Dredging up a previous post about this project, the proposal for the development on North Dairy opposite Sears (RIP) is going back to council on Monday. The design has been revised to, among other things, go below grade for parking and to add more capacity. Same height (four floors), more units (62 vs 56).
1586, 1588, 1592 North Dairy Rd. and 3200 Wordsworth St.
Coun. Judy Brownoff said the project deserves a full public hearing because of the changes that the applicants had made to the earlier version of their proposal. It did not get past this stage in December 2017 after council had told the applicant to conduct additional community consultations.
Concerned residents had opposed the initial version on grounds of its height, massing and parking, and councillors once again heard several complaints about the height and the lack of parking. But the revised proposal did address one of the central concerns – the nature of parking, as well as other design elements.
While the initial application featured surface parking, the revised proposal includes underground parking. The ratio of parking spots per unit also rose, as did the number of stalls for bicycles and other types of vehicles, such as mopeds and motorized scooters. Staff and the applicants will also enter discussions about including a car-share service in the application to ameliorate public concerns about parking.
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Citing various current and future public infrastructure, [Coun] Murdock said the location represents an ideal location for multi-family housing. “I don’t want to see this get hung up on the parking,” he said.
Coun. Colin Plant said this proposal highlights the tensions between larger planning goals, and local issues.
“This is the rubber hitting the road on the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan versus local neighbourhoods, because the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan calls exactly for this,” he said. “It even suggests four storeys.”