Toronto 847 Kingston | 46.7m | 13s | Gabriele Homes | Teeple Architects

ChesterCopperpot said:
A tale as old as time

"The Protect Our Ravines group insists they are not anti-development – just that this location is not the place for this project."
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I'm in touch w/some area residents, many understand that the real issue here is the STOS buffer, not the height, along with TRCA erosion control access.

Sure the usual suspects are there making noise too, with a plethora of asks/reasons, some more sincere than others.

Really though, the proponent here has to pull in the west side of the building.

The height is not an environmental issue at all, since the proposal is situated north of the ravine, there is no shadow here to speak of.........

The neighbours are free to object to the height, but can't use any green fig leaves on that one.
 
Northern Light said:
Thumbing through the App, we see that an additional parcel was purchased and added to the assembly here.

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Street view of the added property:


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The landscape plans flag a couple of issues here:

1) No street trees on the Kingston Road frontage

2) Did they run by the TRCA the idea of building within the 10M buffer from the Long-Term Stable Top of Bank? That didn't work out for Diamond...............I see TRCA did comment (and staked the LTSS) very peculiar.

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Northern Light said:
First CMC here is April 2nd, 2025

Bousfields has newly registered to lobby on this one, so I think we can presume some discussions are either ongoing or imminent.
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How do you see Bousfields as a lobbyist? I can't find that in the registry.
 
city_dweller said:
How do you see Bousfield
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s as a lobbyist? I can't find that in the registry.
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Not sure what issue you're having.

I just typed it into the search field and this is what I got back:
 
beachmetro.com

UPDATE: Agreement on proposal for what will now be 13-storey building on Kingston Road at north end of Glen Stewart Ravine released – Beach Metro Community News

This sketch released today (Dec. 19) shows the 13-storey mixed-use residential building now expected to built on the southwest corner of Kingston Road and
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UPDATE: Agreement on proposal for what will now be 13-storey building on Kingston Road at north end of Glen Stewart Ravine released​


Details have emerged this afternoon on the previously “confidential” agreement between the City of Toronto and a local developer for a proposed multi-storey building on Kingston Road at the north side of the Glen Stewart Ravine.

Toronto Council approved the agreement with the developer at its Dec. 17 meeting. The details of the agreement had been confidential until they were released by the city today (Friday, Dec. 19).

Prior to the release of today’s information, the most recent public proposal for 847-855 Kingston Rd., just west of Beech Avenue, called for an 11-storey mixed-use residential building with 99 units. As proposed, the building would have a zero-metre setback from “long-term stable slope” at the ravine’s northern edge.

The developer, Gabriele Homes Ltd., had brought the proposal to the OLT and a hearing was planned for April of 2026. The city, the developer and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) held negotiation meetings on the proposal this summer in the hopes of reaching a settlement agreement prior to the OLT hearing.

That agreement was reached and details on it are starting to emerge, including that the deal between the city and developer will see the building now at 13 storeys in height, with another storey and a half for a mechanical penthouse.

“Worse than expected! The settlement is now public. It will take some time to digest, but the bottom line is 13 storeys (14.5 if you count the penthouse) and less than 10 m(etre) setback on the west side,” said Cherie Daly in a post on the Friends of the Glen Stewart Ravine Facebook page this afternoon.

“Although the developer did give some land to the city and has to meet many other requirements, we are very disappointed with this decision. This is now zoned mixed use and natural area. We are quite concerned about the precedent it sets.”

There were a number of motions prior to Toronto Council voting on whether to approve the agreement. The motion to approve the agreement passed by a council vote of 17-6.

Voting against accepting the agreement between the city and the developer were Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher, Eglinton-Lawrence Councillor Mike Colle, Etobicoke Centre Councillor Stephen Holyday, Toronto-St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow and Scarborough-Rouge Park Councillor Neethan Shan.

For more details on the council vote, please go to https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.DM35.1

For more reaction from Friends of the Glen Stewart Ravine, please visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofglenstewartravine/


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ProjectEnd said:
Cope. Group.

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With respect PE, this isn't funny.

Its an architectural morass, by people who don't care about the environment and haven't respected minimally acceptable standards either.

There's nothing here to redeem this, not socially (affordable housing) not aesthetically.

The Nimby set are too much, as always, but the proponent here was in the legal and moral wrong and they still are.
 
Sites like these really highlight how ridiculous the City's loading standards are. Like, look at that asinine ground floor plan. It kills the entire project.

Just allow the Type G to reverse onto Beech. Better yet, allow curbside loading off Beech so you don't need a 20 foot tall ground floor.
 
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