The plan is tied to a larger application for a 300\u002Dunit apartment project on a parking lot that currently serves a downtown office building.
It’s tied to a much larger planning application that was also before committee Thursday: a 300-unit apartment project by developers Glenview and Taggart to be built on a parking lot that currently serves a Glenview-owned office building on the other side of the intersection of Nepean and O’Connor streets, where the new development would be located.
Public delegates and committee members pushed the developers to consider instead including the 30 parking spaces for Glenview’s office tenants in the underground garage that would be built for the residential occupants of the proposed Glenview-Taggart development across the street. “We will not solely own the apartment building. We currently and historically have solely owned our own parking, and that’s a condition for us of proceeding.”Committee heard pleas to defend the private-market affordable housing units that would be lost and tenants who would be uprooted if the demolition and rezoning permissions the developer was seeking for the parking-lot site were granted.
had reached a deal with the developers that would offer current tenants paid moves to a nearby Taggart or Glenview building in units with the same bedroom count at the same rent they had been paying for their old unit for a five-year period. “If we continue going down this road, people will be living in their cars. We will need parking lots, people need to park their cars there, because that’s where they’re going to have to live,” said McKenney, who is not a member of planning committee.Let’s just do the right thing. Let’s just say, ‘Not for a parking lot. Do not take away people’s housing for parking lot.'”
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