[Northern Light]

Evans Planning has registered to lobby on behalf of the client noted above, in service of a planning application for the above assembly.

OTT is listed as the parent/beneficiary.

The site in question is a series of SFH bunalows lining Lawrence West just a bit east of Allen Road.

This most likely falls within the MTSA for Lawrence West Station.

Site as is:

Aerial View:

Site Size: In the area of 33,000ft2

Comments: The site is nominally large enough to feature a variety of forms or up to two towers. Currently, it would face serious constraints in having SFH both to the immediate west and south of the site.
However, given the probable zoning change and proximity to transit, those obstacles may not be long for this world. The distance to Lawrence West Station is just under 400M. However, there is a further barrier to height here, potentially, in the form of the HS sports field more or less across the street and to the north of this assembly. A hi midrise, low tower form seems most feasible here, subject to whether the neighbours still exist in a few years.

 

[Towered]

Fantastic - away with that trash!!

 

[whatever]

However, there is a further barrier to height here, potentially, in the form of the HS sports field more or less across the street and to the north of this assembly.

The field to the north belongs to the city, not the school, and is slated to be removed when Varna gets realigned as part of the Lawrence Heights revitalization

And that school is badly underutilized and has an enormous repair backlog. It's unlikely to be there in its current form a decade from now

 

[Northern Light]

The field to the north belongs to the city, not the school, and is slated to be removed when Varna gets realigned as part of the Lawrence Heights revitalization

And that school is badly underutilized and has an enormous repair backlog. It's unlikely to be there in its current form a decade from now

Interesting. (good contribution); I have to go look up the Lawrence Heights plan for schools again, I suppose, but not right now....

 

[junctionist]

There are so many similar blocks in the city with undesirable single family homes facing a major street and with similar homes fronting onto a side street on the other site of the same city block.

Why don't developers buy up the houses on both sides? They could replace the houses with a midrise building at minimum that steps down to 3 storey townhomes along the side street. Add a row of trees and some quality landscaping along both streets, and you have an attractive and metropolitan built form.

 

[Undead]

Why don't developers buy up the houses on both sides?

Can't buy if someone's not selling