DA/1835/2016 for a Mixed Use Development at Brighton Avenue / Wharf Street, Toronto.
A SEPP 65 Urban Design Review Panel meeting was held on 13 September 2017 and made the following recommendations.The site is an important and significant one in the township of Toronto and beyond, and is visible both within the heritage context of the township, and more broadly from many locations on and around the Lake. It represents the most easterly extent of commercial development within the town centre, and offers an outstanding ongoing opportunity to contribute to the vitality and economic viability of the area. As such, it is considered important that the Wharf Road ground level be an activated commercial frontage.
The Panel suggests that in Council’s future planning for this locality, consideration might be given to public domain improvements to Wharf Road and Edward Gain Park that better integrate the main village centre with this ‘dislocated’ part of the business zone and to the adjoining waterfront and marina.
The Analysis provided by the applicant is of assistance in considering the proposed heights of the development, and in identifying the strategy of separating Building A from the eastern Buildings B and C, in order to share views and reduce visual bulk. This strategy is supported, but its execution needs reinforcing substantially via a greater separation between the forms as outlined above. Likewise, greater physical separation and usefully-scaled deep-soil landscaping is required to assist in the interface between the residential dwellings to the east and the subject Business-zoned site.
The Panel considered principally the siting and massing of the buildings. It did not provide specific comment on the architecture. Subject to the comments above the scheme should be further developed. This should include levels of the adjoining residential zoned lands and cross sections showing built form relationship and separation and a broader setback analysis.
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