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Originally Posted by matt602
My perfect vision of this project would also be if the strip mall was leveled and an 8-10 story condo with ground floor retail went up in it's place. That strip mall never should have been there in the first place. Pretty sure it's owned by the same guy doing the James and Vine thing, unfortunately.
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the same. Getting rid of that plaza, whether for parkland or higher-density mixed use development, will be the most significant measure of James North's ability to move the needle.
Density will probably always be a point of friction with locals. Beaume's James/Vine development
awoke worries about it being "too big" despite being within the city's established height allowances.
Under the
Secondary Plan's Schedule L-3, height on the James-Hughson-Wilson-Cannon block tops out at 6 storeys, while the block directly to the east (and the five that follow) is for 4-storey development. (The city has set a 12-storey ceiling along York from Bay to MacNab.)
There are obviously allowances that can be made: Vrancor's
Homewood Suites development, for example, is on a site earmarked for 12-storey max. But the first step would just be putting CentrePoint into play.