Whitby 423-435 Brock Street North | 26.45m | 6s | Whitby Brock Estates | GAT Arch

[WislaHD]

Another Whitby flavoured apartment infill project

7-storey apartment building proposed for Whitby's Brock Street

Members of the public can comment on proposal at public meeting on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m.

www.durhamregion.com

https://whitby.civicweb.net/FileStorage/89DCC6BB905A4D4A9E6E31DEA22D06A2-PL%203-20%20Staff%20Report.pdf

• The applications seek to permit the development of a 7-storey residential apartment building, comprised of 119 residential units. The proposed building includes a total of 164 parking spaces predominantly within a 2- level underground parking garage, with limited surface parking spaces for visitors. A full movement vehicular access is proposed onto Brock Street at the southwest side of the subject land through a “porte cochère” (breezeway driveway), which leads to the ramp as well as the surface parking spaces at the rear of the site.

 

[ConstructionJen]

Going to OLT...https://www.insauga.com/property-developer-takes-town-of-whitby-to-ontario-land-tribunal/

 

[Paclo]

After a reduction to 6-storeys the appeal was still dismissed at the OLT in August of this year.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Just bringing forward some of the Tribunal's rationale with which I strongly disagree in rejecting this intensification of a site located on an arterial within walking distance of Brock and Dundas at the heart of Whitby's traditional "downtown":

[68] The Tribunal finds that the proposed application represents an unprecedented over intensification of residential uses within the Downtown Area. Accordingly, the DWSPU process is to assess and accommodate appropriate levels of intensification through the Downtown Whitby area. Until such a time as a new directive policy is determined, the Tribunal remains unconvinced that this level of intensification is warranted.


[69] The Tribunal finds the proposed development neither maintains nor enhances the character and stability of existing and well established residential communities surrounding the Subject Lands as required by the OP.

This whole stretch should be lined with 6 storey buildings. We're not talking about a highrise. Honestly, if we aren't going to house more people in locations like this, then where?