General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[tomh009]

A least it seems the complaining residents realize they are fighting a losing battle.  Intensification will and must happen in the neighbourhood.  With such close proximity to the LRT, this aligns with City growth plans.  A reduction of parking is justified as a result of this fact.  Perhaps underground/covered parking with a 5 storey building that has a wider foot print would be better received?  It is unfortunate that surface parking remains to some degree.

Here is the Planning Justification Report for the project.  https://www.waterloo.ca/en/government/re...report.pdf

Looks like a nice quality infill project. Underground parking is my preferred option, but I think surface parking fits this site perfectly fine. The building is built along the street and hides the parking completely. I prefer that over having the parking take up the first floor and have some horrendous façade like DTK or one28.

Podiums don't need to be ugly. 144 Park/Caroline facades look fine, no worse than the rest of the building. 1 Victoria is fine as well, I think, as is the Garment/100 Victoria cluster. Not architectural masterpieces but the podiums are not atrocious.