Toronto Oakwood Residences | 20.73m | 6s | Katalyst | Melillo Architects

[AlbertC]

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentAp...4300083&isCofASearch=false&isTlabSearch=false

601 OAKWOOD AVE
Ward 15 - North York District

Proposed 4 storey mixed use building with 30 residential apartment units and ground floor retail. 12 stacked parking spaces would be located at the rear of the building, with access from adjacent laneway. Rear landscape open space and roof-top amenity area. Concurrent rezoning application.

 

[neuhaus]

Looks like a large fire hall.
This proposal is really 6-storeys -- calling it 4-storeys is really pushing it. The "mezzanine" level between the ground floor and 2nd floor is its own separate residential level that's not open nor shared with the residential spaces below, and the amenity room is on the 6th floor that's accessed by stairs and an elevator (there is no mechanical penthouse, just exposed mechanical equipment on the roof).

The basement apartments with north-facing light wells that abut the alleyway probably won't fly with the City. Those deep light wells will become dark and nasty garbage and dirt pits.
Most of the apartment units are really tiny and poorly laid out (many 530 sq.ft. 2-bedroom units with bedrooms not properly designed for a bed).
The lack of any loading area or garbage bin staging and loading, especially when there is a commercial space in the building are also items the City would have issues with.
This building has a ton of unresolved issues and needs to go back to the drawing board.

 

[innsertnamehere]

If it sounds under 30 units you don't need loading. There is a minimum for retail too but I can't recall off the top of my head.

 

[yovee]

sol-arch strikes again! what a clusterf(&@

 

[LUVIT!]

I don't mind this. It's not a masterpiece and probably wasn't trying to be one. Toronto needs more residential buildings of this scale. This is the 'missing middle' that folks have been chatting about

 

[yovee]

I don't mind this. It's not a masterpiece and probably wasn't trying to be one. Toronto needs more residential buildings of this scale. This is the 'missing middle' that folks have been chatting about

The scale is fine, but why does it have to be so ugly?

 

[PMT]

Preliminary Report: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-112466.pdf

 

[Marcanadian]

This one has been redesigned, Melillo Architects Incorporated:

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentAp...icationsList.do?action=init&folderRsn=4300083

 

[Amare]

Thank goodness, buh-bye Sol-Arch!

 

[AlexBozikovic]

Exciting to see projects on this scale. But that front facade is much too complicated and will be terrible IRL.

 

[Marcanadian]

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[AlbertC]

The fine details are still a bit iffy and will depend on final materials and execution, but still a significant improvement over the last 2 iterations.

 

[Northern Light]

Request for Directions Report to next TEYCC:

Agenda Item History - 2020.TE15.4

Planning is opposing this one.

 

[AlbertC]

The scale is suitable as a missing middle type development IMO. It's also steps away from the future Oakwood Crosstown station where gradual intensification should be encouraged.

 

[carrythezero]

This site is exactly 50 metres from a new higher-order transit stop.

Number of times that "transit" is mentioned in the staff report: 4
Number of times that "transition" is mentioned in the staff report: 8