Toronto Marlee Condos | 84.9m | 24s | Spotlight Development | RAW Design

[ferusian]

782 MARLEE AVE
Ward 8: Eglinton-Lawrence

Development Applications

Project description:

Official Plan and Zoning by-law amendment application to facilitate the redevelopment of the site for a 12-storey residential building containing 301 dwelling units, and having a residential gross floor area of 19,085 square metres.

The development site consists of five detached single-family houses:

774-776 Marlee Ave

778-782 Marlee Ave

 

[Northern Light]

Site is just south of Lawrence, west side:

One pretty nice front yard tree at 774:

Site Size ~3600m2 /39000ft2 - more than decent sized............ still

I must confess, when I look at this site, I see so much more potential in it with a few more properties assembled.

We all understand real-world reasons why that may not occur; but it can be quite striking when you understand why that may strand a lot of potential ROI for this developer/investor and others in the future.

There is a parking lot for the low-rise apartment building at the rear of these Marlee homes, the value of which can only be really unlocked in conjunction w/the adjacent properties.

That would require both the apartment and homes further south to 768 to be acquired.

The parking lot would add ~20M of depth to the Marlee lots.

Its also (just the section behind these homes) a further 1600M2 or ~17000ft2 ; a site that will be very difficult to utilize in the future if the Marlee-fronting properties are developed on a free-standing basis.

 

[AlbertC]

Marlee Condos - Spotlight

www.spotlightdevelopment.com

Marlee Condos​

Status: Under Development
Location: 774-782 Marlee Ave, North York
Project Type: Mixed-Use
Storeys: 12
Suites: 301

The proposal is for an infill tiered development consisting of a 12 storey condo with approximately 250 residential units. Development in partnership with Urban Capital.

 

[Undead]

Solid infill, I quite like this. Needs some work at grade level.

 

[Amare]

I agree the grade level needs a bit of work/improvement, but overall this is a very solid proposal. I wouldnt mind a slight height trim down to something like 9-10 stories as this is fronting Marlee (not Lawrence), but I wont cry over that.

 

[Northern Light]

*Docs are Up*

Apparently @AlbertC was the only one who knew where the renders were and didn't tell either the architects or the planners who failed to include any in the application.

Architect is RAW

From the Planning Report:

at 301 units, the proposed parking ratio is: 0.59

 

[Northern Light]

Site Plan Approval Filed:

Application Details

app.toronto.ca

 

[Northern Light]

Preliminary Report on this one goes to the next meeting of NYCC:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/ny/bgrd/backgroundfile-225359.pdf

The City is going to give this one a hard time.

The vibe in the report isn't scathing, nor is it neutral..........

Regulars here will know, that Preliminary Reports typically consist of a range of pro-forma concerns about massing or section 37 agreements etc etc.

But what's atypical is to see this preceding said list:

Following that are many of the usual pro-forma concerns........but there are some added ones.

Staff note (paraphrase); the site is currently yellow belt.

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I confess to certain sympathy for this next one, it even aligns with a post of mine above:

 

[Undead]

Appropriateness of a tall building? 12s is tall? More like the appropriateness of detached houses within a short walk of a subway station.

 

[innsertnamehere]

to the city anything taller than the width of the right of way (generally 20-27m) is a tall building. So anything over 6-8 storeys in most of the city.

 

[artyboy123]

New renderings are updated in the database! There are some minor changes in the project information. The total unit count remains the same at 301 units. The total building height increased from 40.68m to 43.23m. The total building count stays the same at 12 storeys. Finally, the total parking spaces were reduced from 180 to 159 parking spaces.

The renderings are taken from the architectural plan via Site Plan Approval:

 

[Northern Light]

This one will be before Council next week.

Looks like a settlement offer, but docs are confidential at this time.

OLT hearing is scheduled for January.

Agenda Item History 2023.CC13.14

Agenda Item History 2023.CC13.14

secure.toronto.ca

 

[interchange42]

This one will be before Council next week.

Looks like a settlement offer, but docs are confidential at this time.

OLT hearing is scheduled for January.

Agenda Item History 2023.CC13.14

Agenda Item History 2023.CC13.14

secure.toronto.ca

We missed an entire stage of this one, which was resubmitted to the City back at the end of June last year. At that point, spotlight resubmitted this as a 28-storey, 370-unit, point-tower-on-a-podium condo with 789 sq m tower floor-plates, instead of as the 12-storey, 301-unit terraced mid-rise it was before (but first proposed with 250 larger suites).

The 12-storey version was appealed to the OLT, but the appeal was carried over to the 28-storey version, which the City and Spotlight continued to negotiate on in the meantime.The settlement — approved at Council in December — is for a 24-storey, 321-unit point-tower-on-a-podium building where the point tower now adheres to the City's 750 sq m floor-plates.

A hearing to ratify the settlement is scheduled for January 22... or a week from today!

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[Northern Light]

The detailed Settlement offer noted by @interchange42 above is now public (obviously) and I will link to it and post it below:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/cc/bgrd/backgroundfile-241319.pdf

There are a number of additional 'technical' items as well.

 

[christiesplits]

Quite familiar with the area. I'm happy to see some more density in the area, a stone's throw from a subway stop. Unfortunately, the area has really bad car traffic and Lawrence is absolutely brutal for pedestrians as they dodge cars coming off the Allen.