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Has the extension been approved?
The floor plans are a bit different - tiny LRs, but bedrooms that seem larger than a lot of new construction.
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The current building permits are only for the interior renovations.
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Trio includes water and heat; electricity not included (I think Trio, like this one, has individual AC units so electricity will be the biggest cost).
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Trio also has in-suite laundry, which is a pretty major selling point to some people (me included).
Woodside does not, since it is apparently really expensive to retrofit into a building that wasn't built for it.
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08-09-2018, 07:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-09-2018, 07:56 AM by danbrotherston.)
Do you know what laundry facilities it does have?
A building I lived in in California had a laundry room on each floor. This seemed to be a really good trade off with in suite vs basement. Saving the elevator trip was a really big deal, and sharing the machines with only a few other people on your floor meant that it was usually free. Plus you still had the advantage of being able to do two loads at once. But I've never seen a similar configuration here before.
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Interesting that some of the balcony are glass and some are bars. I'm guessing the wooden stairs are only temporary?
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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There is a meeting tomorrow night about the zoning amendment for the addition.
The part of the proposed amendment about reduced parking requirements was withdrawn after neighbourhood concerns and staff intervention.
The urban design brief can be found on
page 26 of the agenda.
I guess this answers the question about the stairs. The main entrance will be closer to highland when the project is finished:
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Thanks! That makes sense now, they are temporary but probably for a few years until the next phase is built.
In this particular case, no real complaints about shadows or the character of the neighbourhood. 80% of the complaints are about on-street parking by building residents (already in the past, too) and the remainder about poorly aimed security lights.
My vote is to ban on-street overnight parking to eliminate the parking issue.
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Or ban people who have space for two vehicles (garage+driveway). I remember a Cambridge household in the paper that was expecting the city to accommodate their 5 cars, without requiring them to even use their garage.