195 Wellington St S |?| 20 fl | Proposed

[johnnyhamont]

Initially filed in 2014. LPAT hearing scheduled to commence Mon June 15 2020

[urban_planner]

Anything ever happened happen with this at LPAT?

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by urban_planner

Anything ever happened happen with this at LPAT?

The hearing scheduled for June 15 does not appear to have occurred for whatever reason, it's been removed from the LPAT e-status website. Probably COVID related.

No rescheduled meeting has been posted.

[johnnyhamont]

Originally Posted by urban_planner

Anything ever happened happen with this at LPAT?

The parties involved in the LPAT hearing agreed to postpone it indefinitely and continue settlement discussions outside LPAT.

[JoeyColeman]

The LPAT will conduct a series of Case Management Conferences in the coming months, this will be one of them. The orders, scheduling the CMCs, have started to be issued. Not yet for this file, my expectation is in the next two weeks.

A few hearings are now being scheduled for fall, by video conference. There is a growing optimism in-person hearings will resume after Thanksgiving.

[johnnyhamont]

Per Joey Coleman, Sept 28 is when the LPAT settlement is expected.
https://twitter.com/JoeyColeman/stat...07262394789889

[mikevbar1]

There are some massings for this that I managed to find from a quick google search, though I haven't looked for the approval yet.
https://medium.com/@emilybpower/meda...s-48817e7f2f52
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[craftbeerdad]

Hope this doesn't happen.

Medallion are notorious shit bags (see Rebecca Towers and fire at the Parliament Street building in Toronto). This will not be a quality build and also more importantly will have societal impacts for residents and future residents.

Here's a render of their proposed tower from the same article linked above.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by craftbeerdad

and also more importantly will have societal impacts for residents and future residents.

What impacts?

This doesn't seem out of line with the character of the area: apartment towers interspersed among homes, some of them older, a few hundred metres away.

That blogger may have raised some good points, but that's her only post. I have to wonder why...

[craftbeerdad]

It's right beside the dog park and doesn't fit along the landscape at all. It's bad enough with the Vista condos embedded into the Escarpment, this would look absolutely stupid.

Impact?

Medallion has a history of renovictions where they do not work alongside tenants, displacing them, and then at best allowing them to move back in at higher rents. That's at best. If you don't know what happened in Toronto, then try googling that and finding the trove of crap they put people through at St Jamestown.

Medallion has sought an inordinate amount of AGI's/passing on building costs to residents when it's not a condo building and is a long term asset that has compounded many times over while not even doing the bare minimum when it comes to upkeep.

This isn't her only article, she's written for the Spectator for awhile, Global News and more mediums.

[TheHonestMaple]

Hopefully this gets approved. It's reasonable density in a neighbourhood already fill of high rises. I don't trust that article one bit. Seems extremely biased and dishonest.

[matt602]

Yeah this is a garbage location an design and Medallion can eat it. Hope it gets shitcanned.

[urban_planner]

https://www.thepublicrecord.ca/2021/...-street-south/

[TheHonestMaple]

Images from the article.

[TheRitsman]

This looks like a really nice addition to this site and the Corktown neighbourhood. Adding tons of new housing and improving what seems like a crappy complex.

[TheHonestMaple]

Interesting article from the Spec today on this project. Can't say I agree with them. It is not the tenants right to live on a landlords property. It's the owner of the land who is putting up all the risk. If they want to renovate/redevelop and charge a higher rate, it is entirely in their right to do that. People paint landlords as the devil incarnate, couldn't be farther from the truth though.

With that being said, it would seem Medallion is playing quite fair here and will be offering displaced tenants units at a similar rate as before. Whether they chose to wait the few years it will take to build the new building is another matter.

[ScreamingViking]

Hopefully there will be movement on this development now.

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...29a6c967e.html

After years of uncertainty, tenants of a Hamilton low-rise complex slated for partial demolition have secured a relocation plan from their landlord.

The negotiated agreement offers security to dozens facing displacement from 195 Wellington St. S., a three-storey complex by Corktown Park.

A key provision is that tenants living in units eyed for the wrecking ball can be shielded from higher rates in Hamilton’s jacked rental market.

“That’s definitely what I was looking at,” said Althea Samuel, who shares a two-bedroom apartment with her two daughters in the 85-year-old building.

Medallion Corporation’s relocation plan makes other units at the U-shaped complex available to displaced tenants at the same rate, or less if the substitute apartments are smaller.

Likewise, they can move to similar units in other Medallion buildings and pay their current rent.

Another option, tenants can opt for buildings outside of Medallion’s portfolio, in which case, the firm has agreed to a year of compensation based on departing rent. Moving expenses are also to be covered.

The arrangement springs from talks with city officials as part of a settlement of Medallion’s appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal.