General Suburban Updates and Rumours

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I don't think it's worthy of a separate post for just some townhouses, but I wanted to post this news of a large new townhouse plan in a remote part of Cambridge that is growing in weird ways.

Large townhouse complex proposed for rural Riverbank Drive

The real estate investment company Intermarket Cam Limited, the firm behind a number of developments in the city's north business park, has applied for an official plan and zoning bylaw amendment to build a 109-unit townhouse complex at 245 Riverbank Drive.

The 2.85-hectare property contains a single detached home, agricultural fields and natural heritage features and is located along the bend of Riverbank Drive between King Street East and Allendale Road.

The official plan amendment asks to re-designate the lands to from rural residential to low/medium density residential with site specific policy to allow 56 stacked townhouses and 53 row-house towns.

This whole northern corner of Cambridge seems to be growing with new industrial (expected) but also lots of new residential. I'm one of those "build it!" YIMBY types, and yet this part of town has absolutely nothing for residents in terms of services. There are no commercial areas, no parks, no schools, no hospitals. 

Preliminary Site Concept Plan

Urban Design Brief



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