Toronto 357 King West | 148.13m | 42s | Great Gulf | BDP Quadrangle

TheSixLover said:
I understand all that, it just seems that there are so many buildings that will be around 149m, why is that number chosen so many time?
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There are many buildings that are 152 m or 157 m etc. It seems to be balanced to me.

For 300 m, I agree that there are far more that are at 298 or 299 m than those that are a little over 300 m.
 
Since nobody answered ushahid's question...

This building has 3m tall floors, so 157m would have netted you 3 additional floors over the present 148m height.

At an average residential tower floorplate of 675sqm, that would be an additional 2,025sqm, totaling 27,116.5sqm for the building. With a site area of 782sqm, this would give an FSI of 34.67. Compared to the present FSI of 32.09.

FSI is a good mechanism for City Planners to figure out how to feel about a development application, especially when comparing two neighbouring sites with differing lot sizes, but beyond this simply bureaucratic "efficiency", I wonder what value we gain as a city in using FSI as a metric for determining the right mix and density of housing and commercial activity. Would three extra floors make this development right in the thick of the downtown core "bad planning" instead of "good planning"? In an area like the downtown core, shouldn't that be determined by the market and the development proponent?
 
The FSI in this hood is around 13x to around 24-25x, with 18-20x being the median. There are obvious outliers to that range also, MG, and smaller things like that 8 storey retail-now rental build on John. Just for some context anyway....

Keep in mind my value date is 2016, so perhaps the median has climbed slightly since then.
 
Tue Sep 29, 2020

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