General Suburban Updates and Rumours

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It would appear the Catholic school board is seeking to build a new school at 50 Thaler Avenue. They already had one there that was demolished sometime after 2015 but there is a new application for the site.

Official Plan Amendment to facilitate a land swap between the City and Catholic School Board to allow for a city owned park and school on the subject lands.

The previous school was in a poor state, but I wasn't sure if they were going to keep the property or sell it because you could definitely fit a nice little subdivision there with small apartments or townhomes. I guess this answers that, however. I'm sure they're needing to expand soon.

I noticed a sign on the fence of the property here so I got off the bus to take a look (I could have looked it up but...whatever haha). It appears they wish to rebuild St. Patrick School, remove the park to build staff parking and then rebuild the existing park where the old school parking used to be off of Thaler Avenue. Visitor parking would be along River Road and they will build a driveway entrance off of that.

Are there a lot of Catholics around this side of the city or something? WCDSB is also proposing that massive grade 7-12 mega school 5 minutes down the street and there is already an existing Catholic primary school about 1 minute from where the mega school is proposed.