Toronto 10 Ruddington Drive | 43.33m | 14s | Novi Properties | StudioAC

[AlbertC]

Some tower-in-the-park apartment community intensification up in the Bayview & Ruddington area, which is about half way between Finch and Cummer.

Development Applications

City Planning COA Application Information Center

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10 RUDDINGTON DR
Ward 17: Don Valley North

Zoning bylaw Amendment to retain the existing 14-storey rental apartment building with 155 residential units, construct a 14-storey rental apartment building with 182 residential units, and construct a 10-storey condominium apartment building with 131 residential units. Total 468 units. Parkland dedication proposed. 101 proposed vehicular parking spaces. FSI = 2.15.

 

[Northern Light]

Landscape Plan for the above:

Aerial view of the site as it is with the existing building.

 

[Undead]

I would bump the Bayview building to 20 or so floors. The extra height shouldn't be a problem because it's not facing SFH.

 

[Northern Light]

This one went to the OLT ages ago.

The full hearing is scheduled for March.

Ahead of that, a report to next week's Council meeting will present a settlement offer:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-234060.pdf

From the above:

 

[noreallyitsme]

Updated docs posted July 6. Hope this goes smoothly from here.

 

[Northern Light]

From the Cover Letter (July 6th). (the new docs (substantially) reflect the settlement noted above)

Amended Site Plan:

 

[Undead]

I've been on foot through this area many times.

Based on my observations, I'd rather the parkland dedication be directed toward improvements to the East Don Parkland: formalized desire paths, better seating/picnic areas, better sightlines for bikes and peds to avoid near misses.

There may also be an opportunity to improve access to and through the Sawley Banstock Greenbelt park thing.

Buy out 1-2 houses at the NW and SE ends, add modest park entrances and run a paved path end to end (if the flooding/elevation allows).

It's a large area, comfortably 5+ acres and could make for a really neat local amenity. But walking past on the street, you'd hardly know it was there. NW corner at Sawley and Banstock:

SE corner at Banstock:

You'd think it's just part of someone's backyard.

There's also an opportunity to leverage this greenspace for the dev app at 630 Finch East. Hmm, maybe add the s.37 and 42 money from that site to 10 Ruddington and make the above greenspace into a usable park? Kill multiple birds with one stone.

P.S. Totally didn't pick up doing this style of post from Northern Light lmao.

 

[Paclo]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Minor post-settlement tweaks including technical revisions.

No new renderings.