02-09-2020, 10:30 PM
(02-09-2020, 03:03 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(02-09-2020, 12:59 PM)tomh009 Wrote: I really doubt this would have a significant traffic impact. I think their current campus has fewer than 100 students, and most of the international students are living on (or within a walking distance from) the campus.
Maybe, but we're both just speculating, was a traffic study done? Why do people get to insist on a traffic study for housing, but not for a school.
And even if it isn't a problem, the same process would have followed for a 2000 student public school.
A traffic study would not be done for residential construction if it's within the zoning parameters.
In this case it's only an interior renovation, and changing the use of (part of) the building to another one that is still allowed by the zoning. Basically, if you own a property, you can use it for anything that the zoning bylaws allow, unless that activity otherwise requires licensing.
Of course you can still lobby the city for a traffic study, but I don't think the city can stop the changed use of the building if it's explicitly permitted by the zoning bylaws.