1198 Fischer Hallman Rd | 14 & 22 | Proposed

[ZEBuilder]

Activa is proposing two towers with total heights of 14 and 22 floors, with a 4 storey podium connecting the two towers together. The property that Activa owns is being split into two phases, phase 1 already has site plan approval and is for 138 townhome units both conventional and stacked. The phase 2 development proposes 228 1 bedroom units, 136 2 bedroom units and 9 3 bedroom units, this totals to 373 housing units. The development also contains 11690 sqft of commerical space fronting Fischer Hallman Rd this is split into 5 units ranging from 1540 to 3290 sqft. 349 parking spaces are provided for the development which includes commerical, visitor and residential parking. The number of parking spaces per residential unit is 0.82 less than the required 0.9. Indoor amenity space is provided on top of the building between the towers, outdoor amenity space is provided in a little park that is included in phase 1.

Documents for OPA/ZBA: 1198 Fischer Hallman OPA/ZBA

Architectural Drawings: 1198 Fischer Hallman Rd Drawings

Render from Rockwood Rd/Fischer Hallman Rd, it includes a rough outline of the proposed development at 1200 Fischer Hallman Rd (34 storeys)

   

Site Plan, Including phase 1

   

[panamaniac]

Anticipating someone will put an even taller tower right at the corner?

[ZEBuilder]

Anticipating someone will put an even taller tower right at the corner?

There's already a approved 34 storey tower for the corner, we already have a thread for it; 1200 Fischer-Hallman Rd | 34 fl | Proposed (waterlooregionconnected.com)

[ac3r]

If you look close, you can see they render it in the background - albeit vaguely.

[westwardloo]

The towers look great. Wish we could get this type of building built in uptown, midtown or downtown. They clearly hired a firm that actually knows how to design a podium. Personally I hate that large townhouse development are filled with private roads, but I can understand why the city might like them.

[nms]

Internal roads are largely to act as fire and emergency routes.

[neonjoe]

Look at all those traffic lights in the render...
Lights at Rockwood and Fischer-Hallman plus what looks to be an extension of Rockwood right across Fischer-Hallman into Williamsburg.
There's even traffic signals for the driveway from the development onto Rockwood.

[dtkvictim]

The towers look great. Wish we could get this type of building built in uptown, midtown or downtown.  They clearly hired a firm that actually knows how to design a podium.  Personally I hate that large townhouse development are filled with private roads, but I can understand why the city might like them.

It's a bit of a stretch to even call them roads. They are just oddly shaped parking lots.

[KevinL]

what looks to be an extension of Rockwood right across Fischer-Hallman into Williamsburg.

Pure artistic licence, that; there's already developed homes backing onto there.

[ac3r]

The towers look great. Wish we could get this type of building built in uptown, midtown or downtown.  They clearly hired a firm that actually knows how to design a podium.  Personally I hate that large townhouse development are filled with private roads, but I can understand why the city might like them.

They're by Martin Simmons Sweers, one of the better local firms (Edge is usually good too, especially when they use the wood <3). Activa has deep pockets which is probably why they hired them. Everyone else seems to go bottom of the barrel. ABA - which have the most boring looking buildings ever (though their style sometimes works) - and SRM unfortunately get hired the most.

[KevinL]

Seems the farmhouse they will be removing is older than it looks - built in 1855. There's little heritage in it to be saved, apparently, as repeated renovations have removed any of its old features.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...er-hamlet/

[ac3r]

And it's not as if there aren't a lot of old farmhouses around here and across the nation. They're hardly unique or rare.

[ZEBuilder]

Staff are recommending approval of this OPA/ZBA at the next Planning and Strategic Initiatives meeting on the 30th. Neighborhood concerns are similar to what are expected of the area being that it is relatively suburban. Staff do mention in the report 1200 Fischer Hallman (34 floors) so certainly if councillors have concerns about height staff are going to relate to that, which also might be how Councillor Davey justifies his ask for more units (he's asked for more height/units at 3 meetings now).

[ZEBuilder]

This did not get approved at tonight's committee meeting, it has now been deferred to next Mondays council meeting. Councillor Singh was unexpectedly very against this (this is in his ward) citing concerns about traffic, building transitions in particularly the 14 floor building that is closest to the low rise building is too tall, yet 2 hours earlier supported 32 floors right next to low rise along Weber (Fischer Hallman is just as big as Weber). He was also suggesting that Tower 2 (22 floors) be made taller in order to shorten Tower 1, which would make for a rather abrupt sky line in the area. Staff had no issues with the development in its current form so Singh is going against staff in this case.

[ac3r]

Gotta pander to your voter base, I suppose.