Changes as described in the Cover Letter:
Observations: (by me) :
Parking decline is good.
Podium has been modified in several ways, it's now being described as 5 storey instead of six, which I get, though the transition to the tower could read as set-back podium........
Be that as it may, the street wall is down one floor.
The aesthetic has been changed..........nothing really lost from the last iteration.......but not much gained either.
Brick now shows up on the podium, but its value is much diminished by not extending it down to grade, where we once again have the all-glass retail wall. Pfft!
The tower design is at least simplified somewhat; but the podium, as noted above is just such an odd jumble; and it manages that without extending any kind of granularity to grade.
We're getting an entirely useless POPs for no obvious reason I can discern except to check a box off.
The POPs is one storefront wide basically. I know......maybe we could put ummm, a store there!
How about we instead buy 1 or 2 houses next to the parkland just to the east of the Ring Road and add them to the park there? The trail weaves between homes in a way that isn't very satisfying, and must seem a bit intrusive to the adjacent owners:
The light colour is Parks-owned trail.