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Are we talking about the same Sorauren?? The one with the century-old abandoned linseed factory? You know, the one that predates many of the houses on Sorauren and is much larger? How about the restored loft building to the south? You are talking about a historically mixed use street that has several former industrial properties that back onto rail tracks. This isn't a "residential [only] street" and trying to fight a midrise condo planned for an industrial lot just because "there are houses nearby" has a ring of NIMBYism to it, the difference being, this isn't your backyard.
 
this is exactly the type of mid rise developments that the City should be fast tracking through the planning process. it's well designed architectural, relatively small (145 units) on the fringe of a great neighbourhood, buffering the neighbourhood from the industrial areas and the railway, close to transit, and parks. look what it is replacing: http://goo.gl/maps/sWtpA
Views? Traffic? Density? welcome to a growing city.
 
hawc said:
You're talking about density on a residential street. There doesn't need to be this level of density where it's just nice two story homes and lawns everywhere and then boom two buildings within 20 feet of each other. It's ridiculous. I hope it doesn't get approved in it's current form. And hey if it does, I hope they enjoy the new Airport Express noisily zooming behind them shaking the building every 12 minutes. You'd have to be crazy to buy right beside these tracks. It's about to become a train expressway.
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The same thing happened on Carlaw ave in the east end and the neighbourhood did not collapse.
 
hawc said:
You're talking about density on a residential street. There doesn't need to be this level of density where it's just nice two story homes and lawns everywhere and then boom two buildings within 20 feet of each other. It's ridiculous. I hope it doesn't get approved in it's current form. And hey if it does, I hope they enjoy the new Airport Express noisily zooming behind them shaking the building every 12 minutes. You'd have to be crazy to buy right beside these tracks. It's about to become a train expressway.
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That's why I bought at the front of the building. :cool:
Plus, it can't be any worse than living beside the feeder tracks to Bologna Centrale in Italy.
And I sleep with ear plugs.
 
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hawc said:
And hey if it does, I hope they enjoy the new Airport Express noisily zooming behind them shaking the building every 12 minutes. You'd have to be crazy to buy right beside these tracks. It's about to become a train expressway.
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A total of eighteen (maximum) high efficiency self-propelled (i.e. small self contained engines, no locomotives) rail diesel cars an hour. The Airport Express trains consist of two and three car combinations, with twenty minute departures. Three trains per hour each direction, maximum of eighteen cars - if all trains are three cars, no two car trains in the mix. The number of departures is limited by the single track section at the airport - requiring one train to come in, unload, load up, and get back out, before the next train arrives. I believe there is also only one platform at the Union Station end.

Without the weight and noise of the large locomotive engines, the impact of the Airport Express trains will be a fraction of the existing Go train service.

This continues to be the most over-hyped issue in the GTA - so many people ranting about things of which they have little to no knowledge.....
 
15 minute service levels, BTW. it is also double tracked into the airport, but you are correct in saying that there is only a single platform at Union. Really it is 8 trains an hour, or one every 7.5 minutes. I would think of their emissions to be more on the equivalent of a Big Rig Truck rather than a full sized GO train though.
 
innsertnamehere said:
15 minute service levels, BTW. it is also double tracked into the airport, but you are correct in saying that there is only a single platform at Union. Really it is 8 trains an hour, or one every 7.5 minutes. I would think of their emissions to be more on the equivalent of a Big Rig Truck rather than a full sized GO train though.
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According to the Metrolinx representative I spoke with less than two weeks ago, service was to be every 20 minutes, three departures an hour in each direction. Perhaps ultimately an increase in frequency to every 15 minutes is anticipated, but not what is planned initially. Regarding the Pearson end - I may be wrong - what struck me the last time I was on Airport Road was the construction appeared to be single track, although that could have been just the stage it was at, from where I was seeing it.
 
This is a great project and a great design. City should be thankful for quality developers that are design focused. This will breathe more life into an already bustling community, and it is a much more affordable product when compared to single family homes. I hope the developer will be contributing further fees toward community improvements. This is a big win for Ronscesvalles.
 
The City is not supporting this project and going the OMB to fight the developer. It seems to me that this is exactly the type of mid-rise project the City should be supporting. Jennifer Keesmaat can't stop talking about how much she supports mid-rise buildings close to transit and how she whats to make it easier for developers to move these buildings through the development process. but it seems like the Perks' political agenda is driving the bus here... I wonder how much money the community will lose with no Section 37 monies coming when the City/Perks looses at the Board.
 
argus said:
Does sound odd. What are the grounds for the city rejecting it?
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Based on the news, I would say the main reason is: Gord Perks. It is unbelievable that our ward and its residents, ultimately, are held hostage by this character (same one who came up with the moratorium on West Queen West new restaurants and bars). Perks is an unabashed left wing socialist/communist that opposes any gentrification forces. It seems like his ideology and his dislike of the market economy always get in the way of common sense in his little militant brain.
By the way, I think this is nicely designed building, and the project would benefit the community.
 
Pfloyd said:
Based on the news, I would say the main reason is: Gord Perks. It is unbelievable that our ward and its residents, ultimately, are held hostage by this character (same one who came up with the moratorium on West Queen West new restaurants and bars). Perks is an unabashed left wing socialist/communist that opposes any gentrification forces. It seems like his ideology and his dislike of the market economy always get in the way of common sense in his little militant brain.
By the way, I think this is nicely designed building, and the project would benefit the community.
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Are you sure you are being hard enough on him? I think you could stand to be a little stronger in your opposition to Perks, you feel really wishy-washy about him here./s
 
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