Meeting on 13-storey Cliffside condo proposal slated for Scarborough Community Council on Sept. 19
A Public Meeting will be held by Scarborough Community Council on Thursday, Sept. 19, to discuss a proposal for a 13-storey residential building on Kingston Road in Cliffside.
The proposed condominium building, which will feature retail space on the ground floor, is planned for 2257 Kingston Rd. just west of Ridgemoor Avenue.
This site on the south side of Kingston Road, owned by Equiton Inc., is currently home to a one-storey shopping plaza and a two-storey non-residential building. The site of the development is just north of Cliffside Public School, and the proposed building’s main entrance will front on East Haven Drive.
The proposed development site takes in the shopping plaza starting at the Pony Mart, running eastward until Wholeness Massage Therapy at Ridgemoor Avenue.
The current development proposes a total gross floor area of 24,825.5 square metres, which includes 1,076 square metres of non-residential (commercial) gross floor area.
The proposed building will have 321 residential units, according to the latest version of the proposal from June of this year.
The breakdown of the residential units is 23 studios, 83 one-bedrooms, 68 one-bedrooms plus den, 78 two-bedrooms, 37 two-bedrooms plus den, 32 three-bedrooms and/or three-bedrooms plus den.
It will also include two levels of underground parking providing 202 vehicular spaces.
Two-hundred and sixty-eight bicycle parking spaces are also included in the development at grade and in the ground floor and first level of the underground space.
An artist’s conception of the building planned for 2257 Kingston Rd.
At the Sept. 19 meeting, which is slated for 9:30 a.m. in the Council Chambers at the Scarborough Civic Centre (150 Borough Dr.), members of Scarborough Community Council will receive input and review the proposal before making a recommendation on it that will be forwarded for consideration by full Toronto Council.
Anyone wishing to take part in the Sept. 19 meeting, or present information to it, is asked to take one of the following actions:
• To speak directly at the meeting, either in person or by phone or video conference, please register by email to scc@toronto.ca or by phone at 416-397-4579 no later than noon on Sept. 18. Those who register will be contacted with instructions on how to participate in the meeting.
• Comments on the proposal can also be emailed to scc@toronto.ca or sent by regular mail to City Clerk, Attention: Nancy Martins, Administrator, Scarborough Community Council, 100 Queen St. W., 2nd Floor, West Tower, Toronto, ON, M5H 2N2.
For more information on this proposal for 2257 Kingston Rd., please go to https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/application-details/?id=5204562&pid=695993&title=2257-KINGSTON-RD
