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65 MC CORMACK ST
Ward 5: York South-Weston

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Project description:
Proposed development of 10 & 12 storey buildings containing 263 units which will include approximately 21,465 square metres of gross floor area, comprised of approximately 19,209 square metres of residential space, 2,256 square metres of non-residential space.
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This proposal includes 65 McCormack St (a detached single-family house), 73 McCormack St (a single-story commercial building),

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75 McCormack St and 81 McCormack (two single-storey commerical buildings)

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Aerial Pic for the above:


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Site Size: 6400m2/69000ft2

Notes: Site has residential across the street, but employment/light industrial to the east and west. The precedent value of conversion here would likely cause the entire street to flip uses in this area, a distance of roughly 600M

Further note, current/on-going uses of site and neighbours appears to be heavily automotive amongst other uses. Remediation should be anticipated as a potential issue here.
 
The lone house marooned on a commercial block is a fascinating oddity. Its circa 1920s architecture is more impressive than most of the houses on the surrounding streets.

It must have an interesting history. Perhaps a distinguished local lived there back when the surrounding land was farmland? Alternatively, a builder wanted to build an upscale subdivision of houses like that one but it failed because of the Great Depression?

It would be great if it could somehow be incorporated into the redevelopment project. This area used to be ignored by urbanists, but it's relatively walkable and has a lot of interesting quirks.
 
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Hopefully the plan here will treat the Lavender Creek ravine to the south well. There's already what the City considers to be a "Major Multi-Use Trail" in it, as one can see on the pic that @Northern Light posted. Not sure if that's necessarily paved or not… but this and other redevelopments along that side of McCormack should link to it, and if 10% of the site is wanted by the City as park space, maybe they should start it off here with a strip linking the ravine to McCormack.

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interchange42 said:
Hopefully the plan here will treat the Lavender Creek ravine to the south well. There's already what the City considers to be a "Major Multi-Use Trail" in it, as one can see on the pic that @Northern Light posted. Not sure if that's necessarily paved or not… but this and other redevelopments along that side of McCormack should link to it, and if 10% of the site is wanted by the City as park space, maybe they should start it off here with a strip linking the ravine to McCormack.

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Wasn't sure myself offhand..........but looked; trail is paved, though by the looks of it, not very recently:

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Above: View of the Trail from Gunns Road via Streetview

Below: The Trail at Symes Road:

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Below: Trail looking west, parallel to McCormack: (McCormack is on the extreme right out of the picture, but the properties directly ahead, right of the hydro pylons are addressed to that street)

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And so it begins.

It's a nice little pocket that I got to know when some friends moved in. It is an area in transition, and the industrial is incongruous with the very residential neighbourhood. Not that some messy urbanism is a bad thing, but it also would not be a loss for much of the industrial strip to go mixed-use or residential.

The strip of Weston along here also could use an upgrade.

There are some nice parks, interesting businesses in the Symes area to the south, the potential to better connect a number of trails, and to become a more walkable and transit-oriented area as it is only a short bike ride (or moderate walk) to the future Black Creek station of the Crosstown, AND the future GO station at St. Clair.
 
This one is the subject of an Appeals Report to the next meeting of EYCC.


Applicant appealed in Dec '23, the first CMC is scheduled for May 1st, 2024.

There a few issues here, but two stand out.........the first one is that the proposal which backs onto Lavender Creek is simply too close to it, the TRCA deems the proposal to be encroaching into into the no-go zone.

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Additionally, the City seems to be willing to go for the height here, but not the massing. While there is now flexibility on the angular plane, the principle still holds that a site needs to transition down when next to much lower rise buildings, particularly SFH.

Staff are not satisfied in that respect here.

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