General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

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“Thirty storeys would make Shade Street, shade street,” says Cambridge resident

Plans for a new, 30-storey condominium project in east Galt got a rough ride from area residents at the planning meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
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Talking of the height and density of the project, with its 592 units, another resident said, “They are trying to cram 80 pounds into a five-pound bag.”

If approved as is, the project would create one of the tallest apartment towers in Waterloo region, in the middle of a low-rise, low-density neighbourhood on the fringe of the Galt core. Sited on a 2½-acre site at the corner of Shade and Kerr streets, it would be close to the proposed Cambridge main station of Waterloo Region’s LRT second phase.
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Even so, the proposal goes well beyond the limits set out within the city's zoning bylaw, which puts the maximum density allowed at 250 units per hectare. The developer is seeking to increase it by more than double, to 587 units per hectare. The maximum building height allowed under the zoning bylaw is 11 storeys, but the developer is proposing two apartment towers rising 24 and 30 storeys.

The developer is also seeking an amendment that would allow the minimum size of 20 single-bedroom apartments to be reduced to 473 square feet, from 538 square feet. None of the units in the project would meet the definition of affordable housing, and the developer intends to apply to turn the apartments into a condominium at a later date.

One area that isn’t in dispute would be parking, where the proposal would exceed the city’s parking requirements.

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