Laneway and Garden Houses (various)

[christiesplits]

Two laneway houses on Ben Kerr Lane, by Donlands and Danforth.

 

[rdaner]

Love this on Wales Ave! 14 June.

 

[rdaner]

Taken 15 June. Just off Ossington/Foxley.

 

[rdaner]

Taken 25 June. Beside Ronald McDonald House.

 

[porto]

Just gotta say, this is one of my favourite threads. Big thanks to @rdaner and everyone else who contributes here. The development of our laneways and yards stitch together the urban fabric of our city in a way that no highrise could. Looking forward to decades more laneway development and hopefully some commercialization too.

 

[rdaner]

Laneway west of St. George south of Dupont.

 

[evandyk]

Interesting new funding model for a laneway house.

https://torontolife.com/real-estate/laneway-suite-danforth-gerrard-loophole/

The future owners of the suite (a young family looking to stay in the east end) would then pay $50,000 for shares, helping to fund the actual build, which began in 2023 and was completed this past April.

Today, the owners are happy in their new home. Their housing costs—about $4,400 a month—cover third-party property management for the multiplex, maintenance and property taxes.

 

[ADRM]

Just lovely Gabriel Fain work, backing onto Bickford Park.

(Has to be said: everyone involved in imposing an angular plane requirement on laneway and garden suites should be genuinely ashamed of themselves; the peak of headless adherence to nonsensical regulations.)

 

[marcus_a_j]

(Has to be said: everyone involved in imposing an angular plane requirement on laneway and garden suites should be genuinely ashamed of themselves; the peak of headless adherence to nonsensical regulations.)

Can't speak to laneway suites, but the City removed the angular plane requirements for garden suites, amongst other changes, in July https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.PH23.1

 

[evandyk]

If anyone wants to see this beauty, DM me for location... I know I've seen @rdaner hanging out in the laneway before, but the mural wasn't there at the time.

 

[rdaner]

Beautiful!

 

[AlbertC]

Recently added rear unit space and laneway house on Lappin Ave, a bit east of Lansdowne

 

[evanb]

Recently added rear unit space and laneway house on Lappin Ave, a bit east of Lansdowne


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I lived near this one for a while, it lingered in a state of "almost complete" construction limbo for my entire 3 years in the neighbourhood. From what's visible on the laneway side, no one is living there, it's just being used as storage.

 

[rdaner]

South of Dupont. Interesting!