HousingNowTO
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"Increase in the number of affordable units from 196 to 254 by adjusting the building height"
260 Adelaide West | 196.8m | 61s | CentreCourt | Sweeny &Co
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Northern Light
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Excellent!
What's not to like?
A great one-two improvement taking this from a good proposal, to a great one.
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innsertnamehere
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great to hear.
Amare
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Wow this is truly shocking to see Toronto is actually forward thinking for once in a blue moon. 2 for 1 deal here, no underground parking under the park and increased affordable housing is fantastic.
HousingNowTO
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Slides from tonight's meeting with City Planning and the Developer... CITY PLANNER went first...
HousingNowTO
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Slides from CreateTO...
HousingNowTO
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Slides from the Architect...
condovo
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Is there going to be parking under the new park or is it going to be under the new tower? In other words, is the park going to be a park or a glorified roof for underground parking?
Northern Light
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Parking under the park has been nixed!
Star Fox
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These changes are great.
However, on a general note I wish we started viewing underground parking as a 1:1 replacement for street parking. If there were underground parking here and we could replace the nearby street parking with wider sidewalks, that'd be a worthwhile tradeoff in my view.
The justification for street parking seems to always be that businesses need it. That's great, but we've added hundreds if not thousands of Green P and other paid parking in the vicinity, yet the "businesses need the street parking to survive" narrative persists.
However, on a general note I wish we started viewing underground parking as a 1:1 replacement for street parking. If there were underground parking here and we could replace the nearby street parking with wider sidewalks, that'd be a worthwhile tradeoff in my view.
The justification for street parking seems to always be that businesses need it. That's great, but we've added hundreds if not thousands of Green P and other paid parking in the vicinity, yet the "businesses need the street parking to survive" narrative persists.
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HousingNowTO
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Like removing development parking-minimums... it will take a few years --- but we will slowly kill-off CHEAP street parking in Toronto.
We don't want 1:1 replacement, that only embeds lots of carbon into bathtubbing underground parking. You can't have Green-Standards at the City and Cheap/Easy parking.
The City policy clearly wants/needs fewer private cars in the core... and easy parking-access runs counter to that.
Northern Light
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My prescription is steadily forcing street parking off of a main streets, but adding pay and display to existing parking on side streets (permit holders don't pay twice).
At the same time, rates have to rise, permit parking remains as cheap as .60c per day which is absurd; while pay and display on-street ranges widely but is usually in the $2-3 per hour range, and as high as $4.
Even today, prices should be $4 in lower demand areas, and up to $7 per hour in peak-zones.
As supply drops, prices should rise.
For Permit holders, there should be only 2 classes of permit, instead of 3; and for the 1st car it should be at least $120 per month ($4 per day); while a second permit per family should rise to $210 per month.
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HousingNowTO
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Undead
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Do the units stay at 80% of current rents or indexed to future increases/decreases?
HousingNowTO
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They will follow whatever the City of Toronto's Affordable Housing rental policy is in Q3-2028 which is a bunch of elections from now at all 3-level of Government...