Toronto 60 Balliol at 33 Davisville | 132m | 41s | Osmington Gerofsky | Wallman Architects

[Northern Light]

This existing apartment building is the subject of lobbying by Osmington Gerofsky.

This is view of the building from Davisville:

This is the view from the Balliol side:

Of note here, this green space appears to be legally part of the 33 Davisville parcel.

From TOMaps:

The area in yellow shows as one contiguous parcel.

Site size (inclusive of existing building) ~ 5400m2/58000ft2

 

[Amare]

I thought the idea was to have more park space around the midtown area, not less? Guess there's not really anything the city can do in this case though as it seems to be privately held land.

Buh bye Balliol Parkette.

 

[AlexBozikovic]

Undesirable though this may be, it's planning policy in action. With very few development sites available, Apartment Neighbourhoods land is golden.

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[Northern Light]

Capreit has now registered to lobby on 33 Davisville and 60 Balliol

60 Balliol is the address of the open space parcel I've imaged above.

 

[YIMBY519]

In my experience, Housing Staff will only sign off on these tower infills if the outdoor amenity space is significantly enhanced for existing residents. Tough to say how a new tower can meet this benchmark when 2/3rds of it is going to be gone. I think this is natural progression for Apartment Neighbourhoods but they are sticklers on these proposals.

 

[Northern Light]

Front Page Article is up with the deets on this one:

39 Storeys Proposed as Infill on Balliol Street | UrbanToronto

In Toronto's Davisville Village, Osmington Gerofsky Development Corp has proposed a Wallman Architects-designed 39-storey residential building on the lands municipally known as 33 Davisville Avenue and 60 Balliol Street.

urbantoronto.ca

From the above:

 

[Northern Light]

The link to the City Application is here:

Development Applications

City Planning COA Application Information Center

app.toronto.ca

Material Board:

More to come when the AIC isn't down.......LOL

 

[TRONto]

Front Page Article is up with the deets on this one:

39 Storeys Proposed as Infill on Balliol Street | UrbanToronto

In Toronto's Davisville Village, Osmington Gerofsky Development Corp has proposed a Wallman Architects-designed 39-storey residential building on the lands municipally known as 33 Davisville Avenue and 60 Balliol Street.

urbantoronto.ca

From the above:

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167 parking spaces seems excessive since it's so close to transit

 

[Northern Light]

167 parking spaces seems excessive since it's so close to transit

The ratio is ~0.3 so it's not grossly excessive, but I agree, less here would be quite sensible.

 

[gregv]

I live nearby but not adjacent and have used Balliol Parkette hundreds of times.

When I read "trend of intensification of Tower-in-the-Park style lots in the area" I think of towers surrounded by an excessive amount of barely used greenspace.

I see this as Tower-replacing-the Park.

With 37+ storeys coming to 22 Balliol, 35 Balliol, 30 Merton, 50 Merton ++++ it would be nice if some greenspace could be preserved (and improved).

 

[TRONto]

That's interesting. I lived there a while back and the park was only used to pass through. Plenty new towers have come up since then so it makes sense that more of the green space is now being used

 

[ProjectEnd]

Holy shit this thing sucks. An 805sf, 3br? A 519sf, 2br? This is absurd:

 

[Northern Light]

I live nearby but not adjacent and have used Balliol Parkette hundreds of times.

When I read "trend of intensification of Tower-in-the-Park style lots in the area" I think of towers surrounded by an excessive amount of barely used greenspace.

I see this as Tower-replacing-the Park.

With 37+ storeys coming to 22 Balliol, 35 Balliol, 30 Merton, 50 Merton ++++ it would be nice if some greenspace could be preserved (and improved).

This is the issue w/'POPS' and the like; the City negotiates for 'public' space as part of a development, but allows it to be retained in private ownership, making it susceptible to future development.

This was built before the modern 'POPS' era, but is very much in that vein and is reminiscent of the proposal at Main and Danforth to build a tower on the 'public square' negotiated into the original apartment complex.

 

[Northern Light]

Holy shit this thing sucks. An 805sf, 3br? A 519sf, 2br? This is absurd:

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My living room is 242ft2, without counting any portion of the kitchen, dining room or entryway.

Add in the rest of those, free of any bedrooms or the bathroom and you'd have 462ft2.

I can't fathom how you fit 2 bedrooms and a bathroom in the remaining 57ft2, LOL