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Lamb Development Corp has submitted an application to the City of Toronto for the rezoning of a 943m² site located at the southwest corner of Parliament Street and Richmond Street East. The property is comprised of three separate parcels addressed to 130 and 134 Parliament Street, and 529 Richmond Street East in the King-Parliament area of Downtown Toronto. The proposal for the site is the development of a sleek and slender mixed-use tower, with retail space on the ground floor, and residential condo units above.
The site is a highly visible corner site that is currently developed with an automobile service establishment with associated surface parking, a low-rise commercial building, and a row house containing one residential unit.
The application seeks the redevelopment of the site with a minimalist 44-storey building designed by architects—Alliance comprised of 327 residential units and 188 m² of grade-related commercial space off of Richmond Street East. The proposal is massed as a 7-storey base building along the Parliament Street and Richmond Street frontages, with the tower above stepped back from the streets. The building would have a total gross floor area of approximately 19,696m², resulting in an overall site density of approximately 20.9 FSI.
The base building would incorporate decorative metal grid panels and coloured glass, in keeping with the contemporary character of new developments within the Design District, including the East United Condos building abutting to the south, the East 55 development to the west, and 48 Power Street to the east. The ground floor and mezzanine level would include blank walls along the west and south elevations and on a portion of the east elevation, while the remainder of the east facade and north elevation along Richmond Street East would be glazed to facilitate views onto the street.
The first level would be home to retail space with a floor-to-ceiling height of 8.5 metres, reflective of the high-ceiling warehouse commercial spaces that are found throughout the King-Parliament Area. A mezzanine level would include two indoor amenity spaces, totalling 133m².
Above the mezzanine level, the base building would contain a mix of residential units, with 11 units per floor, including three three-bedroom units in the northwest, northeast and southeast corners of each floor. Of the total of 327 residential units proposed for the building, the mix of unit types is 80 studios (25%), 164 one-bedrooms (50%), 49 two-bedrooms (15%) and 34 three-bedrooms (10%). In addition, 15% of the units have been identified as convertible units —where two side-by-side smaller units could be converted into a single two or three bedroom unit.
A total of 668m² of amenity space is proposed, with 376m² indoors and 292m² outdoors. The indoor amenity space is located in three areas, including two on the mezzanine level and one on Level 8, while the outdoor amenity space is located on Level 8 on the roof of the 7-storey base building. The precise programming of the indoor amenity space has not yet been determined. The outdoor amenity space and green roof would be enclosed by a 3.14 metre tall glass wall, which would extend upward from the face of the base building below.
Vehicular access to loading and to the residential parking garage is proposed from Parliament Street, via the east-west segment of Worts Lane to the south. The proposal is served by four levels of below-grade parking, accessed via two vehicular elevators located on the north side of the widened public laneway. The garage would contain a total of 49 parking spaces, all of which would be for residents. Ten of the spaces would be equipped to support electric vehicles.
The proposal includes a total of 333 bicycle parking spaces, of which 299 spaces are for residents and 34 spaces are for visitors. Eight additional short-term bicycle parking spaces are proposed to be located on the Richmond Street East frontage immediately adjacent to the retail space. The long-term bicycle parking spaces would be located in stackers within storage rooms in each of the P2, P3, and P4 parking levels.
Three streetcar routes and four bus routes currently pass by the site, while plans for the new Ontario Line subway include a new station 2 blocks south of the site.
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