AlvinofDiaspar
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I don't think one quasi-row house would make a huge difference either way in any case.
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Toronto SQ2 at Alexandra Park | 50.9m | 14s | Tridel | Teeple Architects
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I don't think one quasi-row house would make a huge difference either way in any case.
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jje1000
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There are one or two more buildings scattered around the edges of the site.
Regardless of how much of an overall impact it might make- in the masterplan, you can see how the residual chunks of private property split up the townhouse rows into shorter, less monolithic rows. Same goes with the remaining portions of the current co-op housing.
Anything to create a finer urban grain and blend the edges of the site into the rest of the city is a great thing in my opinion.
Regardless of how much of an overall impact it might make- in the masterplan, you can see how the residual chunks of private property split up the townhouse rows into shorter, less monolithic rows. Same goes with the remaining portions of the current co-op housing.
Anything to create a finer urban grain and blend the edges of the site into the rest of the city is a great thing in my opinion.
Sweet Hooligan
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Sweet Hooligan
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Funny that the holdout from back in the day is still a holdout today.
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Avenue
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I never understood why TCHC builds townhouses. Land in centre is scarce and low rise/density is basically luxury. Legacy habits I guess...
Because the city is not ready for high-rise only? Not everyone wants every square inch to be covered by 40-storey towers. They're still achieving quite a bit higher densities than were there before.
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I was expecting this but come on. Who said 40 story towers? There are no integers between 3 and 40?
Not everyone wants all low-rise gone. Off of the main drags, it's not City policy to throw tall towers up into the air. If you want that, start showing up at public consultations and argue for it.
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My point is everyone in the city complains about how public housing is deficient and how wait lists are miles long, and that the city fails lower income families. Yet only marginally increasing the TCHC stock when there's an opportunity contradicts this. I don't see any point in building townhouses instead of building 7-8-storey mid-rises and housing three times as many people. (Again... not 40 storeys)
SFH density for public housing may have been cutting it in the 40s and 50s but they won't now.
SFH density for public housing may have been cutting it in the 40s and 50s but they won't now.
maestro
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Opportunity is equal to money. How do you proposed TCHC afford to build these mid rises given their current $2 billion deficit predicament? Have Tridel build some megatalls here?
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_h...-tch-could-board-up-a-unit-a-day-in-2018.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_h...-tch-could-board-up-a-unit-a-day-in-2018.html
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