Toronto Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 1) | 231m | 70s | Menkes | a—A

mburrrrr said:
I guess this natural gas meter station is not temporary or in the interim they installed proper bollard protection. Not much room to navigate the sidewalk. They did taper the sidewalk so mobility devices can put a wheel on the road to pass. I’m guessing the designers weren’t on the same page with Enbridge for space allocation. Something like RBC on Harbour between York and Bay would have been nice. Could they elevate this, add some catwalks for service and add a wall?
This road might be back-of-house today but it will see a lot more pedestrian traffic when the Loblaws property is developed and more vehicle traffic when Harbour/Lake Shore/Downes rework is completed.

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RBC Waterpark Place. August 20, 2024
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This has now been picked up by The Fixer in The Star. See:

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DSC said:
This has now been picked up by The Fixer in The Star. See:

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Reworking that gas train won’t be easy and will probably have gas code restrictions. Violate gas code or building code or their cost codes? They chose city code. It will take time for a long shutdown or two. No hot water during the summer for x days. Maybe now is the time to decarbonize this site. How far is Enwave? 150m?
 
DSC said:
Why would you do that? The gas pipe clearly seems to have strayed well into the planned ROW.
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Other than closing some building openings or stairway exits I’m not sure what they can do at this stage. Maybe combing all the gas into one meter and include “gas heating” in their monthly fees. This might free up some piping space for the rework. I bet the commercial gym domestic hot water and high make air heating equipment pushed their gas load higher than originally designed. They must have used “the last building” space allocation for this building allocation in their early design.
Enbridge wants redundancy and serviceability, they have no reason to budge.

Nothing money can’t fix.
 
DSC said:
Why would you do that? The gas pipe clearly seems to have strayed well into the planned ROW.
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I wouldn't...or I would if I had an large backhoe in my garage, but urban guerilla tactics are not encouraged on this site. And I digress... >.<

...the article attached noted the said road is underutilized, so making it one way with the rest of real estate going to sidewalk.with The City billing Menkes for it would seem one logical way to go here, IMO.
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
I wouldn't...or I would if I had an large backhoe in my garage, but urban guerilla tactics are not encouraged on this site. And I digress... >.<

...the article attached noted the said road is underutilized, so making it one way with the rest of real estate going to sidewalk.with The City billing Menkes for it would seem one logical way to go here, IMO.
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The article actually said that the street is 'unassumed' (not underutilised) and I assume the City will refuse to take it over until this is fixed.
 
At the end of the day, The City plans to hold Menkes over a barrel for this I gather...so I consider this a good thing despite sitting corrected here. <3
 
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