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[Stoney Creek] 325 Highway 8 | ?m | 11 fl | Approved
There's a new public notice sign up at 325 Highway 8 saying that a 9-storey residential building is being proposed for the site. It's right next door to the recently completed Treviso Condominiums. 325 Highway 8 is currently zoned for a 3-storey residential building.
Here is the site: http://i.imgur.com/gc06J08.jpg Google Earth http://i.imgur.com/CZ3Lups.jpg Google Street View |
Sounds like a good idea
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Good height for the area.
There are lots of potential intensification opportunities along Queenston/Hwy 8. |
Hamilton Community News: Highway 8 condo plan in Stoney Creek raises eyebrows among neighbours
http://i.imgur.com/u3LsSwz.jpg By Kevin Werner | June 16, 2016 A new nine-storey condominium development at the corner of Highway 8 and Ellington Avenue has Stoney Creek residents steaming about the impact it will have on their homes. “It’s an eyesore,” said Stan Szewc, 84,who has lived in the townhouse off Ellington Avenue for the last 30 years. “It’s not good for the community. It doesn’t fit.” It was a sentiment that was echoed by the estimated 15 people who turned out for a public meeting June 8 at the Stoney Creek Municipal Service Centre. The proposal will need a rezoning application since the current zoning is commercial with a maximum height of three storeys. LJM Developments from Burlington, which is already constructing a major condo development in Grimsby along the Queen Elizabeth Way called the Waterview Condominiums, a luxury residential and retail development, has already filed an application to the city’s planning department for the 124,000-square-feet building that will have 128 units, with the majority of them one bedroom. There will be 142 parking spaces located underground, with visitor parking above ground. Access will be from Ellington Street. The building will be located next to the recently completed seven-storey Treviso Condominium complex, and across the street from a residential care facility. It has 54 units, and the owners also had to seek a rezoning application from the city. Residents complained that by adding another high-rise structure to the area, it will impact the surrounding neighbourhood that includes a cenotaph across Highway 8, elementary school and church. The new residential complex will also add to the traffic problems at the Highway 8 and King Street intersection, said Fred Vamici, who also lives in a townhouse directly behind the proposed development. “That is a busy intersection,” he said. “There is a lot of children there. I was so surprised when I heard it was going to be nine storeys. That scares me. This is just outrageous.” Stoney Creek councillor Maria Pearson who helped to organize the public meeting, acknowledged that there is no other nine-storey building within the area. “I’m not aware of that,” she said. LJM Development president Liaquat Mian, who has been developing residential and commercial projects throughout the Greater Toronto Area, including Burlington for the last 15 years, said the growth is moving towards Stoney Creek. “This is not the first time I have been confronted with this situation (opposition from residents),” said Mian during the public meeting. He said the new building will be a “boutique” development that is affordable” and a “top class building” that will attract young people. “This area needs condos,” Mian said. His consultants have already completed the necessary studies, including for traffic revealing there were not be the congestion problems residents say will happen. He said the building will also increase property values for surrounding homeowners. But homeowners were put off by Mian’s comments, shouting out that he should go back to Grimsby to build his homes. “There is supposed to be a major plan in place,” said Szewc, adding the building will not add value to his townhouse. “This is just not good for the community.” The development proposal is still being evaluated by Hamilton’s planning staff and no date for a public meeting has been set. |
only 2 storys taller but more than double the units. thats a lot more dense
I can see them settling on 7 storys(similar to next door) and around 100 units. |
This needs a thread title update. Project was approved at 6 stories today at Planning Committee. Still has to be approved at council on March 8.
Designed by RAW Design. 93 Units $50m value Can we have a few of these downtown? Much better than the stucco monstrosity next door, IMO... It's the same developer as Appleby Gardens, which seems to be turning out really well. I expect good things. Planning documents, elevations & other goodies can be found here https://i.imgur.com/0Dyw7GW.png https://i.imgur.com/qdWCqYS.png https://i.imgur.com/NpckTHB.png https://i.imgur.com/nhtG30p.png https://i.imgur.com/KmQ4UJZ.png |
Website: kingspark.ca
http://i.imgur.com/xRCQl0P.jpg source This thread needs a name update to [Stoney Creek] King's Park Condos | ?m | 6 fl | Approved |
I like it. I didn't realize LJM were the developers of Eleven Superior in Mimico. I really enjoy that building.
http://parklawncondos.com/wp-content...ico-condos.jpg |
Will it have retail?
