The failures of Northdale

In 2004, the city's 2004 student accommodation study promised the Remaining Owner-Occupant Taxpayers of Northdale that the city would preserve the area, returning it to a balanced demographic from the 80% student area that it was.
Why? The city itself did not want a student ghetto such as that in Kingston
The city knew this would be a worst-case scenario.
To this end, the city recommended a variety of measures:
a) traffic study of Albert Street between Columbia and University - it was never undertaken
b) annual monitoring to see if anything was working to achieve this reversal of rental housing - the monitoring was done once in 6 years and presented to council in 2008.
Not annual, and not even remotely accurate in that they left out whole streets and failed to acknowledge the number of conversions of houses to rentals from owner-occupied, and didn't include in the report the hundreds of charges laid in the area in September of 2007.
c) Pro-active zero tolerance enforcement which was to calm the behaviour in the neighbourhood in order to retain the non-student (i.e. families, tech workers, etc.) population living there.
Instead, the Chronicle reported in 2007 that police and bylaw had actually implemented a policy of warning-only - even when called back to the same house in the same night.

Kind of makes you wonder whether anyone was actually trying to save the area, or whether there was another goal entirely.
Why spend all that money on an extensive study, only to ignore the very recommendations designed to help?

Building community...

Once again the drinking parties take over Northdale.
Sunday night on Larch.
Monday night - street unknown but noise unmistakable.
Tuesday night - 7:30 - Columbia Street - chanting, singing, yelling, cheering.
The chant unmistakable, signifying the start of the Drunk Semester.

What did CKCO say? Bylaw or police claimed it is the worst in the first week?

Uh-uh. This goes on until Oktoberfest ends.
Ask any of the few non-tenant residents of Northdale.
They'll tell you how it really is.

Cable boxes trashed and blue boxes dumped over again this week too.
Summer bliss has truly ended.