I'm about a kilometre from this by road, and have been wondering how long it might be before we started to see such proposals in the area. There are (depending up how you count them—some are conjoined) 76 buildings of this type in the hilly Stonegate area, 90% of them four storeys tall. Too small to be tower-in-the-park type buildings, just about all of them with unused lawn space and surface parking, but few of them with enough underused space in spots where infill buildings could go easily. As ownership is mostly unconsolidated, it would take some assembly of sites to make significant intensification tenable. If going up with modest additions is the easiest way to intensify here, this won't be the last similar application in the area. We joke a lot about parking requirements in this city, but I do wonder, as most building lots here are full and newer residents buy permits from the City to park overnight on the streets (the curbsides are pretty much full), how that will be dealt with for expansions here.
The buildings in the area have NO recreation facilities, having been built before amenities were a thing, and I wonder if any expansion in this area should be required to feed a fund to build a local recreation centre. We need one. (There should have been a third floor on the commercial building at Backyard Neighbourhood Condos where a local YMCA could have been located.)
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