I support those monster homes if they are built to become rental apartments. They're the appropriate density for the location. Rather than having a single detached home only a few metres to a few hundred metres from a tall condo is a waste. The North York Secondary Plan supports monster homes to a certain degree: check out Map 8-8 on pages 63+. There are a bunch of locations where the City has specifically shown to have certain heights. In some areas, a big monster home or a tall set of rowhouses is what we want. We want to cluster dense housing around rapid transit. And in that space between tall condos and single detached homes, we need something in the middle. Maybe it's a monster home with 6 apartments, maybe it's a bunch of townhouses with 4 floors and 3 units per "house". Ultimately, the location for density is near transit.

Unfortunately, Toronto City Council has *really* botched things. We haven't seen any investment in transit when we're directing growth to all of our transit locations. This isn't a question of whether we should or shouldn't, either: The Growth Plan 2017 indicates that cities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (~GTHA) have to have a certain amount of density around different types of transit:

2.2.4.3 Major transit station areas on priority transit corridors or subway lines will be planned for a minimum density target of:

a) 200 residents and jobs combined per hectare for those that are served by subways;

b) 160 residents and jobs combined per hectare for those that are served by light rail transit or bus rapid transit; or

c) 150 residents and jobs combined per hectare for those that are served by the GO Transit rail network.

So we know that the city has to focus density in certain areas because it's required by the province and because it's generally considered to be a good idea. The problem here is that the City hasn't been funding transit to keep up with demand.

tl;dr: monster homes aren't the problem, failure to invest and expand transit is.