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Here's the City staff's preliminary comments on 40 Scott. Coming to TEYCC next week: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-38813.pdf
Here's the City staff's preliminary comments on 40 Scott. Coming to TEYCC next week: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2011/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-38813.pdf
I see from the report that once again the street trees are sacrificed. Those trees make that part of Scott absolutely lovely. It's a damn shame...and they are not Honey Locusts. They're Shademaster Locusts. (though I have been known to be wrong on extreme rare occasions)
It was awful to see the beautiful mature birches on Scott St. come down to make way for the temporary dressing rooms for the Sony Centre. The same for lower Church when they wacked out a whole block of mature trees for the Bersczy.
Maybe it's just crankiness in my old age, but I can't help being a little skeptical. Is it always absolutely necessary to do this or is really just out of convenience.
I see from the report that once again the street trees are sacrificed. Those trees make that part of Scott absolutely lovely. It's a damn shame...and they are not Honey Locusts. They're Shademaster Locusts. (though I have been known to be wrong on extreme rare occasions)
It was awful to see the beautiful mature birches on Scott St. come down to make way for the temporary dressing rooms for the Sony Centre. The same for lower Church when they wacked out a whole block of mature trees for the Bersczy.
Maybe it's just crankiness in my old age, but I can't help being a little skeptical. Is it always absolutely necessary to do this or is really just out of convenience.
There's a bylaw in place to prevent unnecessary tree removal. They have to apply for a permit to show the removal of the trees is necessary in order to facilitate construction:
http://www.toronto.ca/trees/private_trees.htm
There's a bylaw in place to prevent unnecessary tree removal. They have to apply for a permit to show the removal of the trees is necessary in order to facilitate construction:
http://www.toronto.ca/trees/private_trees.htm
After reviewing the elevations again, I'm a little bit concerned about the north and south elevations. In particular towards the top half of the building the glass (presumably) seems to protrude out whereas it would seem that setbacks would make more sense. That feels messy and a bit sloppy to me.
partial render and address revised to 88 Scott Street, posted at @BuzzBuzzHome's twitter feed....