I have reviewed this application in the past. It is certainly an interesting development, and I'd be curious how the units look once they are built. The frontage on this and the neighboring lot is ~12ft only. Waiting to see how these look once built.

Yes. If you have one unit in the Basement, one on GND floor and one covering the 2nd & 3rd floor, then you don't need a stairwell from the GND to the 3rd floor area, and can have just one set of stairwell leading to the 2nd floor area of that unit. But you will obviously need a staircase leading...

Not sure I follow. You say 1 unit in the bsmt , 1 on main floor, and 1 on the 2nd&3rd Floor. How is that a fourplex? I am guessing you meant to say have 2 units on the GND floor or the Main floor? If that is the case, then you should be allowed 4 units without the need for a second stair case...

Building Permits say the proposal is to alter by constructing a third floor addition, a fourth floor addition, a rear four-storey addition, and a rooftop terrace to result in nine new residential dwelling units and one commercial unit.

Is this a multiplex? Don't see any CoA's or any Active Building permits for this address.

I believe, If you stick to a triplex, then you won't need the two staircases.

For 1548 Queen St W ? I believe it's romanov romanov Architects, But don't think they do many such developments.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the Federal $ basically for 3 units, and then some cities went the extra mile and allowed 4 units/lot?

Anyone knows, What took this project this long to get started?

It doesn't make a lot of financial sense, plain & simple. House prices haven't come down meaningfully to reflect the current interest rates. Construction loans and bridge loans carry much more interest than before these policies were introduced. And back then you could still build a lot of these...

I was replying to the question about each unit being sold separately which would require each unit to be on separate title. That is certainly not as-of-right.

It's allowed, but the timeline to get it approved is often similar to high rise projects. This results in much higher holding costs. Also the appetite imo is low for such a product in comparison to just buying a condo. As for splitting into townhouses and selling it, That does happen but will...

What kind of multiplexes or what is the minimum storeys are double egress relevant for? The lower end of the missing middle i.e 4 units and below don't have issues with this, do they?

Sorry for being offtopic. I was looking to get an answer to a zoning related question, and was wondering what thread or forum should I be posting that in? I couldn't find a dedicated thread or forum to ask such question. Would appreciate it if someone can direct me to the relevant thread/section...

Do we yet know what is being built here? I remember from the Little Italy/College St thread that there was no CoA application for it.

Yeah, I am not sure why they decided to do it as such. If somebody develops a 6 unit building, they have to pay 6 Development charges. But for 5 units, they have to pay none. So it kills the incentivize to develop anything b/w 6-10 units. I believe over 10 units, you might be able to make sense...

Is it correct to say that we will see less of 6-9 units now as Development charges will have to be paid for all units, versus being waived off for upto 5 units?