A block away at 26 ave there are 5-storey buildings.
Oh yeah I wasn't going for accurate to scale. I'd imagine any height would be met with resistance given the context.I agree with your comments though I think that your yellow box is closer to 8 stories than 13. I think 8 would be fine there however 13 will get a lot of opposition, especially from Mount Royal.
Oh yeah I wasn't going for accurate to scale. I'd imagine any height would be met with resistance given the context.
But its all part of maturing into a big city. It shouldn't be surprising to see proposals for 13 storey buildings popping up from time to time in areas that aren't used to see them. Just like how infill townhomes, then infill apartment, then infill 6 storey mixed use is becoming more common.
For comparison, when Toronto was our size in the 1950s - 1960s, this was their major suburban apartment tower boom era (as well as enormous low-density sprawl).
Development economic conditions are vastly different today of course, but the fundamental growth condition that sets these things in motion is similar. So the occasional building taller than a walk-up shouldn't surprise anymore in a city of nearly 2 million people.
The Frontier building in Kensington have a similar profileToronto builds 70 storey scrapers across the street from tract housing. It is all big on transitioning height from medium to high rise down to single family. This terraced design https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Sheppard+Ave+W+&+Bathurst+St,+North+York,+ON+M3H+2S1/@43.7000906,-79.4275591,3a,75y,272.39h,113.49t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdleDdH_5ly0cMT7M4SvRQw!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=-23.485289683803344&panoid=dleDdH_5ly0cMT7M4SvRQw&yaw=272.3921249577384!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x882b327716b35a75:0x219e7e7140806a80!8m2!3d43.7554798!4d-79.4385257!16s/g/11f3hgj0nj?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw== has been copied and pasted hundreds of times. That's how it should be done