Non-Residential/Residential Demolition Application - 12 and 20 Dawes Road

This item will be considered by Toronto and East York Community Council on April 21, 2021. City Council has delegated final decision-making authority for the subject of this agenda item. The Toronto and East York Community Council will make the final decision on this item unless any amendments it approves exceed its authority.

 
Non-Residential/Residential Demolition Application - 12 and 20 Dawes Road

This item will be considered by Toronto and East York Community Council on April 21, 2021. City Council has delegated final decision-making authority for the subject of this agenda item. The Toronto and East York Community Council will make the final decision on this item unless any amendments it approves exceed its authority.


Of note from this report:

The development proposal is currently in the final stages in a City initiated OPA 478 settlement mediation, expected to wrap-up June 2021.
 
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Site Plan Approval application submitted on Aug. 10:

Development Applications

Updated project description:
Site Plan Approval for two mixed-use towers having heights of 24 and 38-storeys, and having a residential gross floor area of 40,408 square metres, and a non-residential gross floor area of 2670 square metres. A total of 636 residential dwelling units are proposed.
 
Had a peak at the site yesterday, October 19.

The nearside of the vegetation below was a portion of the site previously free of any buildings, just cluttered w/junk.

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Still not completely tidy:

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Looking north across the newly demo'd bit:

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Only piece of equipment still on site is on the south side of Guest Ave:

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Heritage buildings behind Fast Fence:

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I was just wondering has this condo project and the one across the street (9 Dawes Rd) been given the go-ahead to start construction after the demolition?
 
I was just wondering has this condo project and the one across the street (9 Dawes Rd) been given the go-ahead to start construction after the demolition?
No. Both applications have been appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal. They're working towards a settlement with the City re: 9 Dawes, not sure if that's the case here or not.

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City seeks heritage designation for former grist and flour mill at south end of Dawes Road


Jan 3, 2022

The building on the west side of the road is a former grist and flour mill that was constructed in approximately 1895, said the city’s notice of intended designation.

“It was likely originally occupied by the East Toronto Milling Company…The Chalmers Milling Company owned and operated out of 10 and 10A Dawes Road from 1905 until the properties were sold to the Elizabeth Flour & Seed Milling Co. in 1952,” said the notice.

“The company continued to occupy the properties 10A and 10 Dawes Road for 29 years until they were sold and adaptively reused in 1981 and 2007 respectively.”

Most recently, the space at 10 Dawes Rd. was home to the Silver Mill Gallery which offered programs for Toronto’s emerging digital artists.

The buildings at 10 and 10A Dawes Rd. consist of a two-and-a-half storey brick building with a one-storey attached brick building at the rear that housed the steam mechanism operating the mill, and a three-storey building including the mill’s metal-clad grain elevator.

“The property at 10 Dawes Road is valued as a rare surviving example of the grain elevator building type in the historic village of Little York and the Town of East Toronto,” said the city’s notice.

“It is also valued as a rare surviving example of a grain elevator built in a wooden-crib form, a construction style that was replaced during the 1920s by concrete grain terminals and later, by steel. The three-storey box form structure was purpose-built to raise grain from a pit below the basement at its southeast corner and then elevate it through the building into nine storage silos where it could be kept before being milled in the neighbouring structure at 10A Dawes Road.”

The notice said the wheel and rubber conveyor belt housed in the mill’s headhouse still exists.

The lands and building are historically important and requires heritage designation because of their association with what were once the large railway lands directly to the south and the activity of milling, said the notice.

These activities were “significant in the development of the village of Little York during the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The opening of the Grand Trunk Railway’s (GTR) freight yard and roundhouse to the south of the subject properties and the relocation of York Station to Dawes Road, significantly contributed to the early wave of residential subdivision and industrialization of the area,” said the notice.

 

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