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A revised Official Plan Amendment submission has been filed with the City of Toronto for 189 through 195 Old Weston Road. The expanded site now reaches south to 44–46 and 50–52 Lindner Street to include the to include them in the assembled land. Located in the Carleton Village area east of the CP/Metrolinx rail corridor, Limen Developments’ updated plan replaces an earlier mid-rise concept that topped out at 20 storeys, with a taller mixed-use scheme designed by TACT Architecture, featuring heights up to 39 storeys.
The site occupies the east side of Old Weston Road south of Westport Avenue. The original Old Weston Road frontage has long been associated with rail-related industrial activity and is currently used for construction industry equipment storage and staging, while the Lindner Street additions at the south end include a two-storey semi-detached dwelling containing six rental units.
In 2021, an initial Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment application was filed for a mixed-use redevelopment featuring 8- and 20-storey residential buildings rising from a shared podium, alongside a low-rise non-residential arts and retail building. A resubmission followed in March, 2023, increasing heights to 11 and 27 storeys, enlarging the non-residential component, and reworking the massing to introduce a new public park. In September, 2024, the developer acquired the Lindner Street properties to the south. The associated Zoning By-law Amendment was appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal in June, 2025, following Council inaction. Now, Bousfields has resubmitted an Official Plan Amendment application to the City of Toronto on behalf of the developer.
The revised proposal reorganizes the expanded site. Two mixed-use towers are proposed atop an 11-storey base building at the south end of the site, rising to a total of 28 storeys and 39 storeys, with an 11-storey residential mid-rise retained to the north, while a standalone 4-storey non-residential building would front Old Weston Road at the northwest corner. Heights would range from 19.3m to 128m, a substantial increase from peak heights of 68.7m in 2021 and 92m in 2023.
Total Gross Floor Area has more than doubled since the original application, increasing from 27,731m² to 58,654m², comprised of 55,864m² of residential space and 2,789m² of non-residential uses, yielding a Floor Space Index of 5.17 times coverage of the 11,345m² site, compared with 2.71 times previously. Residential unit counts rise from 346 units to 781 units, with the unit mix shifting toward smaller suites: one-bedroom units would now account for roughly three-quarters of the total.
The current proposal provides a total of 3,143m² of amenity space, broadly comparable to the 3,075m² proposed in 2021. Indoor amenities increased markedly from 581m² in the original proposal to 1,563m². Outdoor amenity space has been reduced from 2,495m² to 1,580m². At grade, the plan continues to anchor the public realm with an 818m² public park at the northeast corner of the site fronting Westport Avenue.
A total of 10 elevators would equate to roughly one elevator per 78 dwelling units, indicating brief wait times in normal service. Parking would be situated above grade, screened from view in the podium, with 241 vehicular parking spaces, including 198 resident spaces, 41 visitor spaces, and two car-share spaces, a reduction from the 243 spaces proposed in 2021. Bicycle parking has increased substantially, rising from 430 spaces in the original proposal to 804 spaces in the current scheme. Of these, 712 spaces are allocated to long-term resident use, 82 to short-term resident-visitor use, while 10 would be publicly accessible.
Along with the St Clair streetcar, the site is close to multiple bus routes. Looking ahead, the under construction St Clair–Old Weston GO station on the Kitchener GO corridor is located approximately 800m to the north, introducing a higher-order transit connection within walking distance.
Development activity continues in the surroundings. To the southwest, Junction SQ Condos and 403 Keele Street are both under construction at 5 and 11 storeys, while the nearby 43 Junction proposal would introduce six towers ranging from 18 to 35 storeys. Southeast of the site, The Spoke is rising with buildings of 8 and 23 storeys. To the north, a cluster of taller proposals includes 290 Old Weston Road at 29 storeys, 611 Keele at 33 storeys, Juno Residences with towers of 28 and 35 storeys, and 1799 St Clair West, which would deliver three towers ranging from 30 to 45 storeys.
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