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Further intensification in the Sheppard East & Bayview area, a couple blocks east of the intersection:




589 SHEPPARD AVE E
Ward 17: Don Valley North

Official Plan and Zoning By Law Amendment application that proposes to build a new 14 storey mixed use building, with retail and residential uses. The development will have GFA of 15,096 square metres, an FSI of 5.01 times the lot area. The relocation of the Thomas Clark House (heritage building) to the northwest corner of the development site is also proposed.


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Where is the lot located on the map. I don't see the heritage building in the corner of this intersection on Google Earth ?
 
cd concept said:
Where is the lot located on the map. I don't see the heritage building in the corner of this intersection on Google Earth ?
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The heritage house is located mid-block along Barberry Place, so they are proposing to move it to the corner.

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Undead said:
What a bad way to integrate the heritage property, though.
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Huh really? For me this is an unusually thoughtful effort to integrate heritage. It's fully retained, brought front and centre to meet the street, and kept fully independent of the new building whose massing sweeps around it in deference, resulting in a more interesting form for both. Sure beats facadism anyway.
 
soufflot said:
Huh really? For me this is an unusually thoughtful effort to integrate heritage. It's fully retained, brought front and centre to meet the street, and kept fully independent of the new building whose massing sweeps around it in deference, resulting in a more interesting form for both. Sure beats facadism anyway.
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I think it sticks out too much this way.
 
More info on the house that is being moved to the corner:

www.seetorontonow.com

Don Valley North | Destination Toronto

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Thomas Clarke House
9 Barberry Place
*Note: Private property. Please observe the house from the street only. This heritage designated house, dating back to 1855, was built by Thomas Clark, an early European settler of the area who purchased much of the land nearby in the 1840s. Much of the lumber used to construct the house was white pine, which was cut from the property surrounding it. The home is the only structure that remains from the area’s pioneer past.
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Photo:

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is this considered as a mid-rise building? how a 14 stories building is allowed on the sheppard ave ?


"Mid-rise buildings may contain a single use like an office or residential apartment but they usually contain a mix of uses which may include retail, office, community service, and residential all in the same building. The height of a mid-rise building varies from street to street, as we define mid-rises as buildings that are no taller than the width of their adjacent street right-of-way (the width of the publicly owned portion of the street). In Toronto, on the narrower 20 metre wide streets in the downtown, a mid-rise is 5 or 6 stories high. On the wider arterial streets outside of the Downtown, a mid-rise may be taller up to a maximum of 11 storeys on the widest Avenues. Mid-rises typically are designed with step-backs or terraces at upper levels to make them appear lower in height from the street, and to allow sunlight and sky views at the sidewalk."
reference: https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...delines/design-guidelines/mid-rise-buildings/

Will this building be attached to the 591 sheppard ave :eek:?

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filmzone47 said:
is this considered as a mid-rise building? how a 14 stories building is allowed on the sheppard ave ?


"Mid-rise buildings may contain a single use like an office or residential apartment but they usually contain a mix of uses which may include retail, office, community service, and residential all in the same building. The height of a mid-rise building varies from street to street, as we define mid-rises as buildings that are no taller than the width of their adjacent street right-of-way (the width of the publicly owned portion of the street). In Toronto, on the narrower 20 metre wide streets in the downtown, a mid-rise is 5 or 6 stories high. On the wider arterial streets outside of the Downtown, a mid-rise may be taller up to a maximum of 11 storeys on the widest Avenues. Mid-rises typically are designed with step-backs or terraces at upper levels to make them appear lower in height from the street, and to allow sunlight and sky views at the sidewalk."
reference: https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...delines/design-guidelines/mid-rise-buildings/

Will this building be attached to the 591 sheppard ave :eek:?

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You're complaining about a 14 storey building on Sheppard? Seriously??
 
Towered said:
You're complaining about a 14 storey building on Sheppard? Seriously??
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If you like to live in a building that is that close to another building, and have no sunlights across the whole year. sure thing :)

However, I would like to have some sunshine, my privacy.
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^And that is what you can afford. And it won’t be forever as your needs will change.
 
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