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Originally Posted by Wishblade
• Commercial uses are only permitted at or below grade.
• Residential uses are limited to houses containing a maximum of four dwelling units
and townhouses.
• The maximum height of buildings is 45 feet.
Further to the Municipal Planning Strategy:
• There are development agreement provisions which allow Council to consider
buildings that are greater than 45 feet in height in the ResidentialCommercial
Mix
District, but only upon the “Clyde Street Parking Lots.”
• There are planning policies that cite a concern with the height of buildings facing
Victoria Park and the Public Gardens, which results in height controls within the C2D
Zone. Such concerns are relevant to this application as the site directly faces Victoria
Park.
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Yikes! I was afraid of something like that. Not to be a pessimist, but I suspect this one is dead before it starts. Especially with that bit about Victoria Park and Public Gardens... The Heritage Nazis will be salivating over this. In the very least it will get bogged down in years of appeals, so don't expect anything until 2011 or so.
As for the Martello and Paramount buildings, they fell into the same strange gray area that the so-called "triangle lands" and Trademart near Cogswell. They all received council approval for their respective developments in the 1980's. They've just been sitting on the shelf for those many years, waiting for the developer to submit detailed plans and break ground. This is an oddly run city.