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jmi22 said:
What would you tweak specifically in this regard?
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Since you asked nicely, LOL:

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Changes in summary:

Reorganized building massing to eliminate large turn around and interior vehicle access w/useless courtyard.

Shifting public road access slightly to west and positioned easterly portion to the north.

Vehicle access points are all near the arterial road access points. As laid out, the interior public road space can be pedestrian-priority space with limited vehicle access, if needed for large vehicle turning etc. Or could be pedestrian exclusive space.

Created new pedestrian only spaces.

Eliminated useless parkland that is too small, created private pops/tots playground for on-site access for little kids.

Offsite parkland acquisition:

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Add space adjacent to school yard for St. Simon Catholic with usage agreement allowing school use during day/community use of combined yard/park after hours and in summer.

Maintained heights on Weston Road and the westerly portion of Walsh.

Reduced heights on the southern most buildings to increase sunlight penetration to both the public-realm and south-facing units in the northerly buildings.

Offset that, in part, by creating a new building where the park used to be.

Might also be room for one additional tower form in the southern block, but I haven't done the math.

Density would be similar, but possibly slightly lower; I would lower it further mind you by enlarging average unit size.

New forest at south end will mitigate road/highway noise and pollutants, small, slightly symbolic, but beneficial. Not intended for public interior uses, just dense tree cover.
 
G+C must be banished from Toronto and the GTA for good. Let them go out of business in a metropolis that (in my view) is slowly but surely starting to turn the corner on aesthetic standards for the past few years.
 
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Northern Light said:
Since you asked
Changes in summary:

Reorganized building massing to eliminate large turn around and interior vehicle access w/useless courtyard.

Shifting public road access slightly to west and positioned easterly portion to the north.

Vehicle access points are all near the arterial road access p

Add space adjacent to school yard for St. Simon Catholic with usage agreement allowing school use during day/community use of combined yard/park after hours and in summer.

Maintained heights on Weston Road and the westerly portion of Walsh.

Reduced heights on the southern most buildings to increase sunlight penetration to both the public-realm and south-facing units in the northerly buildings.

Offset that, in part, by creating a new building where the park used to be.

Might also be room for one additional tower form in the southern block, but I haven't done the math.

Density would be similar, but possibly slightly lower; I would lower it further mind you by enlarging average unit size.

New forest at south end will mitigate road/highway noise and pollutants, small, slightly symbolic, but beneficial. Not intended for public interior uses, just dense tree cover.
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Ah I see the vision now, I must say I had a hard time imagining this quite isolated corner of the city seeing any kind of development that wasn't highly suburban.

Do you think the possibility of a rebuild of the Weston/Walsh interchange to an at grade intersection is likely within the next two decades? Many people in the thread have mentioned it but IMO it seems like a hard sell with potential dev land constrained by Humber River floodplain and very very very stable 'Neighbourhoods'.

Assuming the Bolton GO line is moving forward as we are being lead to believe a station at Wilson Ave or just south of the 401 in the rear of the Knob Hill Plaza may change that, but until then idk.
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telefann said:
G+C must be banished from Toronto and GTA for good. Let them go out of business in a metropolis that (in my view) is slowly but surely starting to turning the corner on aesthetic standards for the past few years.
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May they forever rest in shame in Huang & Danczkay oblivion.
 
telefann said:
G+C must be banished from Toronto and the GTA for good. Let them go out of business in a metropolis that (in my view) is slowly but surely starting to turn the corner on aesthetic standards for the past few years.
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Even G+C has started to build half-way passible stuff, though far from universally.
 
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