Northern Light
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Proponent is the Learning Enrichment Foundation:
Architect is LGA
Images of site, as-is, from the Planning Report:
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Proponent is the Learning Enrichment Foundation:
Architect is LGA
Images of site, as-is, from the Planning Report:
HousingNowTO
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The Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF) has been part of the Mount Dennis neighbourhood community for over 40 years. Help LEF shape the future of The Mount Dennis Quilt and visualize a streetscape for locations on Weston Road that aligns with the community vision.
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Maijamartin
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As a community member I have a number of questions / concerns:
1. The proposal is for 132 affordable housing units - what does this mean and what will they cost? How long will the units be designated as affordable housing? Will there be any market rent units in the building? Has there been any consideration of designating some units as co-operative housing?
2. The application does not address how the proposed development is in line with the green neighbourhood designation for Mount Dennis - please address this.
3. The entrance to the parking is currently proposed on Somerville avenue. This will be hugely disruptive to the residential street where there is already limited parking. The entrance to the parking should be moved to Weston Road where there are no detached homes.
4. Black businesses in the neighbourhood should be preserved. What is the plan to include them in the development?
1. The proposal is for 132 affordable housing units - what does this mean and what will they cost? How long will the units be designated as affordable housing? Will there be any market rent units in the building? Has there been any consideration of designating some units as co-operative housing?
2. The application does not address how the proposed development is in line with the green neighbourhood designation for Mount Dennis - please address this.
3. The entrance to the parking is currently proposed on Somerville avenue. This will be hugely disruptive to the residential street where there is already limited parking. The entrance to the parking should be moved to Weston Road where there are no detached homes.
4. Black businesses in the neighbourhood should be preserved. What is the plan to include them in the development?
Northern Light
Superstar
Welcome to UT.
A quick note that we are a forum of people interested in development in the City of Toronto from a variety of personal and professional perspectives, but we are neither the City of Toronto, nor a developer/proponent; and some of your questions are better addressed by them; that said, I will answer what I can.
The Housing Issues Report may be of interest to you. If you follow the link in post number one it can be found under 'Supporting Documents', page 3.
A couple of bits of info from that report:
Under Supporting Documents you will find the Toronto Green Standards Checklist; it appears this development will seek Tier 2 approval which means higher than the minimum requirements.
The streetscaping proposal does include trees along the Weston Road frontage; the plant list details will not be available until a later stage of the process known as the Site Plan Approval.
This would be contrary to City policy which seeks to keep parking access off of main roads wherever possible. There are two reasons for this, the first is that a parking entrance can have a deadening effect on a retail strip taking up space that would otherwise be one or two storefronts, the second is that the main street has much higher volumes of traffic meaning more people are likely to be impacted by delays as a result of cars accessing a parking facility or egressing from it, on a main street.
I will note, in this case, we're talking about only 50 parking spaces, this is a very small provision of spaces which will not likely have any discernible effect on the side street traffic. We're talking one additional car every few minutes in rush hour.
I don't believe any retail businesses are displaced by this proposal.
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A Torontonian Now
Senior Member
Today:
Kek123
New Member
Anyone know what's up with this project?
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Spoke about this Weston site with Councillor Nunziata during questioning about another Affordable Housing site at Planning & Housing Committee today…
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
...based on the public Q & A with Councillor Nunziata during questioning about other Affordable Housing sites at Planning & Housing Committee yesterday - the short-form answer to - "what's up with this project?" - is =
Not-for-Profit needs 19-Storeys to make the MATH work for Affordable Housing at that site in 2023... but City Planning saying they need to conform to a maximum 12-Storey limit on that site.
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Kek123
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Thanks.
HousingNowTO
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artyboy123
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New rendering updated to the database. The storey changed from 19 storey to 14 storey. Height changed from 58.50m to 46.31m. The total unit increased from 132 units to 175 units. The total car parking was reduced from 50 car parking to 18 car parking.
Rendering taken from the arch plan via Rezoning.
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Rendering taken from the arch plan via Rezoning.
Application Details
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HousingNowTO
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Hmmm... ??New rendering updated to the database. The storey changed from 19 storey to 14 storey. Height changed from 58.50m to 46.31m. The total unit increased from 132 units to 175 units. The total car parking was reduced from 50 car parking to 18 car parking.
Rendering taken from the arch plan via Rezoning.
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Application Details
Will need to look at BEFORE and AFTER for their R-GFA and Unit-Mix / Total Bedrooms, etc...??
artyboy123
Senior Member
I was also quite surprised to see the changes haha
artyboy123
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Northern Light
Superstar
Hmmm, residential GFA up by just shy of 700m2.
But unit total up by 43.
If unit sizes had remained constant that would make the new units just over 16m2 or ~170ft2 each.
LOL
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Indeed the unit mix has changed. Previously there were no Studios:
Previous:
Resubmission:
Difference:
Studios +48
1bdrm + 3
2 Bedroom - 15
3 Bedroom - +5
4 Bedroom + 2
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Unit sizes are not shown on the new Arch. Drawings.
But unit total up by 43.
If unit sizes had remained constant that would make the new units just over 16m2 or ~170ft2 each.
LOL
*****
Indeed the unit mix has changed. Previously there were no Studios:
Previous:
Resubmission:
Difference:
Studios +48
1bdrm + 3
2 Bedroom - 15
3 Bedroom - +5
4 Bedroom + 2
****
Unit sizes are not shown on the new Arch. Drawings.