I am total against this project to build more residents area without any solid plan to address existing over-loaded facilities/service issue. My daughter is in Markville high school, she said in the school is over populated now, there are so many students and make very hard to pick the class she like. Look at the how heave the traffic is at Hwy7 and McCowan rd these days. Cannot imaging what will be look like after introducing huge amount new residents to this area. BIG NO!

A big no as we don't have the infrastructure/ services to support it. Everyone here has valid points plus there are not enough family doctors as well. Took me three years to find one.
There is no proper planning brought to the table to resolve our current issues, let alone supporting tens of thousands more.

What about "downtown" Markham? Still a barren landscape after 20 years. Goes to show smart urban development is seriously lacking in all levels of governance.

I against to build in Markville. Markham city planning is so disoriented, and development is scattered all over and none of them are utilized, you have
1) Markham Rd between 16th and Bur Oak condo project,
2) Downtown Markham still under develop for last 30 years,
3) Steele and Kennedy is another half finished.
4) Markham Stouffville Hospital has another beautiful transit hub and under development around it.
5) many others....

Markham should focus on those already has upgraded transit hub such as I mentioned above, and not to randomly build everywhere whenever developer ask for and leave it half finish, now city want to build rebuild Markville mall area and leave it half finish.

Focus on our goal, gather resource properly and execute the city plan.

Please have proper city planning.

As a nearby resident I support the development plan. We should intensify already-developed areas that are near public transit instead of developing agricultural land, and condos will be more affordable than nearby houses allowing younger people to stay in Markham. More residents around Markville will make for a more vibrant area and a better local economy. I disagree with the misleading yellow signs around town. For goodness sake, this is on Highway 7 and next to the GO Train - it makes sense to use existing transportation infrastructure and sites like this to create more-affordable housing during a housing crisis - that’s one lifelong Markhamite’s take on this…

I would support this development project if plans for a new community centre, school, and the needed road infrastructure was present. However, as a young adult in this city, I’m also interested in seeing some of these units dedicated as subsidized housing, or placing caps on the total profits developers can earn. I grew up in Markham and have seen house after house torn down and rebuilt into multi million dollar homes at the expense of the next generation. There should be affordable places to rent and buy for people of all walks of life, especially those who grew up in the city like myself that are being pushed out by exorbitant housing and rental markets. This development project has potential to create a multi income, transit-friendly and walkable neighbourhood, if appropriate action is taken by our city officials.

As a current resident of Markville, I strongly oppose to the new Markville Secondary Plan and I believe most residents will agree. The Markville community is already very crowded, and adding more resident complexes will only add to the over-population problems in the Markville community. This is my opinion on the Markville Secondary Plan.

By adding more residential homes but no schools, community centers, roads, hospitals, or parks, overpopulation can increasingly become a big problem over time. Community centers, schools, hospitals, and parks, will get increasingly crowded, and noisy, and wait times will be longer due to the increasing population.

First, the schools surrounding Markville are already quite crowded with students. Markville Secondary School has already had to add more portable classrooms to be able to fit the growing number of students each year. More and more schools around the Markville community have to add portable classrooms to be able to fit the increasing school population. As of now, Markville Secondary School is already overpopulated which prevents students from getting extra help after school, classrooms need to be shared among many different classes due to the lack of available classrooms. These all can affect the students learning over time and if the plan were to go into action, more and more students would need to be educated therefore leading to very crowded schools.

Secondly, public transportation, traffic, and overcrowded roads. During rush hours in the mornings and afternoons, the roads closest to the Markville community (Highway 7 and McCowan) are already very crowded. If there were to be more residents, more people would need transportation to get from A to B. GO Trains and buses are already very crowded during the day, by increasing the population in our area, you may be increasing wait times for public transportation. Therefore making wait times longer to get from A to B. Individuals who drive themselves will face very crowded roads and will have to be stuck in traffic longer thus increasing drive times to their destination.

Finally, increasing the population will lead to longer wait times at hospitals, community centers, shopping plazas, and malls. The wait times at hospitals are already quite long and adding more residents will not make them shorter but only make wait times longer. Store workers at malls and shopping plazas will have to serve more people making assistance time longer, and community centers will have more people trying to register for programs making program registration harder.

