417 King St W | 55 fl | Proposed

[CuilTard]

This is going to the next Planning and Strategic Initiatives meeting on the 30th. Staff are recommending approval of the development. The public comments are surprisingly minimal for this development with only 10 members of the public commenting. There were the usual too tall, doesn't fit into the existing downtown comments. There were also comments surrounding 3 bedroom units as well as not enough bike parking. Vanmar has updated the design to include 1 bike space per unit. There has been no 3 bedroom units included but city staff provided an interesting data point in that 27000 of the 3+ bedroom units in the city are occupied by only 1 or 2 people. This means 44% of large units in the city have more bedrooms than people living in them.

Yep. Neighbours got a mailer like this     . It's not easy to figure out what time this project will be discussed. I think this is the meeting agenda: 

https://pub-kitchener.escribemeetings.co...3a1761a24a&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English

and it's the last item 10.5 in part two (6:30 - 10 PM) https://pub-kitchener.escribemeetings.co...3a1761a24a&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English#:~:text=on%20this%20matter.)-,10.5,-Official%20Plan%20Amendment

So does that imply it's scheduled to be discussed 9:30 - 10 PM?

My only other public comment/concern is the giant F design. Have they considered other letters or if we want to have a 55-story, giant F in DTK?