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To permit the development of a ten-storey, 137 unit residential apartment building, 47 surface parking spaces and one level of underground parking, accommodating 223 parking spaces. The proposed building would be on the existing surface parking lot that currently serves Sandringham Apartment residents. The underground parking proposed and the surface parking at the rear would accommodate both the existing Sandringham Apartment building and the proposed building.
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85 Range Road development limited to four stories
Posted Nov 26, 2009
BY DESMOND DEVOY
http://www.emcottawaeast.ca/20091120...o+four+stories
Ottawa City Council has voted to change a loophole in a zoning bylaw in Sandy Hill that would have allowed for construction of a new 10-storey apartment building on Range Road.
“As of this time, the zoning of the state at 85 Range Road no longer allows for a structure to be built to the height of 30 meters (10 storeys), but rather to one of 14.5 meters (about 4 storeys)…which stays in line with the City’s intensification goals,” wrote Ward 12 (Rideau-Vanier) City Councillor Bedard in an email to local residents on Wednesday, November 25. While the 1957-era apartment building on the top one-third of the site will be allowed to stay, the amendment applies to the remaining two-thirds of the property, which is currently at parking lot.
Coun. Bedard had brought his “anomolies and minor corrections” motion before the City’s Planning and Environment Committee the day before, where it passed with one dissention from Coun. Gord Hunter (Ward 9 – Knoxdale-Merivale).
However, the developer for the proposed apartment complex on the property, Homestead Land Holdings Limited, was clearly incensed by the process used to adapt the law. Janet Bradley, a lawyer representing developer Homestead Land Holdings Limited, told the committee meeting that the company had met with Action Sandy Hill (ASH), Coun. Bedard, and area residents, including co-hosting a community meeting on the project last month.
“(So) you can imagine Homestead’s surprise, a week ago, when they got notice,” of Coun. Bedard’s motion, said Bradley during her presentation to the committee. She criticized Coun. Bedard’s method of using an “anomolies and minor corrections,” motion before committee, saying that such a process “is there to correct minor corrections…for typing, spelling errors and inconsistencies.”
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Planning committee shrinks zoning on 'intensification dream site' in Sandy Hill
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Pl...169/story.html
By Patrick Dare, The Ottawa CitizenNovember 24, 2009 3:03 PM Comments (4)
OTTAWA — The potential for a highrise development on Range Road has Sandy Hill residents upset.
Property at 85 Range Road., currently a parking lot beside an existing highrise apartment building, was this summer purchased by a large national landlord, Homestead Land Holdings.
The company's lawyer Janet Bradley told councillors the company investigated the zoning and found it allowed a 10-storey building. When the architect hired for the project suggested a 14-storey building might be better, city officials were approached.
Those city officials found out there had been an oversight in the comprehensive zoning bylaw that merged all the zoning bylaws from the area's pre-amalgamation municipalities. While the current zoning allowed a 10-storey building, another official planning document for Sandy Hill called for low-rise development — and on this site, only four storeys.
Paul Webber, lawyer for the community association in Sandy Hill, said residents were prepared to accept building on the site, but “it’s a scale issue.”
City planning staff brought the issue before city council's planning and environment committee Tuesday to have the zoning changed as a “minor correction.”
A motion from Councillor Georges Bédard, who represents the area, limits the size of building to five storeys. The motion passed committee and goes to council Wednesday.
Bradley said the reduced height would be an unjustified downzoning for land that is “an intensification dream site.”
City planner John Smit said that with such a zoning, the developer could put in two buildings with a total of between 60 and 80 apartments.
If council approves the change in zoning, the matter could be appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board.
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On E-MAPS it looks like the apartment building/parking lot is one lot... the 30 metre zoning applies over the whole site.
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