Application to amend zoning for 170 to 200 Northfield Drive W and 570 to 655 Weber Street North

Changes to the Official Plan and the Zoning Bylaw for this location are required before a permit can be issued. This means that they submit an application that is reviewed by city planners and other agencies plus City Council before anything can be built.

Northfield Equities Inc. is proposing to develop a high-density residential community with commercial and employment uses on the subject lands. The plan includes 11 high-rise towers, five 1-storey buildings for employment/commercial uses and two park spaces, totaling 1.06 hectares.

Official plan changes requested include:

• re-designating a portion of the lands from Employment to Station Area Mixed-Use designation
• creating a new Specific Provision Area (SPA) to permit the following:
  • 36 storey maximum building height for three buildings
  • 32 storey maximum building height for two buildings; and
  • Permit logistics distribution, wholesale uses, small-scale warehousing as primary uses.
  • Existing and planned commercial uses shall not exceed 8,500 square metres of building floor area, and new commercial uses shall not exceed 3,716 sq.m. of building floor area.

Zoning By-law changes requested include:

Station Area Mixed-Use -105 (SAMU-105) Zone

• change in zoning, on a portion of the lands, from the Business Employment Two B (E2B-81) Zone to:
  • (Holding) Station Area Mixed-Use ((H)SAMU) Zone for the southerly portion of the subject lands.
• recognize existing commercial uses as contributing towards the minimum non-residential area building floor area per dwelling unit requirement.
• permit Assisted Living Facility and Long-Term Care Facility as primary uses
• allowing a maximum density of 1,300 bedrooms per hectare across SAMU zoned lands
• increase the tower height to 36 storeys (115 m)
• tower separation shall not apply to an interior lot line provided a minimum 22 m separation is maintained between towers.
• increasing the maximum horizontal tower dimension to 42 m for one building
• reducing the tower separation to 5 m and 3m for one tower abutting the existing public trail.
• reducing the tower stepback above the podium to 2 m for a maximum of three towers.
• permit structured parking on the first storey provided a minimum of 20% is comprised of specified uses.
• permit parks and open space uses in the SAMU-105 Zone.

Station Area Business Employment Two B -81 (E2B-81) Zone

• permit existing and established commercial uses on the Lands.
• permit a maximum of 8,500 sq.m of commercial uses on a portion of the lands.
• permit logistics distribution, wholesale uses, small-scale warehousing as primary uses
• limiting ancillary commercial uses to a maximum 40% of building floor area, and combined building area of 3,716 square m for specific buildings
• permit complementary and ancillary uses to be located on the first storey of a building and exempt from locating on the street line building façade.
• increase the maximum building height to 30 storeys

Other Regulations

• In the event of any future subdivision, the following are exempted provided the balance of the lands are zoning compliance: lot frontage, landscaped open space, landscape buffer, non-residential uses, and common outdoor amenity area.
• exempting the split zone regulations
• removing the Holding symbol as it relates to adjacent of the railway

View the documents submitted by the development company under supporting documents on this page for more details and drawings.

Building height, units, housing types

Tallest tower: 36 storeys

Number of units: 3,084

Unit sizes: mix of one, two and three bedrooms

Housing types: apartments

Non-residential floor space

Employment: 22,239 sq.m.

Commercial space: 342 sq.m.

Parking

Parking: 2,467 (primarily underground with 403 surface spaces)

Bicycle parking: 2,205

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