Transit oriented development at Pape Station - link to a summary by more transit southern Ontario.
• great street approach with mid block connections and active frontages
• architecturally it’s a nice rational design. Nothing flashy, just a solid residential building.
It’s a huge improvement over the existing, but our approach to TOD as a city doesn’t go far enough👇
Simply put, it isn’t dense enough, and has no office component. Other TODs along the Ontario Line have far more density proposed, like Thorncliffe Park, Don Mills/Eglinton, East Harbour.
This is the future interchange between two major lines. We should be seeing Yonge-Eglinton-Yonge level density here.
I would like to see Ontario/Toronto follow BC’s example and allow density as of right near transit stations.
8 stories blue area
12 stories pink area
20 stories green area
This is what we should be striving for.
Michael | makingarchitecture