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Slow sales of new condos have meant fewer rezonings for tall buildings in downtown Ottawa, but four towers on two sites will get councillors’ attention at a planning committee next week.
One two-tower project, at the corner of Sparks and Bay streets, includes a 17-storey hotel to replace the defunct one currently on the site (it used to be an independent called the National, and before that a Delta). The owner, Morguard Corp., wants to tear it and an adjoining low-rise apartment building down and build a 23-storey condo tower and a new 27-storey hotel.
Both would be taller than the property’s zoning would allow now. Morguard promises to add retail space and integrate a nearby office building into one big complex in a part of downtown that’s often pretty dead.
Rendering of towers planned for Sparks and Bay streets.
Coun. Catherine McKenney, who gets to add formal comments to the planning department’s report recommending the proposal be approved, wrote that she appreciated that but believes the plan doesn’t include enough landscaping and plants in a neighbourhood that’s too dominated by bricks and concrete.
It will also put an entrance to an underground garage beside a bike lane on Bay and cars will cut across it constantly, she pointed out: “This poses a hazard to cyclists using the bike lane and pedestrians using the sidewalk.”
The other proposal, at the corner of Rideau and Chapel streets in Lowertown, is for a pair of condo towers where the Ottawa Torah Institute High School (among other things) used to be. The plan for two 25-storey buildings needs a rezoning to change rules that allow only about six storeys. But they’re outdated, in light of a city-approved plan last fall to permit tall buildings along Rideau Street.
Coun. Mathieu Fleury pronounced himself “very happy that we are able to work with the applicant to come to the design that is being proposed.” The builder, Trinity Developments, is to include a small public park on the property and give the city $1.8 million, mainly for improvements to nearby parks and bike routes. Fleury will get to direct much of that spending.
The planning committee will take the two proposals up in a meeting on Tuesday morning.
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One two-tower project, at the corner of Sparks and Bay streets, includes a 17-storey hotel to replace the defunct one currently on the site (it used to be an independent called the National, and before that a Delta). The owner, Morguard Corp., wants to tear it and an adjoining low-rise apartment building down and build a 23-storey condo tower and a new 27-storey hotel.
Both would be taller than the property’s zoning would allow now. Morguard promises to add retail space and integrate a nearby office building into one big complex in a part of downtown that’s often pretty dead.
Rendering of towers planned for Sparks and Bay streets.
Coun. Catherine McKenney, who gets to add formal comments to the planning department’s report recommending the proposal be approved, wrote that she appreciated that but believes the plan doesn’t include enough landscaping and plants in a neighbourhood that’s too dominated by bricks and concrete.
It will also put an entrance to an underground garage beside a bike lane on Bay and cars will cut across it constantly, she pointed out: “This poses a hazard to cyclists using the bike lane and pedestrians using the sidewalk.”
The other proposal, at the corner of Rideau and Chapel streets in Lowertown, is for a pair of condo towers where the Ottawa Torah Institute High School (among other things) used to be. The plan for two 25-storey buildings needs a rezoning to change rules that allow only about six storeys. But they’re outdated, in light of a city-approved plan last fall to permit tall buildings along Rideau Street.
Coun. Mathieu Fleury pronounced himself “very happy that we are able to work with the applicant to come to the design that is being proposed.” The builder, Trinity Developments, is to include a small public park on the property and give the city $1.8 million, mainly for improvements to nearby parks and bike routes. Fleury will get to direct much of that spending.
The planning committee will take the two proposals up in a meeting on Tuesday morning.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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