A builder says it is changing a proposal in Scarborough’s Birch Cliff area to include rental apartments for tenants its condominium project would displace.
Altree Development’s decision means people living in the Lenmore Court apartments at 1615-1641 Kingston Rd. can return to live there if the project is built.
Tenants of the 33 apartments at Lenmore Court
were previously promised space in another proposed Altree development at 2151 Kingston Rd. in the neighbouring Cliffside community.
At a March 1 community consultation, Louis Tinker of Bousfields, a consultant representing Altree, told around 200 Birch Cliff residents the replacement rental units would be on the new mid-rise building’s second floor.
Lenmore tenants would receive at least eight months’ rent as compensation, Tinker said.
Altree’s pledge that tenants can return after construction is a victory for the fledgling Birch Cliff Village Association, whose members made this one of
“five asks” in a campaign to limit local development.
During the online meeting, however, several residents said they still oppose the revised Altree plan for 1615-1641 Kingston because they feel the nine-storey, 264-unit project is too large and would encroach on a residential street by incorporating single homes at 50 and 52 Birchcliff Ave.
Tinker said the project is comparable with other mid-rise buildings approved for the area, including
The Manderley at 1478-1496 Kingston Rd.
He said Altree was unsuccessful in a bid to purchase the houses on Birchcliff.