artyboy123
Senior Member
A car condo is being proposed! Located at 20 Towns Rd, Toronto at Kipling and Horner Ave at the intersection of the Gardiner and Hwy 427. It will have 234 private car units.
I would not even want to know what the monthly maintenance fee would be... hopefully the car condo are sold to car enthusiasts so definitely is not cheap.WOW a car condo in Toronto, every car enthusiasts dream , I wonder how much per unit, i would consider buying one , cheaper then trying to buy a house with double car garage in GTA
I dont doubt there would be a market for this, but at the same time this is the exact opposite stuff of what we should be encouraging in this city. We dont need areas for people to be storing 3-4 different car models that they own just because they dont have space for it.^not a waste of space, there would be a real market for this, if you want a parking spot downtown its like +$80K and shared with everyone, you can't work on your own car without condo board flipping out, and you can't store your other car stuff, tools, Jack stands, tires etc..., this city sucks for car enthusiasts, we need a break
What does this have to do with what "the city" should or shouldn't be doing? This is in a grimy old industrial area where some entrepreneur wants to fix up a grimy old existing industrial building for another purpose. It's not The City's place to tell an entrepreneur that they can't retrofit an industrial building to store fancy cars. I might not put the same value into cars as some, but to each their own… (although there'll likely be higher policing bills for the area afterwards; this'll indirectly foster more street-racing…)I dont doubt there would be a market for this, but at the same time this is the exact opposite stuff of what we should be encouraging in this city. We dont need areas for people to be storing 3-4 different car models that they own just because they dont have space for it.
Sorry to say but if there are people around who want to store 3-4 cars and cant do it, or work on their souped up cars thats something that should be at the very bottom of the list of issues the city should be rectifying. Especially when we have a lack of builds for various other industrial use buildings.
What does this have to do with what "the city" should or shouldn't be doing? This is in a grimy old industrial area where some entrepreneur wants to fix up a grimy old existing industrial building for another purpose. It's not The City's place to tell an entrepreneur that they can't retrofit an industrial building to store fancy cars. I might not put the same value into cars as some, but to each their own… (although there'll likely be higher policing bills for the area afterwards; this'll indirectly foster more street-racing…)
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Northern Light pretty much sums up exactly what my thoughts are when it comes to this.What does this have to do with what "the city" should or shouldn't be doing? This is in a grimy old industrial area where some entrepreneur wants to fix up a grimy old existing industrial building for another purpose. It's not The City's place to tell an entrepreneur that they can't retrofit an industrial building to store fancy cars. I might not put the same value into cars as some, but to each their own… (although there'll likely be higher policing bills for the area afterwards; this'll indirectly foster more street-racing…)
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If we allow self storage buildings in industrial areas, which we do, then what place do we have telling people which objects—that they legally own—they can store or not. If the building is properly equipped to handle cars, then it should be allowed to be built. My politics are generally to the left, but they stop before I impose my choices on others. If you don't want buildings built to store certain cars, then push to make those vehicles illegal to own, or too expensive to own through higher taxation on them (which would better reflect their true cost to society, and that would be my choice of a way to go), but failing that, who are you to deny someone else a place to safely store their expensive, legally owned objects?Northern Light pretty much sums up exactly what my thoughts are when it comes to this.
At the end of the day, if i'm not mistaken, wouldnt the city have a say in rubber stamping the conversion of the use of this building?
If we allow self storage buildings in industrial areas, which we do, then what place do we have telling people which objects—that they legally own—they can store or not. If the building is properly equipped to handle cars, then it should be allowed to be built. My politics are generally to the left, but they stop before I impose my choices on others. If you don't want buildings built to store certain cars, then push to make those vehicles illegal to own, or too expensive to own through higher taxation on them (which would better reflect their true cost to society, and that would be my choice of a way to go), but failing that, who are you to deny someone else a place to safely store their expensive, legally owned objects?
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...of course, they are just external stairwells!Those weird angular structures on the side is what intrigues me. It almost appears to be an elaborate mechanical gateway to some mobile suit Gundam unit...I'm pretty sure it's something more prosaic though.