Toronto 7 Labatt | 126.18m | 38s | TAS | HOK

[smably]

Indeed. I wish the three rather ugly apartment towers at River and Gerrard can be redeveloped as well.

Aren't they?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Aren't they?

Thanks! This one has fallen off my radar - in any case, not terribly happy about that plan.

AoD

 

[Stupidandshallow]

There has been a resubmitted application. This project is now one tower with 38 floors at 120m.

The architects are Diamond Schmitt Architects.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

 

[Armour]

Looks like another brutal one from D&S. They're really going down hill.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Ya it's a pretty clunky looking mess.

 

[Lenser]

Gawd... to have that clunky thing hulking over the Don? No thanks.

 

[khris]

Yuck!! How awful! Back to the drawing board.

 

[Armour]

Gawd... to have that clunky thing hulking over the Don? No thanks.

Maybe the idea behind the design was to create a tangible example of the smell of the Don River?

 

[Lenser]

Oh, come on. The Don River has been cleaned up considerably in recent years. It's stagnant at the hard turn into the Keating Channel but even that problem will go away once the mouth has been naturalized. The Don certainly isn 't pristine by any standard but it fares pretty well stacked up against rivers running through many other large cities.

This project could use a total rethink. It looks like it was done by a bot that hasn't had its morning cuppa.

 

[PMT]

Final Report: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-96853.pdf

 

[stjames2queenwest]

So this they approve of?

 

[PMT]

So this they approve of?

Yes, and with it comes Section 37 benefits. From the report:

The community benefits recommended to be secured in the Section 37 Agreement are as follows:

1. $1,000,000 towards the development of the Dixon Hall Youth Centre to be located in Regent Park, to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Ward Councillor;

2. $625,000 towards local streetscape and/or parkland improvements to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Ward Councillor;

3. $325,000 towards the development of the Cabbagetown Regent Park Museum to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Ward Councillor;

4. $50,000 towards the redevelopment of the site of Canada's First Parliament Buildings, municipally known as 25 Berkeley Street and 265 and 271 Front Street East, to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Ward Councillor;

The following matters are also recommended to be secured in the Section 37 Agreement as a legal convenience to support development:

1. the Owner shall provide and maintain to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, a publicly accessible pedestrian clearway across private property on those portions of River Street and Labatt Avenue abutting the subject property that do not contain adequate sidewalk widths to accommodate pedestrian activity and street trees, with the specific location, configuration and design to be determined in the context of a site plan approval pursuant to Section 114 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as amended and, as applicable, Section 41 of the Planning Act, as amended, and secured in a Site Plan Agreement with the City.

 

[Momin]

Project Write-up: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/10/plans-revised-tas-development-77-river-street

 

[ponyboy]

This area near River street can be transformed into a great area if the Don River Valley Park can be realized in its entirety --

http://donrivervalleypark.ca/

In this southern urban district of the river, the removal of rail separating the river from bayview will open up the river to green space, and a landscaped sound barrier will separate the river from the DVP.