Hamilton 90 Skinner Road | ?m | 3s | New Horizon | Graziani + Corazza

[Paclo]

90 Skinner Road, AKA "Waterdown Bay Block 646": a proposed 3 & 3-storey stacked townhouse development designed by Graziani + Corazza Architects for New Horizon Development Group on the southeast corner of Skinner Road and Burke Street in Hamilton's Waterdown community.

Rendering from NHDG:

Additional visuals from the Minor Variance application of December 2022:

 

[Branden Simon]

This is marked as SoL Stacked towns

SoL website

 

[BrenWilson]

My god that roundabout is massive for a local street.

 

[innsertnamehere]

It's on a 4-lane arterial. It's not a local street.

 

[BrenWilson]

Calling it an arterial is maybe a stretch, seems like a grossly oversized collector considering the size of the subdivision there.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Eventually it’s supposed to connect to Waterdown road and provide a bypass of downtown Waterdown, so it’ll serve more traffic than just that in the subdivision itself.

4 lanes is probably overkill for it though, but it’s really not a local street.

 

[BrenWilson]

Some very odd choices here considering it doesn't connect to the waterdown bypass without going back to Hwy5/Dundas.

Spoiler: Map

 

[innsertnamehere]

it makes more sense when you realize most traffic is not going from north of Waterdown to south of Waterdown - if a car is doing that, it generally takes Highway 6.

The bypass is to get cars coming from the new subdivisions on the east side of Waterdown to Waterdown Road. Right now they go through the Downtown, which will change with this connection. Similarly the north bypass is for vehicles going from highway 6 to Dundas St.

 

[BrenWilson]

Yes, which goes back to my earlier point that 4 lanes for such a collector (connecter) is over designed. It's probably an older design that predates the complete streets guide for the city but the city really needs to crack down on site plans and road designs that don't comply with their own guidelines.