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This is the north parking lot for the GO Station in question.

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Link here:

www.infrastructureontario.ca

Guildwood GO – Transit-Oriented Community

The development proposal for the Guildwood GO TOC envisions a mixed-use community, featuring housing, open space, community, and employment infrastructure on the Guildwood GO Station parking lot, along the Lakeshore East Line.
www.infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca


Docs submitted to the City today, November 17th.

Thanks to @HousingNowTO for the tip off.

And heads up to @Paclo in case I get busy and miss the docs.
 
Northern Light said:
This is the north parking lot for the GO Station in question.

Image:

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Link here:

www.infrastructureontario.ca

Guildwood GO – Transit-Oriented Community

The development proposal for the Guildwood GO TOC envisions a mixed-use community, featuring housing, open space, community, and employment infrastructure on the Guildwood GO Station parking lot, along the Lakeshore East Line.
www.infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca


Docs submitted to the City today, November 17th.

Thanks to @HousingNowTO for the tip off.

And heads up to @Paclo in case I get busy and miss the docs.
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Northern, what do you think would be appropriate scale for this site? Would 2x40 storey towers be pushing it?
 
christiesplits said:
Northern, what do you think would be appropriate scale for this site? Would 2x40 storey towers be pushing it?
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Height is a discussion that may be influenced by how many buildings you propose.

But there's room for a lot more than 2 there.

That parking lot is 2ha or 5 acres, not including the station building or the driveway.

Presumably a park will be an ask here, and you need some space for roads, but there's ample space for 5 buildings (or more) in that area.

Further on height, the adjacent proposal is zoned at 38s so I don't see anyone asking for less.

4121 Kingston | 125m | 38s | Trinity Group | Arcadis

Drone shots November 15
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Amare said:
Well if this is anything like what we've been seeing take place a Mimico GO over the past 15+ years, i'm sure this will quite literally go swimmingly well.
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I guess at least here they already upgraded the station so at least if the redevelopment is a mess the actual station infrastructure won't get caught up in the disaster like it has at Mimico.
 
Database file is now attached up top, and we have a front page story up with the details on this six-tower proposal. Design by Zeidler for Infrastructure Ontario.

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Once again, only the Planning Justification Report has been made public...........how irksome......

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The fictional colour along Kingston Rd. is nice.............the rest is sub-optimal.

The parks plan is poor, the province should acquire the adjacent site, and consolidate the two parks blocks into 1 usable, regular shape, rather than 2 lesser parks across the street from one another.

If you do stay on the existing site, I'd prefer to see the parks block re-thought, as a single large slab town with NE-SW axis, and a larger floor plate, with one or two set back tiers as the height climbs.

This would allow for the park to be enlarged slightly and regularized in shape.

There is also a need for mid-block connection to Kingston Road along the north-east extent of the Kingston Rd facing buildings.

The proposal for 506 residential parking spaces, plus 1 for 1 replacement of the existing GO Parking at 760 spaces, for a total 1,266 parking spots is not reasonable.

The site is also being organized partially to allow for a traction power substation for the EELRT which should never be built.
 
Northern Light said:
The parks plan is poor, the province should acquire the adjacent site, and consolidate the two parks blocks into 1 usable, regular shape, rather than 2 lesser parks across the street from one another.
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Thanks, NL, for your analysis.

On parks, I see parallels between this project and the proposals around Danforth GO just down the tracks, where the inclusion of parkland seems like a check-box exercise.
 
christiesplits said:
At 60s, would this be the largest tower in Scarborough outside of Scarborough City Centre?
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Pretty sure only one tower currently proposed in Scarborough centre is actually taller, only by a meter or so, the rest are still just a future vision

i dont get why they always split up the park space into little areas like that instead of one larger space. A big station plaza would be great. Admitadtly the neighbourhood has plenty of green space already, especially if that trail connection to Livingston goes in
 
Northern Light said:
The site is also being organized partially to allow for a traction power substation for the EELRT which should never be built.
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Agree with all of your other comments, but particularly this one. I have no doubt once the crosstown opens Toronto won't start another LRT project for a generation, if ever.

Densification of these suburban GO lots is great, particularly the ones with such short trips to Union. The heavy load of 1 beds seems dubious in this market however, and generally out of line with the demand one would expect in the area.
 
Northern Light said:
This is the north parking lot for the GO Station in question.

Image:

View attachment 696375

Link here:

www.infrastructureontario.ca

Guildwood GO – Transit-Oriented Community

The development proposal for the Guildwood GO TOC envisions a mixed-use community, featuring housing, open space, community, and employment infrastructure on the Guildwood GO Station parking lot, along the Lakeshore East Line.
www.infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca


Docs submitted to the City today, November 17th.

Thanks to @HousingNowTO for the tip off.

And heads up to @Paclo in case I get busy and miss the docs.
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Adding to the watch list
 
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