The documents haven't been posted for this site yet, the ZBA/OPA only became public this afternoon. Once the documents are public I will add the links to the thread.
The site spans 146 and 152 Lancaster St N, as well as 5 Hill St, it is the existing site of the Hogg Concrete plant and Transit Petroleum depot on Lancaster between Guelph and Wellington St.
The developer is Hogg themselves, with GSP Group doing the planning, they likely have a partner on this if it is anything more then a zone and flip. They also own the property at Charles and Sydney which has this development concept (nothing formally submitted yet): Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46 fl | Proposed.
They're intending for the site to have 9 buildings for a total of 2612 residential units, until the plans are posted there is no breakdown. The development is proposing a total of 264 sqm of commercial space. Between this site and the Vic Common site it is a significant amount of potential units with next to no commercial. The site is proposing 2403 parking spaces.
They are requesting to change the site from industrial to Res 7 in 2019-051 with the following site specific provisions: FSR of 6.1 (slightly lower than Vive and Corley development at 550 Lancaster site), maximum building height of 120.4 metres (35 floors roughly), and to reduce the outdoor amenity requirement to 8650 sqm.
Here's the site:
The site isn't particularly well connected with transit, you have the 6 running along Lancaster and then the 34 along Wellington so it isn't the most connected but with the 550 Lancaster site eventually getting developed it isn't the most absurd thing to think there will be some better transit eventually.
In terms of OP the current OP has it as industrial, there will be members of council who will dislike this change significantly. The neighbourhood came out swinging against the Vic Common site so I'd expect a similar situation here, however with the surrounding lands half being parkland and industrial it may have a different outcome. The only thing potentially working in the sites favor is that Kitchener 2051 has this outside of an employment area, so the city wouldn't be going against their future policy on not removing employment areas. However with 2051 not even draft approved those boundaries could change and hence the city can't use that justification, so it will be interesting to see how GSP frames this. Regardless the Lancaster corridor is expected to have some densification based on all 3 of the draft concepts the city has made public so far. The final 2051 draft will likely be a combination of all of them (especially with the incorporation of ROPA 6).
Document Link:sUPPORTING dOCUMENTS
The site spans 146 and 152 Lancaster St N, as well as 5 Hill St, it is the existing site of the Hogg Concrete plant and Transit Petroleum depot on Lancaster between Guelph and Wellington St.
The developer is Hogg themselves, with GSP Group doing the planning, they likely have a partner on this if it is anything more then a zone and flip. They also own the property at Charles and Sydney which has this development concept (nothing formally submitted yet): Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46 fl | Proposed.
They're intending for the site to have 9 buildings for a total of 2612 residential units, until the plans are posted there is no breakdown. The development is proposing a total of 264 sqm of commercial space. Between this site and the Vic Common site it is a significant amount of potential units with next to no commercial. The site is proposing 2403 parking spaces.
They are requesting to change the site from industrial to Res 7 in 2019-051 with the following site specific provisions: FSR of 6.1 (slightly lower than Vive and Corley development at 550 Lancaster site), maximum building height of 120.4 metres (35 floors roughly), and to reduce the outdoor amenity requirement to 8650 sqm.
Here's the site:
The site isn't particularly well connected with transit, you have the 6 running along Lancaster and then the 34 along Wellington so it isn't the most connected but with the 550 Lancaster site eventually getting developed it isn't the most absurd thing to think there will be some better transit eventually.
In terms of OP the current OP has it as industrial, there will be members of council who will dislike this change significantly. The neighbourhood came out swinging against the Vic Common site so I'd expect a similar situation here, however with the surrounding lands half being parkland and industrial it may have a different outcome. The only thing potentially working in the sites favor is that Kitchener 2051 has this outside of an employment area, so the city wouldn't be going against their future policy on not removing employment areas. However with 2051 not even draft approved those boundaries could change and hence the city can't use that justification, so it will be interesting to see how GSP frames this. Regardless the Lancaster corridor is expected to have some densification based on all 3 of the draft concepts the city has made public so far. The final 2051 draft will likely be a combination of all of them (especially with the incorporation of ROPA 6).
Document Link:sUPPORTING dOCUMENTS
