Church Wellesley Update
News from the Church Wellesley Neighbourhood Association
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PlazaCorp has proposed a 45-storey condominium tower at 20 to 26 Maitland Street, where the former Catholic Children's Aid headquarters and a Victorian house now stand.  A more ambitious project, for which a community consultation was held in April 2017, has been dropped. That concept plan envisioned two towers on Maitland Street of 50 and 29 storeys, with about two-thirds of the previous Green P parking lot designated public park. The new proposal does not include any of the Green P parking lot.
PlazaCorp's Planning and Urban Design Rationale City Staff Preliminary Report The report identifies numerous issues with the proposal, some of which are: • The height, massing, and scale of the proposal in relation to the existing and planned context; • Transition in height and massing to adjacent lands; • Proposed location of the tower and transition and separation distance to the adjacent low-rise built form; • Potential shadowing impacts on the adjacent open spaces, public realm and neighbouring properties; • Interface of the proposed built form with the adjacent public realm; • Potential wind impacts on the adjacent properties and public realm. Local residents will be notified of a community consultation once it is scheduled. For links to further and updated information, see our Interactive Map. Comments are closed.
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