04-06-2018, 01:20 PM
(04-06-2018, 12:28 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(04-06-2018, 12:02 PM)welltoldtales Wrote: Although this tower is 12 floors it is actually slated to be 63 meters high. That is the actually the same height as One Victoria. This is not a small building going in and it does border on residential neighbourhood. Most residents asked for a scale back in the height and some actually asked for the inclusion of multi-unit residential. It's a legitimate concern.
The tower is tall, and the property abuts (a fairly small number of) single-family residential -- but the tower itself does not abut those properties. The parts abutting residential consist of the mid-rise office building and the parkette (shadow study shown below). And it should be noted that the developer did make a number of changes to address the original resident concerns, and the shadow impact, for example, is far smaller than in the original.
The shadow study actually still shows that the tower will create a shadow up to three blocks into the Midtown area. It's a big building. Changes have been made, but innovation cooridor zoning actually limits at 14m. This is 5x that.