A new apartment building in the Annex represents a major assault to Toronto’s single-family ‘Yellowbelt’
But it is new apartment building in The Annex , on a street that is otherwise filled with houses. And so this proposal at 171 Lowther Ave. prompted some fiery rhetoric last week at Toronto East York Community Council.planning – for the better. For 50 years, the city’s house neighbourhoods have been a giant fortress. Apartment buildings have been banned almost entirely.
It’s not clear whether that legal argument is true. At the meeting, City of Toronto planning manager David Driedger and director Oren Tamir – who, to their great credit, were supporting the development – said it would not set a precedent. And on Lowther, a local family who owns three houses is following suit. Working with Gabriel Fain Architects and the planners WND, they want to replace two houses with an 11-storey, 64-unit building. The architecture is handsome and witty. Its irregular, brick-clad base playfully evokes the neighbourhood’s Edwardian and Victorian picturesque houses.
“This is a matter of breaking the rules,” said 40-year local resident Brydon Gombay. “If they’re broken on Dalton Road, which is a quiet street of affordable housing, then why not do it on all the streets west of here? We could become an area of high towers and I don’t think that’s what people want.”
Her feelings are entirely understandable. But her analysis of the issue was entirely backwards. Even if a developer bought her home for a redevelopment, she would be entitled by Toronto planning policy to compensation, and possibly even a brand-new apartment at low rent.
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