AlbertC
Superstar
Continues to move along with a resubmission from Apr 2022:
- Thread starter AlbertC
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AnnetteMeetsJane
Active Member
I really like this proposal - the affordable housing aspect is good and the design is pleasing as it stands at the moment. Only 13 stories seems low - I would happily take a couple more stories for more affordable housing. This is a wide avenue with decent, and rapidly improving, transit links.
The best bit for me? - The smaller commercial spaces! I am not sure that this area will always have a distinctive Chinese character, but it is important that the area retains commercial spaces for smaller entrepreneurial businesses.
Why is the City appealing this proposal? Height?
The best bit for me? - The smaller commercial spaces! I am not sure that this area will always have a distinctive Chinese character, but it is important that the area retains commercial spaces for smaller entrepreneurial businesses.
Why is the City appealing this proposal? Height?
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
The City is NOT appealing this proposal.
The Neighbour (Gabriela Salvatore) is appealing against this proposal.
The barrier for neighbours to appeal any kind of rezoning process in the City is very low - and carries almost no Cost nor Risk to them to file an appeal.
concrete_and_light
Active Member
This building is really fantastic and I hope we see more like this. That said I will rest easier when Rol San is safely and successfully migrated to a new location. 
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Appeal is dismissed without a hearing - but thanks for wasting everyone's time and money....
Northern Light
Superstar
Holy 2#$#..............
I just read the grounds of the appeal in the first place........
Weird does not even cover this........
This person appealed a very reasonable proposal with a voluntary agreement to provide affordable housing on the grounds that it didn't provide enough affordable housing, and that the terms for said affordability should have been longer.
I'm not at all sure if this was serious or the most novel chutzpah driven effort to derail a building yet......while trying to appear as the 'good guy'.
Either way.........this was a truly bizarre appeal that stood no chance on its face.......
Glad the appeal was dismissed!
While I oppose the automatic awarding of costs in such cases, I wouldn't object to that being seriously considered here.......
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...it seems to be a time tested "honour" of using their opponent arguments as a narrative of their objections. Glad some with clout are seeing right through their disingenuous shenanigans, lol.
UrbanAffair
Senior Member
I'm lost. Was the neighbour being disingenuous about the real reasons for their appeal? I would be all for more affordability if it were applied relatively equally across the board, but this situation is truly bizarre.
That's the conjecture - but again, the developers voluntarily offered affordable housing here, and the appellant apparently says "we don't want no stinkin' affordable housing here of which there is not enough"? …because that would have been the effect had the appeal succeeded. Saner heads prevailed.
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rdaner
Senior Member
Photo taken 9 March. Is this hoarding new? Could it be?!
Demo permit was issued last month:
Obsidian
Active Member
Hopefully this will herald more density on Spadina
concrete_and_light
Active Member
Looking forward to this one and hopeful that its approach to street-level turns out well!
And with Rol San safely ensconced in a new location all is well.
(Until that also becomes a development site.)
And with Rol San safely ensconced in a new location all is well.
(Until that also becomes a development site.)
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ProjectEnd
Superstar
And down comes one of the only good things Kirkor's ever done...
innsertnamehere
Superstar
how is Spadina Court a "Good" thing? It's an extremely basic concrete retail box.
Or is that the joke..
Or is that the joke..