Dan416
Senior Member
I say if they can sell the units to reach the heights they've chosen, then go for it.
realistically ... how much more tappering UP can a builder do if this site on the edge of MCC is already proposing 38 storeys ?? on that basis I think this proposal may be too tall for its location ~
With a 56 storey building a few blocks up the street, I don't see why not. By the time 2020 rolls around, 56 storeys might be the new 30 storeys in Mississauga.
you'll just have to realise there's 1+2 storey buildings to the north + west of this site 28+38 storeys doesn't exactly provide a 'transition' a scale + height to 1+2 storey buildings (in urban design terms)
you'll just have to realise there's 1+2 storey buildings to the north + west of this site 28+38 storeys doesn't exactly provide a 'transition' a scale + height to 1+2 storey buildings (in urban design terms)
Yes, but the plan for the area has changed, and someday so will those houses across the street.
you do realize that those houses on the north side of Burnhamthorpe were never planned to be a part of the Mississauga City Centre Secondary Plan right?
anything that is outside the MCC boundary is not identified as a Urban Centre in the Growth Plan, hence are not sites intended for intensification
Planning isn't something that remains static. The Official Plan gets reviewed every 5 years, and a completely new plan is created every 20 years. The city can easily expand the boundary of MCC if it wanted to.
Anything outside the MCC boundary will become an area in transition as MCC continues to grow. Property value will go up, and the land will be worth too much to support single family homes. I can see developers going after rows of homes in the future in order to build higher density.
I was driving east along Burnhamthorpe yesterday and was thinking this very thing. There is enough land along the north side of Burnhamthorpe to actually put a whole row of homes in - likely 80' or more - so the ideal thing would be to start buying up the homes that back onto this tract and build low rise or stacked townhomes all the way down the north side of Burnhamthorpe, from Central Parkway Mall all the way to Applewood Creek.I was talking to councilor Frank Dale after the meeting about the 2 empty gas lots at Cawthra and Burnhamthorpe and saying we don't need anymore commercial there. He has made a recommendation to the owner of the townhouses on the south-west corner about buy the land and then redevelop it by tear the townhouses down and building something better and taller there.
The north-west corner is another issue as they are single large home. If someone buys that lot as well the houses along Burnhamthorpe, you can put 5-6 story building there facing the street.
See rehabilitating Mississauga is possible
Personally I think those estimates of an ultimate population of 700,000ish to be conservative. I think Mississauga alone could support 1,000,000 eventually if we keep intensifying land use on our "avenues" (to knick a Toronto term).
How about 1.4 m?? If we do it well, 1.9m
The City is using 730,000 now
Honestly, with all the unreported basement apartments, I wouldn't be surprised if Mississauga was already in the upper 700s, rather than the 730,000 that was recorded in the last census.See rehabilitating Mississauga is possible
Personally I think those estimates of an ultimate population of 700,000ish to be conservative. I think Mississauga alone could support 1,000,000 eventually if we keep intensifying land use on our "avenues" (to knick a Toronto term).