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Originally Posted by J.OT13
From Leiper Newsletter:
The Buil-Heritage Sub-Committee will consider an "application to alter and partially demolish St-Marc's Church on Elgin Street".
I was unable to find anything on DevApps.
Elgin is possibly the only main street that has not seen any condo development thus far, which is quite surprising. The new infrastructure and renewal might spark some interest.
For St-Marc, if they keep the main church on Elgin and only demolish the back-end, I'd be ok with that. Not sure if the church owns the parking lot, but a 6 storey residential building, 8 tops, could fit in well.
http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=8314&doctype=AGENDA
Elgin IMO has the best collection of commercial retail and residential buildings anywhere along Ottawa's main streets. I do not want 8-12 storey blocks marching down the street as we have seen elsewhere. The narrow nature of the RoW is another consideration.
Preserving the heritage street fronts 100% and replacing parking lots and 70s-2000s retail strips with 4-6 storey buildings would increase the density further but still preserve the unique human-scale. |
The tower has been on the verge of collapse the past few months, so I don’t think this is a development related move (at least not yet). They’ve temporarily braced the tower but theres a very apparent vertical split running in the stones. It’d be a shame to see it go as it’s one of the oldest structures on the street, but it looks like they’ll be documenting each stone for a rebuild at some point
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