By Pepper Parr
November 12, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
It is a huge project for the Aldershot community.
The design is what architects refer to as brutal.
It is made up of 84 & 104 Plains Road East and 990 Glenwood Avenue which are designated Residential-Medium Density where the Permitted Uses are:
- Detached and semi-detached homes, townhouses, street townhouses and stacked townhouses, back-toback, townhouses, attached housing and walk-up apartments, with densities ranging between 26 and 50 units per net hectare
92 Plains Road East is designated Mixed Use Corridor where the Permitted Uses are:
- Site-specific permissions for a mixed-use building consisting of residential and at-grade office uses, with a maximum density of 234 units per hectare and a maximum building height of 7 storeys being permitted.
There is a lot about the development that has the community up in arms.
The pictures tell the reasons why.
Looking from the east
Looking from the west.
Rendering of the 11-storey development from the front
Development in Aldershot has been intense over the past five years. The designation of the Aldershot GO station as an MTSA area makes sense but goes against the way the Aldershot residents see their community growing.
There is now a desperate need for park space – with little land left to be used as a place for children to play.
LaSalle Park is nearing its capacity. The Adi West Station development has a small, almost tiny piece of land that is being looked at as a park.
There is a patch of land behind the development that is going to be built behind what is now the Solid Gold adult entertainment operation.
This is the answer to your story published later today about why houses can’t be built.
Because Burlington is ripe with NIMBY’s