In that draft plan released in June, Sidewalk asked to have a hand in planning a swath of lakefront land 16 times bigger than the 12-acre site it had won the right to plan.A letter from a group of Indigenous Torontonians consulted by Sidewalk Labs for its proposed smart-city community in Toronto says the Google sister company created a “grossly misleading implication of endorsement” from their involvement, and did not heed their recommendations.
than the 12-acre site it had won the right to plan. It also asked governments to expand public transit in the area, pay the company performance bonuses, and rewrite provincial and municipal laws to accommodate its proposal.In an open letter to Waterfront’s board of directors on Friday, Ojibway elder Duke Redbird and Calvin Brook, principal at urban-design firm Brook McIlroy, say Sidewalk asked Brook McIlroy’s Indigenous Design Studio to host an Indigenous consultation workshop in November, 2018.
In the plan, Sidewalk refers to working with the Indigenous Design Studio, including “to bring together Indigenous artists and designers to discuss Indigenous design principles and how state-of-the-art technology might intersect with the richness of Indigenous design.” The letter said the consultation “was used to manufacture a politically correct endorsement.”
She also said the draft plan promised Sidewalk would work with Indigenous workforce agencies for training and hiring for jobs with the project, and that the final outcome would “reflect and acknowledge Indigenous presence on the waterfront” through design and education.In an interview, Mr. Redbird said he felt the consultation was a check-the-box exercise, and that the plan did not follow through on the recommendations.
The letter also called Sidewalk’s depiction of mass-timber buildings in the plan “misleading and unrealistic” from an architectural perspective, as. Sidewalk’s plan for a mass-timber plant, it added, “will undermine the emerging Ontario mass-timber industry which is providing employment to Indigenous peoples."
globebusiness Hahaha 12 acres with an indigenous school and housing? That’s pretty much the whole thing no?
globebusiness Why are indigenous groups involved?
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