Toronto Neighbors Suffer Construction Chaos

0:00It's March 28th, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Toronto News Today, local news powered by AI. Residents in Toronto's North York neighborhood around Parkside Square are fed up with non-stop construction noise wrecking their daily lives. This massive rental project, near Shepherd Avenue East and Consumers Road, has two high-rise towers already done, one with 301 units, the other with 483, but two more are still going up from developed attribute communities. The area used to be mostly commercial, but is blowing up into a stack of vertical homes halfway through the build. Folks moved in knowing work was coming, yet the pounding starts at 7am, drags all day, and sometimes hits night hours with special permits. Families are hit hardest, one with a newborn can't catch a break on sleep, while work from home parents battle headaches and zero focus amid the dust, and racket the key's window sealed shut all summer. Other tenants' concussion recovery stretch six months from the endless drilling and

1:02hammering. City rules cap noise from 7am to 7pm, weekdays, 9am to 7pm, Saturdays, nothing on Sundays or holidays. Residents keep calling 311, the landlord board, even their counselor, but permits let work overrun and nothing shifts. Construction rolls on with no heart end date, may be wrapping by 2027, but for now, these folks are stuck riding out the chaos in their half-buildhood.