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136 KINGSTON RD
Ward 19 - Tor & E.York District

Development Applications

Proposed 5 level addition with 28 new dwelling units, demolition of 4 dwelling units (136 Kingston Road) and 74 new parking spaces. Proposal total of 139 dwelling units 136 Kingston Road & 23 Edgewood Avenue. Note: parcel includes 3.05-metre wide strip to the rear (west) of 140 Kingston Road

Current site:

The addition is at the rear of the property:

The developer is Akwa Honsta, which offers apartments to members of the Aboriginal community:

Akwa Honsta

Akwa Honsta is an ABORIGINAL Housing Provider offering Rent-geared-to-Income (RGI) apartments to members of the ABORIGINAL community in a well established neighbourhood in the east-end of Toronto. The mandate of AKWA HONSTA is to provide safe, clean and affordable housing to individuals and...

www.akwahonsta.com

 

[Marcanadian]

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentApplications/associatedApplicationsList.do?action=init&folderRsn=4595266

 

[AlbertC]

Agenda Item History - 2020.TE21.11

136 Kingston Road - Rental Housing Demolition Application - Final Report

Summary​

An application for a Rental Housing Demolition and Conversion permit under Chapter 667 of the Municipal Code has been filed for the residential property at 136 Kingston Road. This application seeks approval to demolish and replace twelve (12) social housing units within an existing residential rental apartment building which is owned and operated by Akwa Honsta Non-profit Aboriginal Homes Inc., a non-profit housing provider. The applicant has proposed to provide on-site replacement of the existing units within a five-storey rear addition to the existing building. A minor variance application to alter the existing four-storey apartment building by constructing a five-storey rear addition to the west side was approved by the Committee of Adjustment on September 2, 2020. The addition would result in twenty-four (24) net new dwelling units, for a total of one hundred and seventeen (117) social housing units (inclusive of the replacement of the 12 social housing units) on the site. The application was approved under the Open Door Affordable Housing Program in 2017. This report reviews and recommends approval of the Rental Housing Demolition Permit under Chapter 667 of the Toronto Municipal Code.​

 

[AlbertC]

136 Kingston | UrbanToronto

136 Kingston, Toronto by 1, COMN Architects

urbantoronto.ca

 

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[AlbertC]

Akwa Honsta | COMN Architects

COMN Architects is an award winning design firm practicing architecture and interior design. Based in Toronto, the studio specializes in commercial and residential projects.

www.comnarchitects.com

 

[egotrippin]

Great way to almost invisibly increase density, I imagine there are hundreds of similar buildings across the city that could support this sort of intensification.

 

[HousingNowTO]

This Akwa Honsta affordable-housing expansion project was given $9.5-MILLION in funding by the Federal Government this week, as part of the CMHC Rapid Housing funding announcements in Toronto...

City of Toronto and Government of Canada supporting non-profit partners to rapidly deliver 260 new affordable and supportive homes in Toronto

News Release July 8, 2022 Today, Mayor John Tory was joined by the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, along with Julie Dzerowicz, Member of Parliament for Davenport; James Maloney, Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore; and Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão...

www.toronto.ca

 

[70Challenger]

I like how it's pretty much a modern version of the existing building.

 

[Hyperreal.Edwin]

This project is under construction now

 

[Hyperreal.Edwin]

February 25th!

 

[flonicky]

In a better world they would relocate the parking and naturalize this portion of ravine. Coyotes were howling tonight.

 

[flonicky]

 

[HousingNowTO]

136 KINGSTON ROAD affordable rental expansion project has reached "move-in" stage -

They did a good job on matching the Brick and the Window styles between the old original building -- and the new addition... (*at least to my philistine's eyes)...

 

[Northern Light]

They did a good job on matching the Brick and the Window styles between the old original building -- and the new addition... (*at least to my philistine's eyes)...
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I don''t know that they 'matched' the brick all that well, we'd have to see what colour we'd get if the cleaned the original, which they have not, but they did do patching on the original (roofline in the above pic, on the left, around 2 upper floor windows) that looks absolutely terrible.

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On the windows, you can see the 3 rows of windows closest to the new addition are all replacements, and based the way the windows to the left look, they were reformatted to match the addition. (taller vertically than the original windows). Good, important project, bad patch job aside, I won't be hard on it. The replacement windows seem like an upgrade.