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Trolleybus Urban Development has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application to the City of Toronto in the hopes of developing a 10-storey, L-shaped residential building located at 16 Centre Avenue, a few lots east of Yonge Street in Toronto's Newtonbrook neighbourhood. The street-level of the building would be fitted with two-storey townhomes, each with street access and landscaped patios.
The site is comprised of three lots — 16, 18, and 20 Centre — each currently occupied by a single detached house. The assembly is located just east of the proposed 27-storey at 6125 Yonge Street that we covered a couple of months back — separated from it by three properties at 10, 12, and 14 Centre.
According to the Planning Rationale supplied to the City, the building is designed to respond to its immediate context of single-family homes with generous setbacks from Centre Avenue on levels 3, 6 and 9.
Designed by IBI Group, the proposed building, with a total GFA of 16,706m² and an FSI of 3.99, would replace the three existing detached homes with 220 residential units. The design proposes to include 140 one-bedroom units, 55 two-bedroom units, and 10 three-bedroom units, along with 15 three-bedroom townhouses.
There are 454m² of indoor amenity space proposed, complimented by a further 427m² of outdoor amenity space. Programming for amenity spaces has not yet been decided.
Two levels of underground parking, which would be accessed by the internal driveway, would provide 193 parking spaces and 166 bicycle parking spaces.
Finch subway station, which is also served by TTC, GO, and YRT VIVA buses, is 1.4 km south of the site. Several serve stops at Yonge and Centre. An extension of the Yonge Subway north into York Region will have a station at Steeles Avenue, about 800 metres to the north, while another possible station at Cummer and Drewry avenues, about 700 metres to the south, remains unconfirmed.
More information on the development will come soon, but in the meantime, you can learn more from our Database file for the project, linked below. If you'd like, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread, or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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