canarob
Senior Member
This is the size of the downtown of some smaller cities! Massive!
Toronto 1920 Eglinton East | ?m | 48s | Madison Group | Turner Fleischer
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Amare
Senior Member
If this entire built form ever sees the light of day, mark my words the entire Golden Mile stretch will become an even more uninspiring stretch than it already is. And it wont be solely at the developers feet, the city will share the exact same amount of blame.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
All that density if built would certainly transform things.
Rupert Pumpkin
Active Member
Looks like we will be close to your 90 estimate with mid and high-rise forms. At least 40 high-rise condos being considered per the Secondary Plan.
Rupert Pumpkin
Active Member
I agree that they are considering a shocking level of intensfication for this stretch of Eglinton but they've done a good job of mapping out Parking and Open Space networks and are planning a good mix of building types throughout the Golden Mile. I think people's "stigma" of this stretch of Eglinton makes most of us skeptical of the plan. I am personally looking forward to seeing it come to fruition and seeing this area gentrified.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
The biggest problem is that they are planning these crazy densities on the surface section of the LRT and planning 6 storey midrises on the subway portion.. it makes no sense.
Rupert Pumpkin
Active Member
Definitely a lack of consistency with the level of density permitted across the LRT. I assume you're talking about the west end of the LRT (Chaplin -Fairbank)?
At the Laird and Leaside stops (underground alignment), they are considering high densities (i.e. Celestica Lands).
At the Laird and Leaside stops (underground alignment), they are considering high densities (i.e. Celestica Lands).
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
The surface LRT portion should still be able to service these densities, but yes it is ridiculous state of affairs in transit planning in this city.
Scarborough after all these years is finally going to get a "downtown" and it is going to be the Golden Mile (or alternatively Agincourt, given the similar levels of densities planned there), meanwhile we are spending billions to build a subway to a mall and gerrymandering all bus routes to there.
Amare
Senior Member
I couldn't disagree more, I think they've done a terrible job mapping out open space networks throughout the entire plan. It's pretty much just copy/paste X amount of times throughout the entire stretch between Vic Park and Birchmount.
For one, all the open green space in the Golden Mile Secondary Plan are being bisected by streets which render them less effective for the purpose they are supposed to be serving. Then add to the fact that there is very little green space between buildings which could have been used to create modern pedestrian streetscapes and it just makes this entire stretch seem walled off from its surroundings.
The fact that it took them how many years to plan this area, and all they came up with is this generic plan that we've seen plastered all over the city is really just distasteful and borderline embarrassing.
I've mentioned it before on the Lansing Square thread, but what has been proposed there is vastly superior in almost every way (minus the parking and townhouses). How is it that a developer can do a better job a planning large city blocks, compared to the city's Planning Dept whose core function is to do exactly that?
Lansing Square Proposal:
Lenser
Senior Member
Ugh. Impressive density but it strikes me as horribly backward.
Northern Light
Superstar
Well City Planning doesn't like this one either............
It's one of 3 Golden Mile parcels facing opposition, via Request for Directions reports to the Feb 26th meeting of Scarborough Community Council.
Report here: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/sc/bgrd/backgroundfile-164106.pdf
The report reads as scathing.
You don't need to read between the lines on this one..............the City just hates it.
From the report:
It's one of 3 Golden Mile parcels facing opposition, via Request for Directions reports to the Feb 26th meeting of Scarborough Community Council.
Report here: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/sc/bgrd/backgroundfile-164106.pdf
The report reads as scathing.
You don't need to read between the lines on this one..............the City just hates it.
From the report:
Northern Light
Superstar
A report to the Nov 3rd meeting of the TDSB's Planning and Priority Ctte indicates that the TLC (Toronto Lands Co., on behalf of TDSB) has entered discussions with Madison about
a possible elementary school at this site.
Report here: https://pub-tdsb.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=9579
From the above:
a possible elementary school at this site.
Report here: https://pub-tdsb.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=9579
From the above:
Northern Light
Superstar
This one is the subject of a Confidential Request for Direction Report heading to next week's City Council meeting.
Northern Light
Superstar
I missed the results of the above report, at the time, but we now see that a settlement on the OPA was arrived at, and approved by Council, which has resulted in, a new ZBA, SPA and plan of Subdivision in the AIC.
T-F continues to be part of the architectural team here; Teeple and SuperKul are also on-board.
For the title, note that the Maximum height is now 48s
app.toronto.ca
@interchange42 will want to make note of the plan of subdivision and the different sets of architects.
I will treat this as one Masterplan first, then, as clear will create one post for each new parcel.
As you can all see above, the Masterplan actually has all 3 Arch. firms listed on it; it also has a slew of renders, below, which do not identify which building is which/siting (rather annoying) or give credit to any particular firm, hopefully that will change when we get to block-specific plans.
Items from the Planning Rationale Report follow:
Just for context, this is the opening page of said report, in its entirety:
The descriptions for each block are simply too long to fit in one post, so I will save those for the breakdown posts for each block. But below are the phasing plan, and stats for the site:
T-F continues to be part of the architectural team here; Teeple and SuperKul are also on-board.
For the title, note that the Maximum height is now 48s
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app.toronto.ca
@interchange42 will want to make note of the plan of subdivision and the different sets of architects.
I will treat this as one Masterplan first, then, as clear will create one post for each new parcel.
As you can all see above, the Masterplan actually has all 3 Arch. firms listed on it; it also has a slew of renders, below, which do not identify which building is which/siting (rather annoying) or give credit to any particular firm, hopefully that will change when we get to block-specific plans.
Items from the Planning Rationale Report follow:
Just for context, this is the opening page of said report, in its entirety:
The descriptions for each block are simply too long to fit in one post, so I will save those for the breakdown posts for each block. But below are the phasing plan, and stats for the site:
Northern Light
Superstar
There are a slew of Arch. files; The order of the posts will follow the order of the files, which may not make any particular sense.
This first one is ID'd as Block B4
Architect shows as Turner Fleischer
This first one is ID'd as Block B4
Architect shows as Turner Fleischer