Significant Negative Impacts on the local community and environment include:
Architectural
- Significant conflict with the location’s current By-Law (from 11.5m in height to 29.5m in height)
- The location is outside of any designated ‘Urban Growth Centre’ areas
- 9-storey tower (or any high-rise development) would be completely out-of-character with nearby 1 to 3-storey buildings
- Creating a negative precedent for an unbalanced condo design in completely low-rise residential areas
- Setting precedence all along the east and west sides of Bathurst Street between Carscadden / Ellerslie and Sheppard (park areas). The playground at Ellerslie and Bathurst could be “next”
Environmental
- Increased levels of noise, CO2 emissions, air and light pollution. Site less than 100m from Carscadden Greenbelt; Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere from density intensification
- Increased accumulated shadowing (worst for 12 adjacent houses) and unpredictable negative impact from concrete massing and glass reflections. Detrimental reflections on people, greenery and wildlife
- Loss of numerous trees and “green space”
- Heavy earth disturbances during construction drilling for the 2‐level underground garage, extremely close to property lines – unpredictable consequences like foundation cracks of nearby houses, floodings and mudslides
- Loss of existing Wildlife, especially birds
Community
- Services and Utilities – strain on existing municipal infrastructure – sewerage and water supply will be overloaded with (not calculated quantitively) forthcoming new 26-storey building at 4926 Bathurst St.
- Dramatic negative impact on privacy, due to extremely minimal setbacks from property lines and overwhelming height to low grade properties
- Shadowing that will impact most all local residences beyond accepted standards
- Decrease in property resale values
Transportation
- Traffic and parking congestions, which will worsen an already significantly busy Bathurst Street
- Endangered resident safety on quiet local residential streets due to increased cut-through traffic (playground at Ellerslie St. and Bathurst St.)
- Pedestrian safety risk due to a narrow sidewalk in close proximity to the road because of insufficient setbacks
- Extremely dangerous and congested car entry off a 2-lane Bathurst St.
Wildlife
