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COURTESY CITY OF NIAGARA FALLS — Niagara City Council has approved official plan and zoning bylaw changes to permit two towers of 29 and 39 storeys in height, with 30,000 square feet of indoor amenity space at the edge of the Tourist District in Niagara Falls, Ont. Placemaker Co. is the developer of the property and the applicant is Rundanco Inc. The project has been designed by Giannone Petricone Associates.
The development will accommodate 812 rental apartment units and consist of slender towers sitting atop a podium with indoor and outdoor amenity space and onsite parking. The towers will be separated by a distance to take advantage of the views and prevent a shadow effect. The site was originally zoned tourist commercial, which allowed buildings up to four storeys. Placemaker Co. succeeded in getting the property rezoned to site-specific tourist commercial and also received permission to increase the maximum building height and reduce parking requirements.
Lastly, to encourage the timely development of the lands, staff recommended, and council accepted, that the amending bylaw include a sunset clause that would require the execution of a site-plan agreement or draft plan of condominium approval within three years with a one-year extension permitted at the discretion of the general manager of planning, building and development.
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