I know it's a seniors res. but I like it - if it's anything like the renderings I think it will have some character
__________________ Number of buildings listed on SSPs Diagram section? 191
Number of people living in the cities metro area? 496,900
Knowing London has a better looking skyline than that of any other city our size? PRICELESS
The location is excellent. Next to transit, shopping, medical services. Next steps would be demolition permits for existing buildings. Don't see any reason for city hall delays on approving this project immediately.
The roofline is out of the 80's?? It looks like the same generic roofline you'd see on a project from the early to mid 2000's. Unless you mean the roofline is nod to PO-MO-esque towers, I got no clue what you're laying down.
This is good to see as for profit retirement homes can help take some of the pressure off. But Ontario is still in need of 10,000 additional Long Term Care beds to deal with the baby boomers who will be too old and frail to be accepted to live in a Seniors Retirement home. If a 300 bed LTC home were to open today in London it would be immediately filled. This would be the story in every major city in the province. The numbers of seniors who are clogging up our hospitals could be better cared for in LTC and at a fraction of the cost. Any new home built must have a Dementia/Alzheimer unit included as this epidemic is only getting worst.
Looks fine the way it is. Banal, but then aren't almost all seniors' residences, except the uppermost high-end (e.g., Amica)?
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And downsizing it again from 8 to 4 still isn't going to stop the building casting shadows on the single storey homes across the street. It will just kill the development because it won't have the density to make it work.
In this case its the right development in the right location. As someone said this is exactly the type of development that the London plan is all about. If counsel doesn't approve it they way it is they might as well through that London plan right out the window.
I would say this gets approved!! If they originally had this at 6 stories it would be downsized to 4 or even 2 stories. Nothing will make the people complaining happy.
I missed this, so sorry that my comments and gripes are belated. But, man, why are the councillors even talking about "shadows"? Order a shadow study done at the developers' expense if there are concerns, and they'll do it. "Sunlight is at a premium"? Really? At Baseline and Wellington?
The thing is on the south side of the street. What's the width of the right-of-way on Baseline? This wouldn't cast much more of a shadow at six stories than the boulevard trees do now.
The site has now been cleared and fenced off. The homes were demolished. Were has this project been left off? Still fighting over the height? 8s vs 10s? Or waiting on City Hall or OMB?
I never bought the shadowing talk about this building. Go to city hall and see where the shadows go across Reg Cooper Square for a comparison. Mid day when the sun would be coming from the southern exposure, to possibly put shade to the north, the sun is high in the sky and shadows wouldn't even reach the street, let alone any houses. Later in the day, the shadows would be cast more towards the TDCT plaza and the intersection.
Well 2 years have gone by and still an empty field. Did the developer give up on this retirement residence project? Sifton appears to have started on theirs in West5. The one north of Sunripe in Hyde Park is nearing completion. Another one is proposed for a little farther east on north side of Fanshawe Park near Wonderland Rd.
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