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Immediately to the north of Morguard's proposal at Bramalea City Centre, the owners of the retirement home, in a former Holiday Inn, are looking to demolish the seven-story building and replace it with three towers, with one of the three buildings containing replacement retirement and nursing units. In pre-consultation, and only massing drawings are available right now.



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The Zoning application just submitted (no public docs yet) proposes a significant change. The retirement building drops to 20 storeys, and the two general residential towers grow to 55 and 50 storeys.

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Submitting a Rezoning application for the development of an existing Retirement Residence at 30 Peel Centre Drive to allow for 2 residential towers of 55 and 50 storeys in height and connecting 5 storey podium with 1238 units and a 20 storey Seniors Building to accommodate 300 suites ranging in levels of care from Seniors Apartments, Independent Supportive Living, Assisted Living, Transitional Care and Memory Care services. The proposal includes indoor and outdoor amenity spaces, retail space at-grade facing Peel Centre Dr, streetscape enhancements an inner 'woonerf' and efficient internal loading and parking. The site area is 1.25 Ha (3.2 acres) and the proposed project FSI is 8.0, 1006 parking spaces are proposed and 870 bicycle spaces (long term and short term).
 
Great! So much gets proposed in Brampton but most hasn’t been built!
 
Yeah, there’s a flood of interesting developments these days, but so many of them just stall out. RioCan’s recent decision to go slow on its residential developments is especially disappointing because I was really looking forward to the Shoppers World redevelopment.
 
Well, let's hope that since the Peel Region split is cancelled, we can get the Queen St Water main/Sewer capacity upgraded which has been delaying many of these developments.
 
Are there any parks planned for the immediate area? Where are people supposed to walk their dogs--or their grandparents?
 
Irishmonk said:
Are there any parks planned for the immediate area? Where are people supposed to walk their dogs--or their grandparents?
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Though I agree that there should be a public space/park on the BCC lands if Morguard gets the go-ahead to develop the old Sears store, there are neighbourhood parks immediately across Queen Street, and there’s a walkway under it connecting to Hanover and Howden. Chinguacousy Park – the city’s signature park – is close by too.
 
Councillor Pat Fortini in his ward of Bramalea wrote a letter against this proposal. This would also indicate his stance against another dozen or so proposals in this area along Queen that are similar density..

www.bramptonguardian.com

‘Reaching new heights’: Brampton’s skyline set to change as 2 skyscrapers get approved — when built, they’ll be the city’s tallest

Regional Coun. Gurpartap Singh Toor is glad to see “developments of this scale finally come to fruition.” Regional Coun. Pat Fortini, who represents the area, said the project is too dense.
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“I understand our city is growing at a tremendous rate and more housing is needed, but I don’t like the idea of such a high-density project in this area,” he said in an email Friday. “This may negatively affect infrastructure in the area, including adding pressures on sewage and water systems, not to mention the increase in traffic congestion.” - Pat Fortini.

The sewer and water mains should be undergoing upgrades on Queen as they did near main st. His excuses about congestion are NIMBY BS when Queen BRT, Bramalea bus terminal and MTSA planning encourage such density next to the 7th largest mall in Canada.

How is Square one, Erin Mills or Yorkdale able to develop around their sites?

Fortini is the same guy who showed TMU the civic centre by himself with busiest library in the city and arts centre and gifted it all away to a Medschool with no replacement funding.

Councillor Toor at least contrasted his quotes with more positivity.

Curious to know which other council members might agree with Fortini.
 
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FullMetalEngineer said:
Councillor Pat Fortini in his ward of Bramalea wrote a letter against this proposal. This would also indicate his stance against another dozen or so proposals in this area along Queen that are similar density..

www.bramptonguardian.com

‘Reaching new heights’: Brampton’s skyline set to change as 2 skyscrapers get approved — when built, they’ll be the city’s tallest

Regional Coun. Gurpartap Singh Toor is glad to see “developments of this scale finally come to fruition.” Regional Coun. Pat Fortini, who represents the area, said the project is too dense.
www.bramptonguardian.com www.bramptonguardian.com

“I understand our city is growing at a tremendous rate and more housing is needed, but I don’t like the idea of such a high-density project in this area,” he said in an email Friday. “This may negatively affect infrastructure in the area, including adding pressures on sewage and water systems, not to mention the increase in traffic congestion.” - Pat Fortini.

The sewer and water mains should be undergoing upgrades on Queen as they did near main st. His excuses about congestion are NIMBY BS when Queen BRT, Bramalea bus terminal and MTSA planning encourage such density next to the 7th largest mall in Canada.

How is Square one, Erin Mills or Yorkdale able to develop around their sites?

Fortini is the same guy who showed TMU the civic centre by himself with busiest library in the city and arts centre and gifted it all away to a Medschool with no replacement funding.

Councillor Toor at least contrasted his quotes with more positivity.

Curious to know which other council members might agree with Fortini.
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Pat Fortini is a NIMBY clown like every other councillor Brampton has had in the last 20 years. Unfortunately municipal politics are constantly neglected in the city, and the 4 boomers left in Peel Village, Downtown Brampton and Bramalea keep electing in their own NIMBY interests. There needs to be a way to engage the populace a lot better in the next election so that we don't have the same people make the same shitty decisions for the next decade.
 
athundo said:
Pat Fortini is a NIMBY clown like every other councillor Brampton has had in the last 20 years. Unfortunately municipal politics are constantly neglected in the city, and the 4 boomers left in Peel Village, Downtown Brampton and Bramalea keep electing in their own NIMBY interests. There needs to be a way to engage the populace a lot better in the next election so that we don't have the same people make the same shitty decisions for the next decade.
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To be fair, Brampton staff is usually quick to recommend approvals of high-density projects once specific concerns are addressed, and council typically follows through in approving them. It's just a matter of getting the development from approval to construction, and that is not on the city (especially as the Gang of Six from the 2014-2018 era are mostly gone). Councillor Fortini, who started off with promise, has been really disappointing, though.
 
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