Toronto St Clair Place | 150m | 44s | Wittington | Diamond Schmitt

^ however it is fairly typical for other councillors to follow the lead of the local councillor and with development applications many councillors 'trade' votes and make deals to protect their turf in their ward - which has very little to do with the merits of an individual application.
 
This is a great addition to the area. And good to see the architecture is not what you would expect for Yonge and St. Clair.

St. Clair and Yonge over to Avenue Road (and definitely stopped there owing to the new 'Avenue') actually has a number of good and better modernist buildings.

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nice grouping of buildings !
 
OMB Prehearing started on Feb 13 related to an appeal against the OPA & Zb/l amendments by 1170898 Ontario Ltd (owner of 7 Heath Street East) and by 1495 Yonge Street Limited (owner of an adjacent property). The board set the 10-day hearing to begin July 13.
 
Novae Res Urbis

Yonge-St. Clair towers, OMB SETTLEMENT
July 31, 2009

A settlement at the Ontario Municipal Board with three neighbouring landowners means that a large-scale redevelopment at Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue can proceed; more than a year after the project was given the green light by city council. (See NRU-Toronto Edition, August 15, 2008 and February 20, 2009.)

Wittington Properties’ proposed development will envisions three-residential towers—15-, 16- and 37-storeys tall—developed on the site of an existing Toronto Parking Authority-run parking lot at 1482, 1491 and 1501 Yonge Street, 25, 27 and 29 Heath Street and 30 Alvin Avenue. The site is half a block north of St. Clair Avenue East, running east from Yonge Street. Wittington plans to build 15 townhouses along Alvin Avenue and Heath Street, while retail space will front Yonge Street. The towers will
provide approximately 470-residential units.

However, the proposed development stalled when 1495 Yonge Street Limited, 1170898 Ontario Ltd. and Goldhart Investments Group Inc., all of whom own property adjacent to the development site, appealed the approved amendments to the OMB.

Mary Flynn-Guglietti (Goodmans) represented 1170898 Ontario Ltd. before the OMB. The company owns a three-storey, 30-unit residential apartment building at 7 Heath Street and plans to develop condominiums on the site in the near future. Earlier this year 1170898 Ontario Ltd. submitted a rezoning application to the city to allow redevelopment of the site with a 13-storey residential building, which would include 30-rental apartments to replace those in the existing building, and an additional 67- condominium units.

Flynn-Guglietti explained that her client was “concerned that the Wittington building as approved by council was just way too close to our existing building. Allowed balconies, terraces, etc., would have been extremely close to our existing tenants’ windows and would seriously impact any future development of our client’s site.†Flynn-Guglietti said that the result would have been “an inappropriate interface between the two buildings,†but that the settlement has addressed the company’s concerns.

Other issues before the board include a right-of-way agreement registered on title of one portion of Wittington’s lands. The right-of-way provides 1495 Yonge Street Limited with access from Alving Avenue to its two-storey commercial building at 1495 Yonge Street.

In the company’s notice of appeals, submitted by 1495 Yonge Street Limited’s lawyer Thomas Barlow (Fasken Martineau), it argues that “the proposed development fails to acknowledge and/or show the existing right-of-way†and “as a result, 1495 Yonge
Street would become effectively land locked from the rear by the proposed development.†The company also raised concerns about the compatibility of the proposed
development with the surrounding area.

The subsequent settlement includes changes to the zoning by-law to ensure that enough room would be provided to allow large vehicles, such as garbage trucks, to access the rear of 1495 Yonge Street.

While specific issues were referenced by the companies appealing the development, the basis for the appeal was the overall concern that the project could impact the potential future development of the adjacent sites owned by the three appealing companies.

“The settlement was achieved through recognition that we’re not going to be impairing or precluding their future development based on their own architectural and planning
merit,†said lawyer Cynthia MacDougall (McCarthy Tétrault), one of Wittington’s representatives in the case.

Wittington initiated the project six years ago in 2003 when it began acquiring the properties immediately north of an office building Wittington owns. Also, a significant portion of the existing TPA parking spaces—165 of the 200 spaces—are leased from Wittington and other property owners.

Wittington bid for the opportunity to develop the parking authority’s site following a public call for proposals in 2006. The development will include development of about
200 TPA spaces as part of a larger-underground parking lot serving the residential units.

City council approved the required official plan and zoning by-law amendments in July 2008.

Wittington is working with Peter Clewes (architects Alliance) and Janet Rosenberg (JRA Landscape Architects) to design the project.
 
Rendering

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From DCN.....http://www.dailycommercialnews.com/...e5f44bb77e9c&projectid=9059803&region=ontario

CONDO APARTMENT BUILDINGS, TOWNHOUSES, RETAIL Proj: 9059803-17
Toronto, Metro Toronto Reg ON PREPARING PLANS
Yonge & Alvin Development, 25 & 27 Heath, 30 Alvin Av, 1480 & 1501 Yonge St, M4T
$130,000,000

Note: City council approvals for rezoning are in place. Preliminary plans are complete. Timing for when sales and marketing will begin has not been set. Schedules for working drawings, tender and construction will be determined based on sales. Further update late 2014.
BA Consulting Group Ltd is the Transportation Consultant for the project. McCarthy Tetrault LLP is the Legal Consultant for the project.
Project: proposed construction of a residential development. The project will include construction of a 37-storey residential tower, a 16-storey residential tower that steps down to a three storey commercial podium, and a 14-storey building with retail on the first and second floors. The project will also include nine street level three and a half storey townhouses in two blocks on the north and east side of the site and two levels of underground parking for 700 spaces. 200 of these spaces will be allocated to the Toronto Parking authority lot. There will also be a mid-block connection to the TTC St Clair Subway station. The Owner will also undertake construction of a park that will be owned by the City of Toronto as part of the project. It is expected that redevelopment of Yonge St, Heath St, Alvin and St Clair Aves will also proceed with the project.
Scope: 635,000 square feet; 37 storeys; 5 storeys below grade; 3 structures; 470 units; parking for 700 cars; 14 acres
Development: New
Category: Apartment bldgs; Retail, wholesale services; Misc engineering
 
and here I thought this one was long dead.. and holy parking batman. even with the public parking portion that is a lot.
 

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