Toronto The Shoppes on Scarlett & Lambton Towns | 12.98m | 3s | Dunpar Homes | Turner Fleischer

Toronto1834 said:
It has just always ended at Keele, since long before the 2000s upgrade. It was intended to be extended to meet the Jane LRT as part of Transit City. Jane LRT is still in the City's long term transit plan, but LRTs are now being built to standard gauge so unless the Jane LRT is built to TTC specifications the two lines wouldn't be able to run on the same tracks.
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Never say never.

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From link.
 
innsertnamehere said:
They must have some sort of application underway already to convert the employment lands - the city would have known this was coming. A developer cannot just rezone employment lands, they have to apply for a conversion request through a special process that takes years and years to complete.

It is extremely difficult to convert employment lands. It can only be done through what is called a "municipal comprehensive review" (MCR), which is a City's statutory requirement to review it's official plan at least every 5 years. When this process begins - entirely at the city's initiative, a land owner can submit a request for the city to review the land use designation on their lands. Then begins a long study and appeals process. The city is considered to have sole discretion on which lands to release from employment lands and which lands to retain.

If this land is allowed to construct residential - it means the city agrees that it should be such.

It isn't a standard OPA to change the land use designation and start building.

To give an example of the timelines involved, the City began its current MCR in 2013, and lands are only beginning to be released for mixed use development now.
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Appreciate that breakdown on how process works. But that leads me to the question of how the former OMB (now LPAT) can get involved in these matters if releasing employments lands are at the city's discretion?
 
I guess the stacked/back to back townhouses are here to stay. We're seeing a shift now where regular townhomes are going to be executive townhomes and the stacked townhomes are now just regular townhomes. Towns will be $1M homes easy. I'm interested to see the pricing here.
 
The townhouses look pretty darn schlocky, but I jogged past the commercial component the other day – it's substantively done, I think –and I was genuinely surprised at how good it looks.
 
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Proposal to develop the property with 98 back-to-back townhouse units and the renovation of the existing two-storey employment building. The townhouse units will be located within 5 blocks along private condominium roads.
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I think these look great. I know of one unit here that’s been rented out as a photo studio for 8 months with a possible extension.
 
They've somehow managed to make this building look like a heritage train station. I wish we'd see a ton more commercial buildings in this style with this level of quality.
 
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