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The “save our park” change also likely helps their case with CN as it removes the closest residential uses to their yard.

Just because they put it in the By-law for Forma doesn't mean it's really enforceable. Municipalities try crap all the time that doesn't hold up at court. Great Gulf just chose not to challenge it.

There is one at-grade next to Gravenhurst, then it's fully separated until north of Bracebridge. It's a good 15-20 kms without an at-grade intersection. 11/17 has many at-grade intersections, yes.

Yea. I assume the 400 could be phased as widening construction finishes. Vaughan to Newmarket will be done in a year or two so they could do that stretch then. It'll clearly be the same thing for the 401 south of London, which looks like it will be increased as it's widened to 6 lanes. The 400...

BDP bought Quadrangle here - they are under the same ownership now but are hardly identical firms. More like an architectural conglomerate. This building is very much a Quadrangle design which pre-dates the buyout.

yup. If you don't intend on enforcing something like the J1772 standard, why put it in your by-law. I also don't believe that the industry is fine with requiring full level-2 chargers in basically every parking space city wide, and I really struggle to believe that staff will interpret this...

My understanding is that MTO is making small upgrades to the stretches beforehand - i.e. upgraded guardrails, etc. I do know the 403 through those stretches was resurfaced last year - I imagine they looped in some minor upgrades with that before increasing the limit. It's good to see more...

This is a nice looking building, but if I were buying a unit in this or the (much uglier) older siblings immediately to the east, I would pick the buildings to the east 1000x over. The units there are some of the largest in a newish condo in the GTA and have plenty of amenities. This one's unit...

If that’s the case I’m interested to hear how - because the way the bylaw is worded certainly doesn’t look that way. It requires residential parking spaces to be “electric vehicle parking spaces” which it then defines as Level 2 J1772 spaces. By my read an NACS level 2 charger, or a rough in or...

Yes, 20 day appeal following notice. So May 8th. The final by-law still fully requires EV chargers from the looks of it (and the old standard too!), so I imagine the development industry will appeal it: https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=402668

For those interested, Hamilton passed it's minimum parking removal by-law on April 10th. Available here: https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=402668 It removes minimum parking provisions for most of the lower city and along James North on the mountian, and...

I will note that council annoyingly passed the by-law requiring all parking spaces for residential uses be EV charging spaces, including level-2 chargers, and that 50% of all commercial spaces be level-2 EV chargers. This means a commercial plaza with 100 parking spaces would have to provide 50...

The parking by-law has passed, FYI. The final by-law went to Council on April 10. If it is not appealed, they won't need variances. I believe it will be appealed though as IIRC the West End Home Builders Association had issues with the electric vehicle charging provisions, and a few other...

oof, not a fan of the western chunk of this. A tonne of dead street frontage there.

hmm. I'm not sure I believe that as these are 58-storey vertical slabs and have a massive "donut" in the middle to boot - but I'm not a wind expert..