Oakville 2172 Wyecroft Road | 117.93m | 35s | Northbridge | Turner Fleischer

[Paclo]

2172 Wyecroft Road: a proposed 35, 32, 28 & 25-storey mixed-use residential, retail & daycare development designed by Turner Fleischer Architects for Northbridge Investment Management on the south side of Wyecroft Road, west of Third Line in West Oakville.

Read more about it in our front page article:

Bronte GO MTSA Triggers Four-Tower Proposal in Oakville | UrbanToronto

Northbridge Investment Management has filed plans for a predominantly residential, four-tower community at 2172 Wyecroft Road, beside Bronte GO station in Oakville. Designed by Turner Fleischer Architects, the proposal marks the first development to advance within the Bronte GO Major Transit...

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[KAR246]

Finally some plans for development around Bronte GO! Here are some more things I found looking through the development application here.
It has a total number of 1798 parking spaces (residential and visitor), or a parking ratio of 1.11... pretty high considering its right next to the Bronte GO station and bus terminal. It has a total of 1622 bicyle parking spaces, only one more than whats required by zoning laws...
Unit sizes are focused on 1B with percentages being, 60.6% 1B or 1B+D, 36.1% 2B or 2B+D, and 3.3% 3B or 3B+D, with the overall average unit size being 716 sqft.
Here is the site plan:

Its really odd that this isn't planned to have some sort of direct connection to the adjacent bus terminal, instead forcing residents to walk up to Wyecroft and then back down to the station...

Ground floor plan:

Council is probably going to be much less aggressive against this one due to its less aggressive heights compared to what has been proposed around Oakville GO, but I still suspect pushback.

 

[ben.thebean1]

This is incredible to see, but my god what a horrible place to live. Other than those two small retail spaces (where very few business types can survive), there is NOTHING withing walking distance except the GO station. Literally nothing. Not a restaurant, park, coffee shop, nothing.

 

[KAR246]

This is incredible to see, but my god what a horrible place to live. Other than those two small retail spaces (where very few business types can survive), there is NOTHING withing walking distance except the GO station. Literally nothing. Not a restaurant, park, coffee shop, nothing.

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Currently it is a pretty awful place to live, but that's just something that has to happen with huge redevelopment projects like this. Also to be fair it's only a short (future) bus ride away from the huge store complex at Burloak and Wyecroft, which will be easy to get to once the Wyecroft extension is complete sometime next year.

 

[Sauga89]

If you're building a new urban centre from scratch, it should be on a north-south road I think, as well as an east-west road.

The question I ask myself is, what route does a future north-south BRT take?

I can't help but see Oakville making the same mistakes Mississauga made. Mississauga has allowed its downtown to spread westwards, away from the Hurontario corridor. The new LRT has a downtown loop proposed, but even if built, it'll be a huge detour.

If the answer to the Oakville BRT route question is Third Line, then both the GO station and this development are 650 metres west of where they should be. As it stands now any buses on the Third Line corridor have to detour out of their way to serve the GO station. If the town of Oakville wants a new urban node around Bronte GO, it should push the province to shift the platforms and MTSA westwards.

Here is the current Bronte MTSA:

Even without a BRT, buses still face the same detour to serve this development and cars would have to drive along Wyecroft to get north or south. And Wyecroft will jam up with QEW traffic too once the new Bronte creek bridge opens.