Applicant: AIPL Canada Holdings Inc.

Agent: Dillon Consulting (Joshua Hurley-Burns)

Proposal

The applicant has requested an amendment to Zoning By-law 8600 (ZBA) to facilitate the redevelopment and adaptive reuse of a former industrial and commercial property known historically as the SW&A Street Railway storage and maintenance barns. The proposed redevelopment plans include construction of a new multiple dwelling with 133 dwelling units and reuse of the existing buildings for commercial uses (see Appendix B: Conceptual Site Plan).

Specifically, the applicant is requesting to amend the zoning of the property from Commercial District 2.2 (CD 2.2) to a site specific Commercial District 2.2 (CD 2.2) that would permit:

  1. a multiple dwelling building;

  2. a building without direct access to a municipal street and services;

  3. a decrease in the minimum required gross floor area of 53 dwelling units from 40 m2 to 31 m2;

  4. an increase in maximum building height from 14 metres to 19 metres;

  5. a decrease in required amenity area from 12 m2 to 10 m2 per dwelling unit;

  6. a decrease the minimum required parking spaces from 1.25 spaces per dwelling unit to 1 space per unit, which would result in a total of 133 parking spaces dedicated for residential use instead of 166;

  7. 0 required visitor parking spaces;

  8. required parking spaces located on a property adjacent the dwelling units they are intended to serve;

  9. a decrease in the required separation distance between a parking area and an interior lot line from 0.9 metres to 0 metres;

  10. a decrease in the required separation distance between a parking area and a building wall containing a habitable window from 4.5 metres to 0 metres; and

  11. a decrease in the minimum required one-way lane width within an access area from 3.5 metres to 3 metres.

A Planning Justification Report, Traffic Impact Study, Parking Memo, Conceptual Site Plan, sample bachelor dwelling unit floor plan, and Archaeological Assessment Report have been submitted as part of the complete application for a zoning amendment.

The proposed development is subject to site plan control and the applicant has submitted a concurrent site plan control application (file no. SPC-036/19). The following material will be submitted for review as part of the site plan review process: