Toronto 710 The West Mall | 73.05m | 22s | H&R | Kirkor Architects

[PMT]

Infill development at the West Mall and Rathburn.

70 DIXFIELD DR
Ward 03 - Etob. York District

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Proposed amendments to the Etobicoke Zoning Code and By-law 569-2013 to permit the development of a total of 88 rental units within three, 3-storey buildings containing 30 multiple attached units plus a 6-storey mid-rise apartment building containing 58 units. An existing 12-storey apartment building will be maintained.
Proposed Use Residential # of Storeys 6 # of Units 88
Applications:
Type Number Date Submitted Status
Rezoning 16 130337 WET 03 OZ Mar 21, 2016 Under Review

Site Plan:

Renderings:

 

[Tuscani01]

Housing for tiny people! Love the diversity in this city!

 

[PMT]

Preliminary Report: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-95483.pdf

 

[interchange42]

There were a bunch of resubmissions for this site in 2017, it would seem for its ZBA in August and December, and its SPA in January, March, October, and December. The changes aren't big enough for them to have changed the renderings; it's still this bizarrely short 6-storey building being proposed to be built near these 18-storey behemoths at the end of the West Mall, plus the row of 3-storey townhomes. I get the townhomes: they're lined up opposite the back yards of standard two-storey single detached suburban homes… but the new apartment building should be twice the size (and look 2 and a half times the size in the renderings: there's something very off about the scale). Also, the site is still significantly taken up by surface parking.

Anyway, they are working away on getting this development the approvals needed.

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[Rupert Pumpkin]

There looks to be only 1 underground parking level because of the high groundwater elevation.
You would think it makes sense to bathtub and propose further underground parking instead of all the surface parking. The surface parking could be replaced with green space or further development.

 

[PMT]

Recommended for approval: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-115316.pdf

 

[Marcanadian]

Approved by council:

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2018.EY31.1

 

[AlbertC]

70 Dixfield Drive — CGL Architects

www.cglarchitects.com

 

[PMT]

 

[innsertnamehere]

October 2022 satellite imagery shows the townhouse blocks under construction. Interestingly, a surface parking area has been built where the midrise building would go, which seems to suggest that it will be a later phase:

 

[Northern Light]

What did @innsertnamehere know; and when did know it? Inquiring minds want to know! LOL
The Midrise block has been severed as is now a Hirise Block, in a new submission. We're at 22s now.

I will park this here for the moment as it does originate from this thread; @interchange42 can decide if he wants to split it to a new thread.

New AIC Link:

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

From the Cover Letter:

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Site Plan:

Its KirKor..............sigh:

Elevators: 3 Units: 282 Elevator Ratio: 1.06 elevators per 100 units

Parking 212 (dedicated to this building) Parking Ratio 0.75

 

[interchange42]

What did @innsertnamehere know; and when did know it? Inquiring minds want to know! LOL
The Midrise block has been severed as is now a Hirise Block, in a new submission. We're at 22s now.

I will park this here for the moment as it does originate from this thread; @interchange42 can decide if he wants to split it to a new thread.

New AIC Link:

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

From the Cover Letter:

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Site Plan:

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Elevators: 3 Units: 282 Elevator Ratio: 1.06 elevators per 100 units

Parking 212 (dedicated to this building) Parking Ratio 0.75

The previous mid-rise infill plan was certainly underwhelming and a poor use of the site if expanding, this makes much more sense. Meanwhile, I don't see the need to separate off the newly-built townhomes into a separate thread.

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[Northern Light]

The proposed tower here is the subject of a Refusal Report heading to the next meeting of City Council.

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-242658.pdf

From the above:

The City is not keen on the height of the base building.

Slightly bigger problem, the height violates rules related to Pearson Airport Flight Paths.

LOL, this is a just a one storey hair cut required, but still.......... who does the plans here and doesn't notice the problem?

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Aside from podium height, a mixture of just over norm tower floor plates, w/lower setbacks and the all podium offend the skyview principle. (I'm sympathetic on this one)

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Now this..........come'on............. LOL

So the amenity areas will be unpleasant to use year round, LOL

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There's a smattering of other issues as well if you follow the link.

 

[Amare]

Wow, the proponent really didn't do their homework here at all.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

There's a smattering of other issues as well if you follow the link.

Issues with the chosen architect
May cause injury to UT members from snubbing their noses at this eyesore once it's built...