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A developer has agreed to pay $200,000 for “community benefits” if it includes a boutique hotel inside a new 27-storey tower to be built on Metcalfe Street.
Toth Equity’s application to rezone the Art Deco-style Medical Arts Building at 180 Metcalfe was approved by the planning committee in June. But council deferred a final decision twice this summer to give Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney time to meet with the applicant in hopes of coming up with a redevelopment more in line with the neighbourhood plan for Centretown.
Completed in 2012 and approved by the province earlier this year, the plan does not allow for commercial use, such as hotel rooms, above the first two floors. Because the developer’s plan called for a six-storey boutique hotel as part of the primarily residential tower, McKenney wanted some sort of community benefit in exchange.
Now, after negotiations involving the developer and planning committee chairwoman Jan Harder, Toth has agreed to give the city $200,000, which will be put toward “green space and recreational opportunities” in Centretown, if it goes ahead with the hotel.
The developer won’t hand over the money, however, should it abandon plans for the hotel.
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Toth Equity’s application to rezone the Art Deco-style Medical Arts Building at 180 Metcalfe was approved by the planning committee in June. But council deferred a final decision twice this summer to give Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney time to meet with the applicant in hopes of coming up with a redevelopment more in line with the neighbourhood plan for Centretown.
Completed in 2012 and approved by the province earlier this year, the plan does not allow for commercial use, such as hotel rooms, above the first two floors. Because the developer’s plan called for a six-storey boutique hotel as part of the primarily residential tower, McKenney wanted some sort of community benefit in exchange.
Now, after negotiations involving the developer and planning committee chairwoman Jan Harder, Toth has agreed to give the city $200,000, which will be put toward “green space and recreational opportunities” in Centretown, if it goes ahead with the hotel.
The developer won’t hand over the money, however, should it abandon plans for the hotel.
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mpearson78
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