Dear Mayor Chow:

230 Fightback will be bringing a delegation to City Hall, on Tuesday, July 18, at 11:00 AM, and we are requesting that you agree to meet with us at that time. The issue we wish to put before you is the disturbing plan of KingSett Capital to build a forty-seven storey luxury condo at the corner of Dundas and Sherbourne.

The Downtown East is, as you will be very aware, an extremely hard pressed community and there is no doubt that such an upscale development in its midst would drive up rental costs and further the loss of vital services in the area. It would be a singularly harmful project and we are determined to prevent it from happening.

For many years, the call for social housing at this very site has been advanced and, when KingSett outbid the City for ownership of this site, a great deal of disappointment and anger ensued. We are asking that you intervene with every means at your disposal so as to make sure that the housing needs of people in the Downtown East will take priority over the profits of a powerful developer.

Quite obviously, your election as Mayor of Toronto has created some very high expectations. Many people are hoping that there will be major changes for the better. The situation at Dundas and Sherbourne is a key example of all that is wrong with provision of housing in this city and it cries out for your intervention.

Please feel free to contact us if you need any clarification or to discuss particulars around the 18^th but, if that isn’t considered necessary, we will be there on that day at 11:00 AM.

Yours truly,

230 Fightback