To sum up all of the above points, I strongly believe that adding more buildings and more residents but not adding schools, hospitals, roads, and community centers will eventually lead to increased wait times, overpopulation, and increasing problems with our Markville community. This is why I believe that the Markville Secondary Plan should not take action.

I strongly against this plan. The traffic is extremely busy in this area already.

Sorry to say it! I prefer my community peace and quiet , instead of noisy and crowded. I’m not a saint, to help people is government ‘s job! Don’t make it my responsibility! forgive my selfish.

I am strongly against this plan. McCowan traffic is already a big problem to residents. We hope that our government will provide solution and not adding more and more condo buildings. It will be disaster to Markham residents.

I’m strongly against this plan with deep concern about the sustainability of this poorly planned development project. The traffic will become worse in this area and the living standard will be lower for residents. Strongly request the city of Markham to reject this project

We have reached a over-developed city and everything has started falling apart from courtesy, traffic, services, people's trust and a sense of community. This non-sense need to stop before it explodes further. We need to do away from mindset where revenue is everything!!

I am strongly against this unsustainable Markville plan. The total area of this Markville plan is 110 hectares or 1.1 sq. km. This plan proposes 50,000 habitants/residents. So the population density is 45,455 habitants/sq. km. While the population density of Manhattan is 27,346 habitants per sq. km. So, the density of this Markvilke plan will be about 1.67 times that of Manhattan. A study shows that populatio densities of low-income countries, lower middle income countries, upper-middle countries and high income countries are 10000, 7200, 5300 and 2800 habitants per sq. km, respectively. So, the population density of this Markville plan is 4 times more than that of lower income countries. I do not see how this Markville project could be approved unless we want to turn this area to a traffic chaos as NYC or an overly crowded area which is even worse than any low income countries. There is no detailed plans showing about constructions of new hospital, (medical centers), roads, subways (public transit system) for these additional 50,000 habitants under this urban planning. Therefore, the sustainability of this Markville plan is totally questionable.

I am strongly against this plan as a Markham resident for 30+ years.

Traffic is already extremely congested along McCowan. When I have morning appointments, it can take 30 minutes to get from Stargell Crescent onto McCowan Road. Depending on my destination, I have to leave one hour earlier than I used to, to make the scheduled appointment time. When Go trains pass by the Centennial station, the McCowan-Bullock intersection is a mess and there is a resultant impact on other nearby intersections, such as McCowan-Stargell. The recent decision to restrict no right turn at McCowan-Stargell has very much exacerbated this situation.

I don't know enough to go into detail, but I believe the following will also become major problems. Schools are already over-crowded. I can't imagine how you will fit the additional school children into classrooms, and I'm pretty sure you won't be building enough additional schools to maintain or reduce the current classroom sizes. It will become very difficult to find a parking space in surrounding areas to the mall, as mall shoppers will park wherever they find a convenient spot. The additional people in the mall towers will mean that public transportation will become over-crowded, leading to longer waits at bus stops in wintry sub-zero temperatures. Many of those people will drive to work, adding to the already seriously congested traffic. As traffic backups up, pollution increases.

This proposed change will significantly impacting the living standards of local residents, and my family are already discussing relocating out of Markham in advance of this catastrophe.

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There are only limited mass public transportations to allow Markville development since the current roads are currently up to their maximum capacity and traffic jams during day time. It will be disaster for the area if Markham approve any future Markville condo developments.

The population in Markham today is 364,326, there are 54 elementary schools, which means 1 school/6747 population. Now we are adding 40k-50k population in this area, that means we need to reserve 40000/6747= 6 schools. May be another 1-2 high school. If you don't plan now, does the city expect kids in this region will take school bus every day?
We welcome a good plan with everything considered in advance. Not such a plan with lots of problems.

All for it but a few concerns,

The residents that are along bullock drive opposite of the project. For the duration of the project they will suffer, dust, debris, broken windows, tree damage, construction garbage, mall garbage, Fence damage, and health concerns. Who is responsible for these damages? who will fix them? where can the residents go to have their issues heard and something done about the.

We are concerned about the development of school and other facilities to catch up the growth of this community. Right now, the high school has already been so crowded. And school just added 6 easy installated time house.
City better have development plan on all related facilities to meet the grow, instead of just housing.

