10-25-2021, 09:06 PM
From my quick scan of the documents, here are few take aways:
- This development does not include the small "Victoria Apartment" building nor the house between it and the old dry cleaning building further along Victoria St. The Victoria Apartment building is a listed building
- There are some ground floor townhouse type units since there was a row of units labeled "yard"
- 1150 are projected: 734 one bedroom; 416 two bedroom units; 0 three bedroom units
- no mention of affordable housing provisions or payments to offset request for variances (I am willing to be corrected on this one if I missed it in my skim)
- The most uncomfortable spot to stand in the winter will be waiting for the lights to change at Park and Victoria
- The traffic analysis does not provide much information about the impact of additional pedestrian traffic on the surrounding sidewalks (this is likely a systemic issue with all traffic studies that are more focused on car and truck traffic). If the pedestrians are expected to walk the 550m from the development to the LRT stop, what's the sidewalk and cycling infrastructure like along the route?
- The Victoria & Park intersection is already a challenge to navigate with a car during peak periods. I'm not sure that it's going to improve with this much additional traffic
- The buildings are going to cast a pretty brutal shadow through the Victoria Park neighbourhood during the winter months with some houses losing between 2-3 hours of afternoon sunlight
- 51 trees are to be removed from the site
- This development does not include the small "Victoria Apartment" building nor the house between it and the old dry cleaning building further along Victoria St. The Victoria Apartment building is a listed building
- There are some ground floor townhouse type units since there was a row of units labeled "yard"
- 1150 are projected: 734 one bedroom; 416 two bedroom units; 0 three bedroom units
- no mention of affordable housing provisions or payments to offset request for variances (I am willing to be corrected on this one if I missed it in my skim)
- The most uncomfortable spot to stand in the winter will be waiting for the lights to change at Park and Victoria
- The traffic analysis does not provide much information about the impact of additional pedestrian traffic on the surrounding sidewalks (this is likely a systemic issue with all traffic studies that are more focused on car and truck traffic). If the pedestrians are expected to walk the 550m from the development to the LRT stop, what's the sidewalk and cycling infrastructure like along the route?
- The Victoria & Park intersection is already a challenge to navigate with a car during peak periods. I'm not sure that it's going to improve with this much additional traffic
- The buildings are going to cast a pretty brutal shadow through the Victoria Park neighbourhood during the winter months with some houses losing between 2-3 hours of afternoon sunlight
- 51 trees are to be removed from the site