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evolv said:
If you assume 8 units per floor you would get 57/58 stories. Is 8 reasonable?
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Always_Biking said:
That's probably about right. With that many units, this would have to be a tall one for sure.
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Hard to say as the lot is fairly big. It includes the building to the south of the empty parking lot. You might be able to get 12-14 units per floor. This will be tall one way or another but could end up being something like 38 floors. I'm hoping to see something 50 or over :D
 
evolv said:
If you assume 8 units per floor you would get 57/58 stories. Is 8 reasonable?
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I suspect it'll be something in the mid-40's, but nothing would surprise me these days. With a Max FAR of 9 they could get up into the mid 50's.

Here are the parcels for Guardian/Arriva which also has a Max FAR of 9. 118 floors and 809 units, compared to this one with 463 units, and a max FAR of 9 also. Obviously the designs are different, but if using a rough guess, you can see that one building and that many units is going to make it a tall one. If using the calculation of 6.86 units per floor like the whole Arriva Guardian block, you would get 67 floors for this one. It would be that high, but it shows that it could be in the 50's.

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Thanks! I didn't do the NCL, but drove by it earlier. The west side is really taking shape and there is now a glass enclosure on the LRT tunnel entrance.
 
evolv said:
If you assume 8 units per floor you would get 57/58 stories. Is 8 reasonable?
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8 could be now on the low side. Park Point and a few others I've check out are 10 or more. There could be a podium with an unknown number of units. It definitely should be tall.
 
So there is a pretty big agenda at CPC next week. Here is a link to the whole thing:
http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/pd/Docume...commission/agenda/2017/agenda-cpc-june-15.pdf

Items of interest are as follows:
5.01 (page 277/960) - Land Use redesignation of the old YWCA block. Recommend approval to zone CR20-C20/R20
5.02 (page 289/960) - Improvements to the 4th Ave Flyover area in Bridgeland. A bit of a visual (not much) on 297.
5.03 (page 337/960) - Heritage density transfer and lane closure for the 500 Hines Block. A few more details about the development in the executive summary, and a rendering on page 353, site plan page 354.
5.04 (page 355/960) - Land use for that weird one in Bankview at 19th Ave and 14A Street (name slips my mind, and weird is how I describe it, just my opinion).
5.10 (page 461/960) - Southland TOD. 2 weeks ago it was Wildwood Estates, now it is the parking lot in front of the Safeway on the other side of Macleod. Concept plan start on page 480.
5.11 (page 521/960) - The new YWCA, to replace the one being re-zoned as part of item 5.01. DP drawings start on page 534.
5.17 (page 633/960) - Land Use for the Banff Trail Student Housing tower (again, forget the proper name).
5.19 (page 675/960) - New small mixed use building in Bridgeland, at Edmonton Trail and Meredith Road. DP drawings on page 685.
5.22 (page 773/960) - Land Use amendment for the Sarina Homes project on 33d Ave SW around 16th Street.
5.25 (page 915/960) - Bridgeland Main Streets Land Uses
 
MichaelS said:
So here is the concept for the Southland Crossing TOD plans:

Pretty big density increase. Not a bad adaptation of what is there in my opinion. Here is the site plan:
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Agreed. This site reminds my of the Banff Trail site the way it is kind of an island to itself. There's a limited amount they can do with it, and what they are looking at seems reasonable. If you're putting that kind of density out in the suburbs, that's the place to do it.
 
It's not bad. It does turn its back from its surroundings. I'm assuming the massive setbacks from the surrounding roads are out of their control. That doesn't help them either.
 
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