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Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy
Regarding 281 River
Village High Density Residential Policies
Encourage medium and high-rise multiple-family development;
o New development along River Avenue east of Osborne Street will have a
minimum of three storeys, and a maximum height of five storeys;
o New high-density development should consider the height, scale, prevailing
densities, and design characteristics of surrounding land uses;
The proposed five (5) storey, 99 unit multi-family building is consistent with the above policies in
the VHDR policy area of the OVNP. The proposed building is within the established height
limits, is adding additional residential density to the area and is consistent in scale and density with buildings in the surrounding area.
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Interesting. Seems a little odd. I guess I can see the 5 limit height making sense at the street (like this development), but I wonder if maybe they'd allow something taller if it was situated closer to the river. There's 5 buildings with 7+ storeys on the river side of River, between Donald and Osborne.
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Originally Posted by michelleb
Good eye. DIN Projects also designed the ugly as sin Chaeban Ice Cream building next door and the 257 Osborne office building (Osborne Place at the Station). They really like blocky buildings based on their other projects: http://www.dinprojects.ca/ |
Chaeban is the former Banana Boat esquire was referring to. It's a great project, but the finishings are terrible. Maybe that siding wouldn't look as bad if it wasn't grey. They dropped a lot of the modern/minimalistic touches from the renders, which sucks.
Has anyone heard anything regarding Osborne Place? I just don't get it. All the construction is cleaned up and gone, landscaping done, but the building isn't finished and no one has moved in. Really hope this didn't jeopardize the residential building planned.