Demo at MacNab and Cannon

hmagazine · #1 Posted **May 19, 2009, 3:52 PM**

The former Toronto-Hamilton Auto-Electric building:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mixedme...on/3546285312/

Wondering a few things:

a: do they have a permit (demo, building, anything?)
b: the guy on the hoist told me they are building a church there - but
in the meantime - a parking lot will go in to raise some funds...

Does this qualify as downtown? No new parking lots right?

Man - this is not an area we need another hole in or more parking spaces...

SteelTown · #2 Posted **May 19, 2009, 4:10 PM**

Assuming this is ward 2 there's no demolition permit from either 2009 or 2008. It's on Cannon St? So the address should be something like ### Cannon Street?

FairHamilton · #3 Posted **May 19, 2009, 4:24 PM**

Someone should report this immediately to the City! Perhaps the property owners need some 'education' on what can and can't be done at that location.

hmagazine · #4 Posted **May 19, 2009, 4:27 PM**

it has a macnab address - located between cannon and vine.

Millstone · #5 Posted **May 19, 2009, 4:22 PM**

Rebecca St defines the north boundary of the BIA. They just might get away with it if those are the parameters.

SteelTown · #6 Posted **May 19, 2009, 4:39 PM**

I just checked and there no demolition permit for anything along MacNab St from 2009 and 2008. Should report this.

hmagazine · #7 Posted **May 19, 2009, 6:51 PM**

Just got the word back they there is a demo permit.

Waiting to hear about the parking lot comment made by one of the crew members....

realcity · #8 Posted **May 19, 2009, 7:32 PM**

just no parking lot is allowed on HMP.....

realcity · #9 Posted **May 19, 2009, 7:33 PM**

i dont know how much more i can take.... of "The Best City in Canada to Raise a Child">....

ihateittoo · #10 Posted **May 21, 2009, 12:08 AM**

"Best City in Canada to Raze a Buliding"

highwater · #11 Posted **May 21, 2009, 12:42 AM**

Best city in Canada to park a car.

adam · #12 Posted **May 21, 2009, 2:36 AM**

Best urban centre in Canada to have a suburban mindset.

ryan_mcgreal · #13 Posted **May 21, 2009, 2:46 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by highwater

Best city in Canada to park a car.

Best city in Canada to "drive thru" without stopping.

hmagazine · #14 Posted **May 21, 2009, 3:08 AM**

Just got this:

103 MacNab Street North is in the D5, Downtown Residential Zone (Zoning
By-law 05-200) and is designated Low Density Residential in the Downtown
Hamilton Secondary Plan.

A place of worship is a permitted use in the D5 Zone. A parking lot on
a cleared and vacant site is not. Specifically, Section 5.1a)vi) of
Zoning By-law 05-200 states "Within any Downtown Zone, no new surface
parking lots shall be permitted except where the parking is accessory to
the main use." A cleared and vacant site with no main use cannot have
accessory parking. Furthermore, a Commercial Parking Facility is not
one of the uses permitted in the D5 Zone, so they would not be permitted
to operate a parking lot to raise funds. A Commercial Parking Facility
is defined in Section 3 as "all or part of a parcel of land or building,
other than a street or laneway, used for the parking of motor vehicles
for compensation, but shall not include an accessory parking lot to a
principal use of the property located on the same lot." Where a
commercial parking facility is a permitted use in the Downtown (Downtown
Zones D1, D2 and D3), the zoning regulations require a new one to be in
a structure (i.e. it cannot be surface parking lot).

New surface parking lots are also prohibited in the Downtown area
bounded by Hunter, Queen, Cannon and Wellington streets by the Downtown
Hamilton Secondary Plan's general land use policy (Policy 6.2.3.3.1g)).