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The City of Toronto has received Official Plan, Zoning By-Law Amendment, and Site Plan Approval applications from the Goldberg Group on behalf of the property owners of 150-160 Cactus Avenue, seeking to construct multiple townhouse and condominium buildings encompassing a total of 483 residential units. The project is to be developed by Plaza Partners and designed by the architects at IBI Group.
The site is located at the southwest corner of Cactus Avenue and Steeles Avenue West in the Newtonbrook neighbourhood of North York. On site, there are currently six blocks of two storey townhouse buildings. The site is centrally located and various services, neighbourhood amenities, schools, and some employment sites are accessible within a short walking distance.
The surrounding neighbourhood context on the south side of Steeles Avenue West consists of mainly low-rise residential uses including detached and semi-detached homes in the inner areas of the neighbourhood. To the west around Steeles' intersection with Bathurst, and to the east around its intersection with HIlda Avenue, there are pockets of high-rise apartment towers. Opposite on the north side of Steeles in the City of Vaughan, the area is predominated by mid and high-rise residential and low-rise commercial developments.
The site is located on a major arterial road that is served by a frequent TTC bus route that connects to the subway system at Finch and Pioneer Village stations, while YRT buses are also close by. A station on the Yonge North extension, set to open around 2030, will put the subway a shorter ride away.
The proposed redevelopment consists of four buildings, including a 15-storey building and a 12-storey building as well as two 4-storey townhouse blocks. The townhouse blocks would be made up of 60 rental replacement units for those currently on the site. There are 319 vehicular parking spaces proposed in an underground garage along with 388 bicycle spaces.
The 15 and 12 storey buildings have a unit mix of 255 one-bedrooms (60%), 126 two-bedrooms (30%), and 42 three-bedrooms (10%) for a total of 423 new dwelling units. The 60 townhouse rental replacement units consist of 32 two-bedrooms (53%), 24 three-bedrooms (40%), and 4 four-bedrooms (7%).
There is a total of 1,190m² of indoor and 1,325m² of outdoor amenity space for a total of 2,515m². A 1425m² public park is located in the southwest corner of the site as requested by City staff. Green roofs on the buildings would total 1,820m² in area. The total proposed gross floor area is 34,482m², the project having an FSI of 2.4.
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