The proposed building renovation of the Calvary Pentecostal Church at 1681 Cyrville Rd. will be constructed under the zoning restriction of 18 metres high. The building will be setback from the streets with the required frontage of the zoning for the area up to and including the 2nd and 3rd floors. The building will be a distinguishable contemporary design that is unique but not foreign to the neighbouring buildings irrespective of use and occupancy.
The overall building footprint will now be approximately 22,000 sq.ft. instead of the previous 6,900 sq.ft. and the overall gross area will be approximately 37,000 sq.ft. The resulting site development will be as shown with the new auditorium adjacent to Cyrville Rd. The main entry of the building links between the old and the new structures. The upper floors above the link will accommodate additional programming for shared use space.
What a sad waste of Cyrville Road frontage, 75% of it is parking lot. I've always thought that Cyrville had the potential to develop into something interesting, as it has good elements like a rapid transit station, ramp-free crossings of freeways that making it a good bike route and community connector, and even a village-y possibilities around the old stone church closer to St-Laurent. This building is terrible with its door-less facade to the street and parking lots flanking both sides.
^ This lot is all the way on the other end of Cyrville from the LRT station; about a 20 minute walk, so beyond the range of TOD.
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^ This lot is all the way on the other end of Cyrville from the LRT station; about a 20 minute walk, so beyond the range of TOD.
I know that, I cycle out that way regularly since it's one of the rare "safe" routes to cross the 417 by bike. I still think the entire length of Cyrville is main-streetable if it were zoned as such. All it needs is the gradual replacement of the strip malls with higher density buildings with street oriented retail.
I know that, I cycle out that way regularly since it's one of the rare "safe" routes to cross the 417 by bike. I still think the entire length of Cyrville is main-streetable if it were zoned as such. All it needs is the gradual replacement of the strip malls with higher density buildings with street oriented retail.
I find crossing the highway on Cyrville terrifying! There is no path on the bridge so you are elbows to traffic.
Does anyone else ever wonder if someone misspelled Cavalry when they started this church but it was too late to change it?
It's got sidewalks on both sides and an insane amount of buffer space between the sidewalks and the traffic lanes... my guess is because the bridge was designed to accommodate a 4-laning of the road in the future.
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"It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves." - Friedrich Hayek
It still beats cycling on St-Laurent, Innes or Blair to get to the other side of the highway. A MUP was also recently built along a portion of the road and shoulders widened/added around Startop.
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"It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves." - Friedrich Hayek
Wow, that thing is new!? Walked by it last summer. Wife thought it was an old, crappy arena when she first spotted it. I thought it was an industrial building recently "renovated" into a church.
Wow, that thing is new!? Walked by it last summer. Wife thought it was an old, crappy arena when she first spotted it. I thought it was an industrial building recently "renovated" into a church.
I think they succeeded in making this the ugliest church in the city! Would have been much nicer to use brick instead of the metal cladding.
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