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275 Westney Road South: a proposed mixed-use 27 to 29-storey apartment buildings and townhouses by The Westney Developments on the east side of Westney Road South, north of Bayly Street West in southwest Ajax.

Rendering via the Central Ajax Intensification, Servicing & Transportation (CAIST) Strategy of March 2021:
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The lands were converted and added to the Ajax MTSA in that year as well:
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Ajax GO Station Secondary Plan

As a Protected Major Transit Station Area (PMTSA), the Ajax GO Station Area serves an important role in accommodating future growth and intensification in the Town of Ajax. It is a priority of the Town to ensure that future development and redevelopment within the Ajax
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Fritter said:
Maybe it's the same answer as to why all the fantasy hotel towers proposed in Niagara Falls .
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Killer view of the rapids on Duffins Creek from these buildings! I'm surprised they think they can even sell units on the other side of the hall that do not face them!

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innsertnamehere said:
What’s with all these ridiculous mega towers that are never going to happen in the middle of an industrial park in Ajax? They all make no sense.
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It's easier for me to think of these as conformity exercises on behalf of the developer- the density is technically permitted (or ~so), they just need to lock in the OP and zoning.

The bigger problem therein is why we've allowed this cat-and-mouse to go on. Just because they can build this, doesn't mean the conditions are there to move on it. People seem to forget there's an inverse problem of upzoning, where everything's got too much potential compared to what the market can support... and this isn't coming soon.

I feel there's room to at least consider if we had done a phase-in of MTSA permissions. I'm inclined we follow our intuitions that the outer (905) employment areas are not the most prime redevelopment candidates, at least not all of them, immediately. That was something the UGCs ontop of GO Stations did well conceptually- those usually have something else going for them.
 
As far as I know, a developer wouldn't be bound to build 60 storeys tall on a site approved for 60 storey towers. This is our collective online community misinterpreting the overtly complicated process as a perishable permitted development proposal than a pre-development zoning exercise. It's too early to consider the full rendering package provided as the proposed plan that will be constructed determined by municipal approval.
 
maestro said:
As far as I know, a developer wouldn't be bound to build 60 storeys tall on a site approved for 60 storey towers. This is our collective online community misinterpreting the overtly complicated process as a perishable permitted development proposal than a pre-development zoning exercise. It's too early to consider the full rendering package provided as the proposed plan that will be constructed determined by municipal approval.
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What? The developer is getting permits and the whole public review process to build 5 towers - 60 floors each but will not be liable to follow through? After getting approvals can he just build 10 storey buildings and.. bounce?
 
mferna said:
Read our newest update on this development here.
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"Across the five towers, the development would deliver 3,188 condominium units. The unit mix is weighted toward smaller households, with 1,728 one-bedroom and 1,460 two-bedroom suites, and no studios nor three-bedroom units proposed."​


WTH is this... If they really want to sell units... Reduce the 1bed units and increase 2bed+den ; 3bed units...

No wonder the condo market drops like a rock when newer immigrants aren't pouring in... 😭
 
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