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The lobbyist registry tells us that CollecDev is now lobbying for the Planning and Development of the above assembly.
This site is currently a strip plaza from St. Clair Avenue East, a Scotia Bank at the north-west corner of St. Clair and O'Connor, a popular local pub named Jawny Bakers to the north thereof, along with a Shoppers Drug Mart, associated parking.
An aerial pic below reflects the approximate site. There is some confusion in the way TO Maps illustrates this site as it shows some legal addresses not mentioned (the St. Clair strip plaza) as being within the same legal lot as the named properties, but shows the parking north of Shopper's Drug Mart as a separate legal lot, yet gives it no address.
I've taken my best guess here on the lines involved. Note, that the property is not functionally as large at it appears as it includes ravine lands, including a tributary of Taylor-Massey Creek and a sewer easement as well.
What you see above is ~1.4ha
The pic below is my best guess at the practical developable area (very approximate):
Given that this site backs onto a ravine, I think there might be a temptation to take a consistent 15M behind the valley for a publicly accessible trail. Alternatively, I expect you will see an in-situ park proposed here, a modest square at one extreme of the site or the other.
With ~65,000ft2 to work with, there is easily room for two tower forms, or a very beefy midrise.
Streetview:
(St. Clair/O'Connor Intersection)
Parking next to the ravine on the St. Clair frontage:
Northern O'Connor frontage:
Additional comments:
A site with a lot of potential. O'Connor will be getting streetscaping improvements here next year.
The ravine an obvious value, especially if given a good cleaning and treated well.
Shadowing is interesting here. Without doing a study, I observe the following.
Sun coming from the direct west, would primarily shadow the road, a wide road, late in the day, with commercial on the opposing side.
Sun coming from the direct south would shadow the ravine to some degree, but of note, right now that ravine is largely privately owned, and not designated as park. Shadow beyond that might marginally impact some low-rise multi-residential, but would otherwise only affect a Home Depot Parking lot.
Only eastern/south-eastern sun might impact SFH homeowners, and then, the ravine still provides a material bufferzone, and those properties would still have full southern sun directly.
Not too often you get a parcel that might be that friendly. Of course, the Parkview Hill types may yet find reason to object!
This site is currently a strip plaza from St. Clair Avenue East, a Scotia Bank at the north-west corner of St. Clair and O'Connor, a popular local pub named Jawny Bakers to the north thereof, along with a Shoppers Drug Mart, associated parking.
An aerial pic below reflects the approximate site. There is some confusion in the way TO Maps illustrates this site as it shows some legal addresses not mentioned (the St. Clair strip plaza) as being within the same legal lot as the named properties, but shows the parking north of Shopper's Drug Mart as a separate legal lot, yet gives it no address.
I've taken my best guess here on the lines involved. Note, that the property is not functionally as large at it appears as it includes ravine lands, including a tributary of Taylor-Massey Creek and a sewer easement as well.
What you see above is ~1.4ha
The pic below is my best guess at the practical developable area (very approximate):
Given that this site backs onto a ravine, I think there might be a temptation to take a consistent 15M behind the valley for a publicly accessible trail. Alternatively, I expect you will see an in-situ park proposed here, a modest square at one extreme of the site or the other.
With ~65,000ft2 to work with, there is easily room for two tower forms, or a very beefy midrise.
Streetview:
(St. Clair/O'Connor Intersection)
Parking next to the ravine on the St. Clair frontage:
Northern O'Connor frontage:
Additional comments:
A site with a lot of potential. O'Connor will be getting streetscaping improvements here next year.
The ravine an obvious value, especially if given a good cleaning and treated well.
Shadowing is interesting here. Without doing a study, I observe the following.
Sun coming from the direct west, would primarily shadow the road, a wide road, late in the day, with commercial on the opposing side.
Sun coming from the direct south would shadow the ravine to some degree, but of note, right now that ravine is largely privately owned, and not designated as park. Shadow beyond that might marginally impact some low-rise multi-residential, but would otherwise only affect a Home Depot Parking lot.
Only eastern/south-eastern sun might impact SFH homeowners, and then, the ravine still provides a material bufferzone, and those properties would still have full southern sun directly.
Not too often you get a parcel that might be that friendly. Of course, the Parkview Hill types may yet find reason to object!