City Council voted yesterday to send representation to the OMB to support this application. The City has worked out everything that it wants with the developers since the time they appealed this application to the OMB based on the City's lack of a decision within the 120 day review period.

The OMB hearing will start on May 25. Amexon, the owners of the site to the south will be at the hearing to oppose this application as the tower will be only 5 metres from their shared lot line. Amexon wants it to be 12.5 metres from the lot line, their half of the 25 metre separation distance that the City prescribes between towers. Amexon wants to redevelop the Grand Hotel and they do not want their project to be hindered by this one. It will be interesting to see how the OMB responds.

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what if they reduced the floor plate allowing the 12.5m separation but increased the height to keep a similar unit count? Would that be considered better or worse?

just curious
 
City staff report and correspondence from Amexon can be found here
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2015.TE5.79

here is part of the staff rationale

As part of the consideration of this application, and in the course of the Garden District study,
Staff modelled new tower development on the site and adjacent properties. Staff have
determined that it is possible to construct a tower on the property at 175 Dundas Street East and
still construct a new tower on the site of the Grand Hotel to the south (the proposed tower is 25
metres from the existing Grand Hotel building). This policy direction does require that more of
the setback be absorbed by the neighbouring property to the south. However, due to the
constraints presented by the low-rise built form on George Street and the school yard of the
École Gabrielle Roy, it was concluded that the property to the south could only support one
tower, with a lower overall height or alternative massing, and that the development rights of the
southern property were, therefore, not adversely affected by the proposed policies as both
properties could contain one tower. The properties to the east of 175 Dundas Street East are not
considered appropriate for tower development given their cumulative size and their heritage
value being considered as part of the Heritage Conservation District Study. They are not
designated for tall building development in the GDSASP. The proposed tower development at
175 Dundas Street East, with its existing 5 metre setback is appropriate and in keeping with the
policy direction of the Downtown East Planning Study
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GRID Condos or Condominiums

Launches soon.

Looks like a grid:
RAoH1Pt.png


A cheap precast & grey-spandrel & green-glass lined one at that. Ugh.
 
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The Grand is the next one to the south.

The Grid (is that just your suggestion UD?), in this form anyway, will depend upon OMB approval, which they are expecting as the City is on board.

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interchange42 said:
The Grand is the next one to the south.

The Grid (is that just your suggestion UD?), in this form anyway, will depend upon OMB approval, which they are expecting as the City is on board.

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Grid Condos is in fact the name. Apparently it'll be 52 stories.
 
Where does 52 storeys come from? Sources please.

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Not according to the rendering posted above. Each zig or zag adds another 4 floors.

We don't do planning approvals by the number of zigs or zags a building has though, so I'm wondering where the 52 storeys comes from besides real estate agents' websites. What has merited a height increase?

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Looks like aA's Brant Park mixed with every other aA condo projects.
It's almost like a caricature of an aA-designed building.
 
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