]:

1. The Application is inconsistent with the original Erin Mills Plan which created the neighbourhoods of Pheasant Run, Arbour Green, and Olde Burnhamthorpe, all served by a "neighbourhood shopping centre" at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway. These 3 neighbourhoods are served by one "finder street", Folkway Drive, which is a circular "minor collector" connecting the crescents and other short streets within each neighbourhood, to the major "spine" (Erin Mills Parkway) and the thoroughfares / "major collectors" (Winston Churchill, Glen Erin, Burnhamthorpe) . Folkway Drive has only two outlets in Arbour Green and only two outlets (through Sawmill Valley Drive) in Olde Burnhamthorpe. Folkway Drive, is not an east-west thoroughfare like Eglinton, Burnhamthorpe, Collegeway, and Dundas and so is not a suitable location for high-density housing. It is, however, the planned location for a "neighbourhood shopping centre" serving the residents of the three neighbourhoods with walkable groceries, retail shops, and essential services. The original plan for Erin Mills, and the plan as it evolved over the years, provided for low-density housing in these three neighbourhoods, with some medium-density housing immediately surrounding the "neighbourhood shopping centre." High-density apartment-style housing was planned and was built in the area of Erin Mills Centre along Eglinton and on Burnhamthorpe and Collegeway (near South Common and the university).

2. The Application proposing multiple high-density mid-rise buildings doesn't fit the surrounding housing with respect to height or density. 

3. I acknowledge that we have a need for more affordable housing in Mississauga. Housing is a human right in Canada. In-filling of available spaces with new housing is appropriate, but that in-filling should not reduce the number of existing prospering retail shops and services, that are walkable, in the centre of planned residential neighbourhoods. The Application ignores the importance of the existing neighbourhood shops and services to our health and well-being. We can walk to these shops. There is currently only one vacancy among the shops. The existing shops need to be safe-guarded in any revised plan by the Applicant.

4. The Application doesn't specifically include affordable family-sized units.  The Application, as proposed, does not address the Premier's concern and the City's concern that we need to build more affordable family-sized units.

5. The Erin Mills/Folkway intersection is already dangerous for cars and pedestrians. The Applicant has no plan for berm or trees to control noise and protect pedestrians. 

6. The Application contains no study respecting additional traffic and re-routed traffic (for Olde Burnhamthorpe residents) on Sawmill Valley Drive. There is no traffic study of the intersection of Sawmill Valley Drive and Burnhamthorpe Road or the intersection of Sawmill Valley Drive and Mississauga Road. The Application does not contemplate the impact on children attending the two schools on Sawmill Valley Drive.

I understand that we need more affordable housing in Mississauga but this plan is inadequate. The Application should be rejected at this time.

I am open to reviewing revised plans by the Developer.

Thank you for your careful consideration of this planned development in the context of the existing carefully planned neighbourhoods of Erin Mills South. It is important to note that Erin Mills was, and is, already a well-planned community that began in April 1969. That plan developed over many years but throughout its evolution has offered “one of the most imaginative planned communities on the continent.” (See "Erin Mills New Town" A Proposal by Don Mills Developments Limited April 1969, Foreward by A. E. Diamond)

Yours very truly,

[enter Your Name or Signature]