Toronto is redrawing its seemingly-ancient map of neighbourhoods to better reflect how more than a dozen monolithic regions across the city are actually divided in terms of population and use.
Freshly unveiled by the municipal government, these new boundaries present a Toronto with 158 different neighbourhoods — up from the current total of 140, which has been in place since the late 1990s.
It's not yet clear when the new boundaries will be formally recognized, but the city has released a map showing how large areas such as Rouge, Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson-Junction and Islington-City Centre West are being divvied up. The latter, for instance, will be split in half horizontally, creating two new neighbourhoods called Islington and Etobicoke City Centre. With more than 43,000 residents as of the last Canadian census, this makes sense.
The area currently known as Willowdale East will be split into three new neighbourhoods called Empress, Avondale and Dunforest-Hollywood, which certainly people will eventually call "Hollywood North (of Bloor.)"
Downtown, the neighbourhood currently known as Niagara will be split into West Queen West and Fort York-Liberty Village. Waterfront Communities The Island will become three new neighbourhoods called Wellington Place, Harbourfront CityPlace, and St. Lawrence-East Bayview-The Islands.
