06-01-2016, 11:24 AM
Reading over the City of Kitchener document I think the developer was trying to build a parking lot that came right up to King St (0m setback), and the city said that's not the purpose of a mixed use corridor. The 4.5m setback I'm pretty sure is designed to be so large that no developer would waste that much space on landscaping, and instead build the building right up to King St. The city says a landscape buffer because that's technically possible, but I don't think that's really the intent.