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Sales centre is open, it's already 40% sold.
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No wonder, this is a really nice little building!
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looks like it will be nicer than the condo next door
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I keep getting this ad for King's Park...
It switches between showing two new renderings. I pulled the full images from the code... https://i.imgur.com/zZoh4Xx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hSMTLic.jpg |
There's a new development application asking for a zoning amendment...
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I emailed the planning department for the architectural files:
https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/...nt-png.249515/ full architectural set is here: https://cityshare.hamilton.ca/s/i7pRcDasfAnqFi4 |
Planning Committee voted with staff recommendation to reject the application for rezoning to 11 stories.
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Off to the LPAT!
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And people wonder why rents in Hamilton are so high. I hope the city gets squashed.
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Approved at the LPAT, unsurprisingly.
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[Stoney Creek] King's Park Condos | ?m | 6 fl | Approved >>> [Stoney Creek] 325 Highway 8 | ?m | 11 fl | Approved
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Builder wins 11-storey Stoney Creek condo battle
‘Very disappointed’ Coun. Maria Pearson criticizes density, parking https://www.thespec.com/local-stoney...do-battle.html A developer has won its fight against the city over plans for an 11-storey condominium building across the road from Cenotaph Park in Stoney Creek. A Feb. 8 decision by the Ontario Land Tribunal approves the necessary zoning changes to make way for the 148-unit building at 325 Hwy. 8, located at the northwest corner of Ellington Avenue. The ruling ends a lengthy battle between the city and LJM Developments Inc. over the height of the building, originally proposed at 12 storeys in 2015, then revised to nine storeys a year later before being lowered to six. The city approved the latter in 2017 and LJM opened a sales centre, marketing the 93-unit development as King’s Park Condominiums. But three years later, LJM submitted a new application for 11 storeys, contending a six-storey building was no longer viable. It then appealed to the OLT after the city reject the changed plan for the 0.268-hectare lot. “I’m very disappointed,” said Coun. Maria Pearson, who represents the area, citing concerns about added traffic and plan’s provision of 0.98 parking spaces per unit. “I think I’m one of the more proactive councillors in terms of supporting development. This is the only one that I can ever recall that I couldn’t support the density on this particular piece of property.” But John Ariens, land-use planning consultant for LJM, said via email the ruling acknowledges development will fit the neighbourhood. “While we fully understand the concerns raised in opposition to this taller and more dense project, the evidence demonstrated that no adverse impact would be created and that a compatible interface with the surrounding area would result,” he said. In his 29-page ruling, OLT member Kurtis Andrews said LJM and the city agreed the development’s noise, traffic and shadow impacts weren’t at issue. But they disagreed on the impact to the character of the area, he said, which includes a seven-storey condo to the west, townhouses to the north, Lakeview Retirement Centre and Clarion Nursing Home to the east, and Cenotaph Park and St. Francis Xavier Church to the south. Andrews said this left the primary questions of whether the plan “goes too far in terms of height and density, and if the revised layout and setbacks are otherwise appropriate.” The city called a single witness — senior planner Tim Vrooman — while LJM called six, including Ariens and experts in urban design, architecture, acoustical engineering, landscape architecture and transportation planning. Andrews accepted all the evidence from LJM’s consultants, siding with Ariens’ view that the development is “an appropriate form of redevelopment along a major arterial road” by a signalized intersection with crosswalks. He also backed Ariens’ position on reducing the number of required parking spaces to 0.98 per unit, or 145 spaces, which includes 22 visitor spaces. That’s down from the 1.39 per unit, or 206 spaces, allowed by the six-storey plan. Andrews accepted that LJM’s number is consistent with an LJM consultant’s parking demand analysis concluding one space per unit is enough. “The city provided no evidence, in the form of a report or otherwise, to support the contention that the proposed number of parking spaces would not actually meet the demand of the proposed development,” his ruling stated. Pearson said she doesn’t understand how the parking spaces will be adequate, even if Highway 8 is a major bus route and LJM says the condos will cater to young professionals, first-time homebuyers and empty nesters. “I don’t believe all of them are going to be using transit, or even half of them,” she said. “You get more and more people that get four-by-four trucks. You try and put these trucks in some of these parking spaces today, good luck.” |
Latest rendering.
This is also apparently going to be called "LJM Landing" https://d2kcmk0r62r1qk.cloudfront.ne...3_landing.jpeg |
Site plan is filed
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