LINK TO INTRO VIDEO This is a work-in-progress site about the community based initiative to improve planning in North Toronto which is situated Midtown between the original city of Toronto and North York. It includes the initial Midtown Plan outline, and over time will broaden out to include further segments and developments of the Midtown Plan and associated information. The video link provides a brief overview of the Midtown Plan. The Midtown Plan has come about due to the understanding that not only is Midtown's planning incomplete, out of date and under exercised, improvements in planning for this area are complicated by the division of responsibility between two separate and distant planning departments who often simply import their foreign measures, and similarly two Community Council decision-making bodies. Meanwhile the area is experiencing unprecedented development that not only exceeds the existing planning framework, it surpasses even the most recent informal notion of planning measures. Not only are the magnitudes of developments and the extent of the area of development changing, but the very metacentre or focus is drifting about without direction. To the idea of there being an existing context and a plannned context to assess growth and change - needs to be added a third lens namely: the trend context. Recognizing that this state of affairs has not been remedied after years of community commentary on this subject - it has been resolved that at a minimum, regardless of the magnitude and the extent that development may reach.... it still requires that a good and comprehensive urban outcome be achieved. Therefore the following approach has been established that focuses upon such primary concerns as the public realm, open space - and the emerging future prospects that hold forth both opportunities and challenges to Midtown. Rather than focusing on statutory instruments, the Midtown Plan takes an informative approach intended to brief development initiatives today while these proposals are in their infancy and likewise intended to inform the statutory process on an ongoing basis over time.