Circa 1877 (née Brick Brewery) | 20 fl | Complete

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On the other hand, they substantially reduced parking!

0.846 spaces per unit, down from 1.15
0.743 spaces per bed, up from 0.733

When I look at this, where the number of parking spaces per bedroom is nearly constant, it sounds like there was some dealing behind the scenes.

The Northdale area already requires parking on a "per bedroom" basis, which was a reaction to the explosion of 5-bedroom units.
Pointing at Northdale, several developments on King st have also reduced their parking requirement by cutting bedrooms down; turning 2-bedroom units into 1+den. This passes muster at the staff level, presumably because the assumption is that every bedroom in a unit is equally likely to contain an adult with a vehicle (and that 3 of every 4 adults has a car).

So, I imagine it went like this:

Residents: "This building is too tall"
City (to developer): "Cut your building 1 storey, and you get approval"
Dev: "Cut our parking requirement (spaces/unit) so we can cut down the height and not lose our shirts"
City: "Since you're clearly a rental in condo clothing, we'll let you switch to a parking requirement based on spaces per bedroom. Cut your bedrooms down to cut your parking down"
Dev: "Sure!"
Dev (to architect): "Cut one floor, redraw the parking lot one level smaller, and then remove the doors to second bedrooms until you meet the parking requirement!"