Toronto 815 Eglinton Avenue East | 114.45m | 34s | RioCan | Diamond Schmitt

[WislaHD]

Also of note.............might be the largest Architecture File I've d/l from the City .....67Mb and change.

The landscape plans file is 90mb. Feel like investigating that one?

 

[Northern Light]

The landscape plans file is 90mb. Feel like investigating that one?

Clearly someone's job to make sure my bandwidth is fully utilized! LOL

But I'm here to please!

Landscape Plan by Claude Cormier

Tree Species list is interesting......................

Some misclassification of cultivars as native........but the choices in that regard are fine, none are invasive.

Very ambitious list though...............

Trees that require fairly specific conditions and/or have a poor record in urbanized settings:

Red Maple
Red Pine
Eastern Hemlock

Bitternut Hickory! Interesting choice, I think it might do ok.....not that easy to get a caliper-size one though!

For the most part, there appears to be good investment in soil volumes, with those trees that are not in open soil mostly or entirely benefiting from Silva Cells.

Paving material of interior pedestrian routes:

 

[innsertnamehere]

I'm surprised the city accepted a 67mb file. Typically they require them to be broken down into multiple 25mb files from what I remember for submissions.

Tough loss for BDPQ. Claude Cormier is always a welcome addition though, and Diamond Schmitt will do something great here I am sure.

 

[AlexBozikovic]

An excellent site plan. For one thing, it creates quality pedestrian space away from the noise and pollution of the avenue.

 

[mjgrhm]

Do we know when construction will begin?

 

[AlbertC]

Commentary from Geoff Kettel in the Leaside Life:

When is community space not really 
community space? - Leaside Life

It’s almost two years since RioCan, the City and the Leaside Residents Assn (LPOA at the time) reached a mediated settlement for the community benefits related to approval of RioCan’s proposed development at 815-845 Eglinton ...more

leasidelife.com

 

[AlbertC]

The "Designer Row Liquidation Centre" at the southeast corner of Laird & Eg is having a closing out sale:

 

[ben.thebean1]

RioCan has really been pumping out so many well-designed developments, I really hope these all end up as amazing as they look

 

[artyboy123]

New renderings are updated in the database. The overall unit changed from 1453 units to 1508 units. The total parking count was reduced from 920 parking to 864 parking.

Renderings are taken from the architectural plan via Site Plan Approval:

 

[Paclo]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Dec/Jan resubmission here with the following changes:

• Total number of residential units increased from 1508 to 1616
• Total vehicular parking increased from 864 to 911
• Total bicycle parking increased from 1618 to 1950
• Unit Mix & Residential GFA adjustments

Renderings:

 

[Undead]

Nice hacksaw.

 

[Northern Light]

I can't top @Paclo ' s digging above.

But did decide to take a look at the landscape plans for updates.

Still CCxA

Plant list has been refined. Removing Red Pine and Hemlock, understandable, as I noted up thread. However, the addtion of Black Locust is a hard 'No' for me. Its both non-native and invasive, and this site is relatively close to a large natural area.

Not sure off hand if there have been refinements to the interlock plans, but I'll post the material legend below:

UT's Brick Connoisseur @DavidCapizzano may have thoughts.

The different interlock patterns can be seen more clearly below:

Very extensive use of Silva Cells!

Interesting to see that the Landscape Drawings include the Laird Cycle Track......