Talk:Harbourfront, Toronto

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would this be the same harbourfront that hosts plenty of arts/cultural festivals year after year? Chensiyuan 03:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Extent of Harbourfront
"Harbourfront" is not synonymous with Toronto's waterfront or Toronto harbour. I'm not sure where this notion came from that Harbourfront extends all the way to, and includes, East Bayfront. While neighbourhoods in Toronto have no official boundaries, I have always understood Harbourfront to include those portions of the waterfront that were redeveloped in the 1960s to early 1980s for residential, recreational and retail uses. The waterfront itself is divided into a few distinct neighbourhoods/precincts: Harbourfront, East Bayfront, West Don Lands, Keating, Lower Don Lands, Port Lands. While some of the boundaries between these precincts are not always precise, it's fair to say that Harbourfront does not extend all the way to the Parliament Street Slip. The map used in the infobox shows East Bayfront as part of the Harbourfront fringe area (for lack of a better word) - I will ask SimonP why he chose to include East Bayfront in the map area (he may have had a source of some kind that I have not been able to find).

Harbourfront's eastern boundaries are not clear: some interpretations have it extending only to York Street, while the study that lead to the current Central Waterfront Secondary Plan has Harbourfront extending east to the western boundary of the Redpath site. From a land use planning perspective, the original Secondary Plan (Part II Plan) for Harbourfront had Stadium Road and York Street as the respective west and east community boundaries. Realtors, who are usually the ones unofficially labelling neighbourhoods, typically have it going to Yonge. The City, for purposes of the BIA and the local community improvement plan, have the neighbourhood extending from Bathurst to Yonge (see this and this). I could not find any source that had East Bayfront, or even the lands up to the west side of the Jarvis Street slip.

Just to confuse matters more, people referring to "Harbourfront" sometimes actually mean Harbourfront Centre.

I will remove the map and the references to East Bayfront. I will contact SimonP. If anyone can find a reliable reference stating that EB is in Harbourfront, please post it here. Thanks. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 22:03, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

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