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RSS FeedsHow two Toronto developers got a 3-storey rental building past yellowbelt zoning rules
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10 august 2019 06:55:11

 
How two Toronto developers got a 3-storey rental building past yellowbelt zoning rules
(The Star Food)
 


It won’t completely solve Toronto’s housing shortage, but experts are calling a successful “gentle density” project in the Dufferin-Bloor area a step in the right direction.Nuno Nascimento and Nuno Paul, owners of Dufferin Lane Investments, recently won approval from Toronto’s committee of adjustment to build a three-storey building containing eight rental apartments on a site currently occupied by a detached single-family home.Nascimento and Paul purchased the 6,000-square-foot house on Dufferin St. in early 2016 for $870,000 and later decided they wanted to turn the property into a lowrise rental building. The process wasn’t easy. Late last year, with help from architectural firm MGBA, they brought forward their application which sought seven variances — exceptions to Toronto’s zoning bylaw — pertaining to things such as parking for bicycles and cars, floor space, building depth and landscaping.In the end all the variances were accepted by the committee of adjustment — with the assistance of a support letter from area city councillor Ana Bailao in mid-July.Their project falls into the so-called “yellowbelt” zone of the city. Used to describe about 70 per cent of the city, the yellowbelt refers to the yellow markings city planners use to indicate areas in Toronto’s official plan where higher density zoning isn’t really permitted. Only detached and a small number of semi-detached houses are permitted. But under the city’s Official Plan the area the development falls into is designated “neighbourhood” and one of the allowable uses within this designation is apartment buildings up to four storeys tall.But the zoning bylaw severely limits this form of housing. It’s timely and somewhat costly to try to meet these limits, so a lot of developers don’t try to create lowrise apartments.Urban planner Sean Galbraith calls the project “fantastic” an ...


 
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