Strongly against this plan as a resident and previous student of this area. Traffic is already very congested in this area and by adding many more residential complexes, that only increases that problem. While the goal of providing affordable housing is good, that shouldn't reduce the current standards of living for residents.

In my opinion, building more and more houses isn't necessarily a sustainable solution: with the rate at which the population is increasing, do we just keep building more and more houses to house the increasing population? But we have limited space and limited resources, so this is an unsustainable solution to affordable housing. Also, building more residential complexes doesn't scale the living needs for the increased residential population, which will create a chain of problems elsewhere: overcrowded schools (Markville Secondary School is already beyond capacity, with larger and larger graduation classes every year and classrooms being shared amongst multiple teachers due to lack of space, students unable to stay after school for needed help from teachers, no extra time for students who need accommodations, etc), overcrowded roads (already a problem, will only exacerbate in issue), pollution, overcrowded public transportation (Go Train is already a problem, especially during rush hours the crowdedness inside the trains are crazy), decreased greenery space (which further fuels the pollution issue since no trees to mitigate AND reduced standards of living), and many other issues (like services, Service Canada and Service Ontario crowding, gas station crowding, parking overcrowding, groceries overcrowding), and with rising demand (due to rising population) means FURTHER RISING PRICES! Which doesn't help the affordable housing plan or affordable anything plan, as costs will only go up for everything (all needs, utilities, housing, groceries, everything) because of the increased demand from increased residential population in the area...which is counterproductive (see economics concepts). Yes, your plan's proposed increased supply of housing (and Markham's limited resources, financially and services wise) will not be able to match the speed of increased demand, so prices will only rise as supply unable to keep up (especially in the long term). NOT TO MENTION THE INCREASED NEEDS FOR POLICING AND SAFETY! (and especially for seniors and young families!!! Overcrowded healthcare!!!! which is not to mention already EXTREMELY long waitlists in the area AND SLOW...) Markham's crime rates have already significantly increased and that's right now, before this plan is even executed....I can't imagine how the police stations, fire stations, and hospital (and its emergency department) will fare too with the overcrowding. This shouldn't become another downtown Toronto....(and we are not built for that either as we are not very commuter or walking friendly and are unequipped to deal with the series of problems that entails, unlike downtown Toronto). Markham has been long time reputed as a clean, safe, high standard of living community (and I would know as I've travelled to many communities in the GTA and outside the GTA) -- putting this plan into place will disrupt all Markham is known for and drastically decrease the standards of living for current residents while not only NOT addressing problems this plan aims to address but be counterproductive and exacerbate those problems. I'm already visibly seeing the downsides that the new housing over at Pierre Elliott Trudeau area has been bringing and they are definitely not positive for the community.

Overall, I think your plan counteracts why you want to proceed with the plan in the first place. It is a very short term solution without thinking adequately for the long term prosperity of Markham as a city (like a quick fix that seems to in the short term "fix things" but that actually brings a whole plethora and chain of complicated long term problems upon deeper thought).

From your vision and guiding principles, as I explain above, this plan counteracts sustainability, not only does not ensure permeable streets and active transportation but goes in the complete opposite direction, does not support establishment of Markville as key development area by worsening standard of living, does not create affordable housing opportunities (only makes it worse by rising area prices for all housing AND needs). It also does not address the feedback you guys heard (from your what we heard slides). All that feedback mentions desire for "more entertainment and recreational spaces and facilities, more trails, better traffic calming, better connectivity and safe transportation options, emphasis on protection of natural environment and employment opportunities, and environmental sustainability."

I don't see how building more integrated residential complexes, which seems to be what your plan focuses on more than anything else, addresses ANY of that and actually only goes against all of that feedback. You don't need to build more houses to address this sort of feedback. Instead, it should be building more parks, green spaces, TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, SOLAR PANELS ON ROOFS AND SUCH RENEWABLE THINGS, etc etc (see how UofT has implemented a huge plan on sustainability with its solar panel roofs and sustainable buildings).

I am living near the area and strongly against the plan. The plan ignores several key issues including traffic. In addition, I learned of this plan just a couple of days ago. A lot people living in the nearby areas may not know this high-impact plan! Finding a better way to inform the community of the plan as well as more consultation are needed!