from today's National Post....by this article, the building will be 278 metres high....also, from comments here, and by the mayor at the launch, I think they will get approval for whatever height they want.....
The developers of a condo tower at One Bloor Street East may well have provoked a near-riot this week among real estate agents when they began selling the condos, but it turns out they do not have anything approaching city approval for the project, pictured above.
In fact, Bazis International, the Kazahkstan-based company that owns the land at the southeast corner of Bloor and Yonge streets, only last Friday filed an application for a zoning change and site plan approval for the 80-storey-tower.
One piece of the site, the part closest to the corner, does have existing zoning permitting a 205-metre-high, mixed-use development, says Corwin Cambray, the City of Toronto planner in charge of the application.
The company's new application extends the project to two other addresses, 709 and 711 Yonge Street, and takes away a public lane that runs along the east boundary of those addresses. Plus, Bazis now wants to build a 248-metre high building, with an additional 20 metres for a "mechanicals penthouse" and 10 metres more for eight "architectural fins." In layman's terms, Bazis is now asking the city to let it build something about 250 feet higher than that for which it has permission.
"We've had a number of meetings with them over a number of months," Mr. Cambray said. "The heights and all that are in line with what we are supporting."
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