Toronto 64 Prince Arthur | 46.1m | 13s | Forgestone | RAW Design

[Marcanadian]

Another prehearing conference has been scheduled for December 17:

https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onlpat/doc/2018/2018canlii70320/2018canlii70320.html

 

[Automation Gallery]

judging from whats going on with the city and the LPAT or OMB or whatever you want to call it,
... they'll most likely settle for a 22 storey box

 

[LMVDR]

More likely 12 storeys. This is a mid rise area.

 

[Automation Gallery]

More likely 12 storeys. This is a mid rise area.

Ugh? i thought there is a 20 storey bldg. just nearby

 

[LMVDR]

Ugh? i thought there is a 20 storey bldg. just nearby

There is, you are correct. And it was constructed in a different era. Today the mandate is to preserve the character of neighborhoods.

 

[bilked]

Good point - the Annex’s apartment blocks were built in another era, therefore we should ignore their context within the neighbourhood.

By the way, any idea when the Victorians were built?

 

[interchange42]

Well, now that the regressive conservatives are in power, those Victorians were built in this era.

42

 

[bilked]

Well, now that the regressive conservatives are in power, those Victorians were built in this era.

42

Sounds complicated. I’ll have to ask my phrenologist about that.

 

[Koops65]

Here are a few screen shots showing the area and its high-rise/low-rise nature:

 

[ProjectEnd]

Yikes...what's with Grenfell on the left there?

 

[Lenser]

Is that the tower stricken by fungus?

 

[LMVDR]

Here are a few screen shots showing the area and its high-rise/low-rise nature:

This clumsy Sim City perspective proves my point, not the developers. This area, west of Avenue Road, north of Bloor Street, is LOW or MID RISE.

 

[ProjectEnd]

The point that many of us have exhaustively tried to impress upon you isn't so much that this is what the context is, it's that is that what it should be?

But sure, caps lock away there keyboard commando...

 

[LMVDR]

The point that many of us have exhaustively tried to impress upon you isn't so much that this is what the context is, it's that is that what it should be?

But sure, caps lock away there keyboard commando...

It SHOULD remain as it stands hence the enormous desirability of the Annex neighbourhood across a wide demographic of residents that spans incomes, ages, and ethnicities. Why do you think the West Village in Manhattan is so desirable? Because it’s a low density enclave in a forest of skyscrapers.

That’s what drives neighbourhoods.

 

[ProjectEnd]

So it should stay in absolute stasis, available only to an ever-smaller pool of residents who can afford prices there? The West Village is one of the most expensive neighbhourhoods in the most expensive city in North America; is that really something to emulate?

The Annex has evolved to include apartments and other multi-residential building forms in the past, why not now?