Google sister firm Sidewalk Labs has released its long-awaited master plan for the controversial smart city district it wants to build on Toronto’s waterfront.
Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP), a document said to be more than 1,000 pages, was delivered Monday morning by the Manhattan-based urban innovation firm to Waterfront Toronto, a tri-government agency that has partnered with Sidewalk on the high tech proposal.Waterfront Toronto said it will make the plan available to the public in a week.
Sidewalk Labs wants to build a “beta site” on a 12-acre plot of land at Parliament St. and Queens Quay called Quayside. It would consist of a mixed-use development — primarily of residential units — and feature video cameras and sensors that would collect “urban data,” which is data ccessible in public places. The goal of Quayside is to make urban life more efficient, Sidewalk says.
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