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[1Ć0]

Not sure if this has been posted on the forum yet, but Colonia Treuhand submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment application for 79-93 Ontario Street for a 16-storey tower, allowing for 98 purpose-built rental units and commercial uses at grade.

After successfully finalizing our land assembly at 79, 81 and 93 Ontario Street, Colonia Treuhand has submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment application for 79-93 Ontario Street. The development… | Colonia Treuhand

After successfully finalizing our land assembly at 79, 81 and 93 Ontario Street, Colonia Treuhand has submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment application for 79-93 Ontario Street. The development proposes a 16-storey tower, allowing for 98 purpose-built rental units, and commercial uses at grade...

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[Northern Light]

That's this site:

At the north-east corner of Richmond and Ontario:

Aerial view:

 

[innsertnamehere]

Expect a wave of end-of-year submissions to show up on the AIC over the next few days. I know of at least a few more which have yet to appear and I'm sure there are more..

 

[Northern Light]

This one wasn't quite finished submitting year-end.......Arch Drawings are marked January 5/26. @1Ć0 certainly keeping the news timely!

Not yet public-facing on the contemporary AIC, its available through the old AIC, here:

http://app.toronto.ca/AIC/index.do?folderRsn=5762171

Arch. Firm is Sweeny

@Paclo

From the above:

And finally, a larger one from the first post in this thread:

Site Plan:

Ground Floor Plan: (Richmond Street at bottom)

Typical Floor Plan:

Elevator Ratio: 2 elevators to 98 units or 1 elevator per 49 units.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Yet another example of why type G turnarounds need to die a painful death.

 

[tripwire]

Wow! Only 2 parking spaces! The bigger units are decent sizes though.

 

[jmi22]

Are they using scissor stairs to meet the dual staircase requirement? For some reason I thought that was generally not allowed by staff or requiring a special permission?

Otherwise great unit layouts and big add to the neighbourhood. Will be our Upper (lower) East Side soon enough

 

[innsertnamehere]

scissor stairs are fine, but only work for small floorplates as there are limits as to how far a unit can be from a staircase. Larger floorplates make units too far away which means you need two stairwells to get enough coverage.

At least that's my understanding as a non-architect.

 

[xy3]

the bronze and the subtleties of the curved stepbacks is very handsome!

 

[ProjectEnd]

Are they using scissor stairs to meet the dual staircase requirement? For some reason I thought that was generally not allowed by staff or requiring a special permission?

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Otherwise great unit layouts and big add to the neighbourhood. Will be our Upper (lower) East Side soon enough

Scissor stairs are fine as there are two paths of egress.

scissor stairs are fine, but only work for small floorplates as there are limits as to how far a unit can be from a staircase. Larger floorplates make units too far away which means you need two stairwells to get enough coverage.

At least that's my understanding as a non-architect.

This is correct.

 

[beepboop]

Are they using scissor stairs to meet the dual staircase requirement? For some reason I thought that was generally not allowed by staff or requiring a special permission?

A scissor "stair" is in fact two stairs, just sleeved around each other into one core.
Also a quick note - Staff do not make the call on this, it's the Ontario Building Code, unless you are referring to a plans examiner.

At a high level: a scissor stair counts as two means of egress because once you're in the stairwell, the two stairs within the stair core are separated fully such that there is a fire separation & smoke cannot pass between them.

6m is the limit for a dead-end corridor (6m down a hallway past the access to the nearest exit door) so that can create challenges if you are trying to put both of your exit stairs into one location (aka a scissor stair). On the other hand, when the floorplate gets really small, the challenge with a scissor stair is only that you keep the doors far enough apart or else you need to add a smoke door in the corridor which introduces other magnetic door latch complications (or impedes circulation.)

Hope this helps.