Developer: Stanford Homes
Architect: Arcadis
  
Address: 1 Deauville Ln, Toronto
Category: Residential (Affordable Rental, Unspecified), Public Space / Park
Status: Pre-ConstructionCompletion: TBD
Height: 558 ft / 170.10 mStoreys: 49 storeys
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Toronto 1 Deauville Lane | 170.1m | 49s | Stanford Homes | Arcadis

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This new to the AIC proposal is a very aggressive intensification in the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood,

The existing site is home a to a 7-storey, slab-style, and tower-in-the-park, purpose-built rental with surface parking at the rear and some vacant land (grass). The application seeks to demolish this building and replace it with 3 towers, of 44, 47 and 49 storeys.

Site as it, per Streetview:

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The App:


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Unit sizes in tower forms:

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Elevator Ratio: Oh.... @ProjectEnd will love this one........just 12 elevators to serve 1,833 units! ~1 elevator per 153 units.

Parking Ratio: (resident) 259 spaces gives a ratio of 0.14

@Paclo

@HousingNowTO will wish to make note of this application given its extreme ambition and relative proximity to transit.

On the Parkland:

No!

A stranded ~0.1ha or 1/4 acre park is of no particular value, particularly when just up the street from another park.

A better choice would to be to pool area parkland funds, and existing City reserves to buy out these nearby townhomes, which are adjacent to the existing area park:

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This is site is ~055ha or about 1.3 acres, roughly 5x the size of the proposed park, but far more important, it's immediately adjacent to parkland to its west, and the park/hydro corridor to the south, give it critical mass to support a much wider suite of program options.

Overall commentary:

The ask is aggressive. It's not so much the height, for which there is ample precedent among nearby applications, as it is the way in which the site is massed, and the enormous pile of investor boxes within its proposed walls, severed by far too few elevators.

Fix the parkland, the unit size, and the elevator ratio to start.; Add enough affordable housing to keep HousingNowTO happy, and then maybe we can talk. I note that 2 of the three towers have floor plates exceeding 800m2, while one is close to guideline at 770m.

Someone can go fetch the Transportation Plan for the area, as I'm trying to remember if these road network changes were previously contemplated.
 

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THEN: Let's put the lower income people in some nice, isolated pods (we won't even provide connections to the ample, adjacent natural areas) so they don't infect broader community. We'll spread them out and surround them with lawns and trees to improve their moral character!

NOW: Whatever. Cram it in. Gobble, gobble, gobble (that's a Thanksgiving reference).
 
I don't like walking here for the same reason nobody likes walking here: it's miserable. Once you get to Grenoble, there's some street life.

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This area is Toronto development at its most parasitic. Every building has proposals for massive carbunkles to be added but no sign of any sort of suburban reform.

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The walk from Don Mills to Deauville is 500 metres with no cross streets despite plenty of options for creating smaller blocks and a more urban street grid.

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As always in areas like this, you see people struggling against the inflexibility of the surroundings in all sorts of ways. On Grenoble there was a makeshift market in a cluster of vans selling fresh fruit and vegetables. But I'm guessing density without suburban reform is just piling on misery.
 

SPA has been submitted with some tweaks:
  • Heights increased from 165.2, 158.85 & 148.9m to 170.1, 164.05 & 155.1m (storey count remains at 49, 47 & 44)
  • Total residential units decreased from 1833 to 1830 (remains incl. 151 rental replacement)
  • Total vehicular parking decreased from 356 to 325
  • Total bicycle parking decreased from 2027 to 2023
  • Slight increase in total GFA
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