Northern Light
Superstar
This is the Villages of Abbey Lane Plaza, just off Kingston Road, east of 401, and just west of Pt. Union/Sheppard.
The site is quite large, approaching 5ha in size.
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This is a very large, but somewhat challenging site.
Nominally, there's no reason you couldn't plunk down more than a tower a hectare, but then you run up against...........'issues'.
You have SFH on both the north and west sides of the plaza. If you could buy that out, this becomes more interesting.
Here's the further problem, to the north where the housing is not, is a school and a park.
There's also a school and school yard to the north-west.
That's a lot of potential shadowing conflict.
At first blush, I think I'd try to plunk down at tower at the south-east extreme of the site, and profile it to minimize shadows.
At that point, I might be tempted to leave the balance of the plaza as is, assuming its performing well. You could certainly convert it to townhomes, or maybe the low end of midrise w/o too much fuss; the lining the site w/towers would likely run into lots of opposition and challenges.
I don't think there's a terribly good argument for an on-site park here, if the investment were made to grow Tall Pines Park across the street, remove the remaining homes that face Rylander in favour of a gentle missing middle (4s); and remove the pocket SFH to the west; I think you could probably tower the site up w/o too much fuss, but that's not a nothing burger assembly I'm tacking on.
Interesting challenge this one.
The site is quite large, approaching 5ha in size.
Aerial View:
Streetview:
Comments:
This is a very large, but somewhat challenging site.
Nominally, there's no reason you couldn't plunk down more than a tower a hectare, but then you run up against...........'issues'.
You have SFH on both the north and west sides of the plaza. If you could buy that out, this becomes more interesting.
Here's the further problem, to the north where the housing is not, is a school and a park.
There's also a school and school yard to the north-west.
That's a lot of potential shadowing conflict.
At first blush, I think I'd try to plunk down at tower at the south-east extreme of the site, and profile it to minimize shadows.
At that point, I might be tempted to leave the balance of the plaza as is, assuming its performing well. You could certainly convert it to townhomes, or maybe the low end of midrise w/o too much fuss; the lining the site w/towers would likely run into lots of opposition and challenges.
I don't think there's a terribly good argument for an on-site park here, if the investment were made to grow Tall Pines Park across the street, remove the remaining homes that face Rylander in favour of a gentle missing middle (4s); and remove the pocket SFH to the west; I think you could probably tower the site up w/o too much fuss, but that's not a nothing burger assembly I'm tacking on.
Interesting challenge this one.
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