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This new to the AIC proposal for a current Beer Store and retail pad site at the north end of the Metro lands at Bayview and Eglinton.
@Paclo
Site as-is, per Streetview:
It includes the parking to the east, roughly identical in width to the building footprint, up to the current gas station:
The App:
www.toronto.ca
From the above:
Note on the image below, that the short building in the foreground is the existing Metro:
Site Plan:
Ground Floor Plan:
Description:
Comments:
Superficially, there isn't much to object to here; the height is fine, the buildings don't look bad per se......... but what amounts to a straight-line 15s street wall strikes me as non-starter. This is a particular problem for this proposal
if you take it seriously, because the floor plates are so tiny to begin with that knocking the upper portion of the building in by even 2M surely renders the proposal completely and utterly non-viable.
Sooo, that brings me to my next comment.........this can't be real. Or at least I'll request UT's industry types to work over the numbers with me, but I have real difficulty making them work.
The larger building has a floor plate under 700m2........ could work..........maybe.........but the smaller is sub 400m2.....
There are other issues here......
Have a look at the Block Context Plan and tell me how many errors you can find:
There's there's the way they conceptualize the Metro lands and their proposed separation distances:
Seriously now....
I get that the Metro property has divided parcels (and ownership)
But that is just terrible conceptually. I'll grant that Mx's method for building the Crosstown station box here is part of the problem as long discussed by @HousingNowTO ....but it can't sterilize as much land as that context plan would suggest.
Also, I don't care what the SASP says.........no tiny little useless park fronting Bayview. Put any dollars into expanding Charlotte Mahar Park, ideally by buying all the properties on its eastern flank, it would dramatically improve programmability.
In the end, I assume, I hope, this app is somewhere between a zone/flip and an exercise to put pressure on Metro to buy them out.
@Paclo
Site as-is, per Streetview:
It includes the parking to the east, roughly identical in width to the building footprint, up to the current gas station:
The App:
Application Details
www.toronto.ca
From the above:
Note on the image below, that the short building in the foreground is the existing Metro:
Site Plan:
Ground Floor Plan:
Description:
Comments:
Superficially, there isn't much to object to here; the height is fine, the buildings don't look bad per se......... but what amounts to a straight-line 15s street wall strikes me as non-starter. This is a particular problem for this proposal
if you take it seriously, because the floor plates are so tiny to begin with that knocking the upper portion of the building in by even 2M surely renders the proposal completely and utterly non-viable.
Sooo, that brings me to my next comment.........this can't be real. Or at least I'll request UT's industry types to work over the numbers with me, but I have real difficulty making them work.
The larger building has a floor plate under 700m2........ could work..........maybe.........but the smaller is sub 400m2.....
There are other issues here......
Have a look at the Block Context Plan and tell me how many errors you can find:
There's there's the way they conceptualize the Metro lands and their proposed separation distances:
Seriously now....
I get that the Metro property has divided parcels (and ownership)
But that is just terrible conceptually. I'll grant that Mx's method for building the Crosstown station box here is part of the problem as long discussed by @HousingNowTO ....but it can't sterilize as much land as that context plan would suggest.
Also, I don't care what the SASP says.........no tiny little useless park fronting Bayview. Put any dollars into expanding Charlotte Mahar Park, ideally by buying all the properties on its eastern flank, it would dramatically improve programmability.
In the end, I assume, I hope, this app is somewhere between a zone/flip and an exercise to put pressure on Metro to buy them out.
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