Toronto 2700 Dufferin Street | 89.15m | 25s | State Building Group | WZMH
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DavidCapizzano
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Weird and anti urban!
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Undead
Senior Member
This is State, nothing is happening here...
Northern Light
Superstar
Just to provide context, this is the extant complex:
Looking south along Dufferin from the site:
Context - Transportation
The Beltline Trail is just over 200m to the south
Eglinton and the one day Crosstown (maybe) - just over 600M from the southern tip of the site. That last bit is consequential because this is a large site. Dufferin/Eglinton is almost exactly 1km away from the north west corner of this site.
Lawrence is no less than 1.2km from the site.
Glencairn Station is ~1.4km away.
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Comments, not sure about converting from employment here; but if this were to be approved in principle it should not be done as proposed. It does have an anti-urban vibe. I'm not utterly opposed to Parks on main streets, but they would need to be large enough that people using the park can be well back from the road, and shielded a by vegetation and/or topography. But this park is too small for that and by setting the residential buildings far back from the road, you make anyone's walk to the bus stop longer, and offer no main street retail. Poorly conceived
Offsite Parkland: could be used to expand the existing Glen Long Park to the north, or to create a green space linking the Beltline to Roselawn. .
Looking south along Dufferin from the site:
Context - Transportation
The Beltline Trail is just over 200m to the south
Eglinton and the one day Crosstown (maybe) - just over 600M from the southern tip of the site. That last bit is consequential because this is a large site. Dufferin/Eglinton is almost exactly 1km away from the north west corner of this site.
Lawrence is no less than 1.2km from the site.
Glencairn Station is ~1.4km away.
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Comments, not sure about converting from employment here; but if this were to be approved in principle it should not be done as proposed. It does have an anti-urban vibe. I'm not utterly opposed to Parks on main streets, but they would need to be large enough that people using the park can be well back from the road, and shielded a by vegetation and/or topography. But this park is too small for that and by setting the residential buildings far back from the road, you make anyone's walk to the bus stop longer, and offer no main street retail. Poorly conceived
Offsite Parkland: could be used to expand the existing Glen Long Park to the north, or to create a green space linking the Beltline to Roselawn. .
junctionist
Senior Member
This masterplan seems ill-conceived. Why not put the commercial-only buildings along the main street to make Dufferin pedestrian friendly, to create an attractive street wall, and to shelter the proposed mini-neighbourhood (including the proposed park) from the traffic noise on Dufferin?
Why even have commercial-only buildings? Not only should they be built along the main street, but they should also have apartments on top.
Why even have commercial-only buildings? Not only should they be built along the main street, but they should also have apartments on top.
Northern Light
Superstar
The reasons given are two-fold.
1) To replace the commercial space that would be lost here.
2) To buffer the new residential community from the Employment/Industrial uses further west from Dufferin.
I'm not making a case either way here, just explaining the rationale.
junctionist
Senior Member
I really appreciate that because I suspected that there was some rationale based on the existing uses when I wrote my comments. I still think that if you're creating a project out of multiple properties, you should have the flexibility to optimize the locations of the different uses in a way that makes for the highest-quality project.
mferna
Active Member
New article featuring this development, read it here: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/0...unity-proposed-dufferin-and-castlefield.58967