As she strolls around the ring-shaped Festival Terrace, Stephanie Martin ponders the not-too-distant future of the nascent Downsview West neighbourhood immediately to the north. 

“On the one hand, I like the idea of adding more parks and paths,” the forty-something local resident says of the Canada Lands Company’s recent submission of the 30-hectare Downsview West District Plan to the City of Toronto. “On the other hand, we’re going to have years and years of construction, and the area is going to get a lot busier and more crowded.”