{"id":37414,"date":"2025-12-23T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=37414"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:06:15","slug":"next-steps-approved-for-114-stacked-townhouses-on-wellington-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/next-steps-approved-for-114-stacked-townhouses-on-wellington-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Next steps approved for 114 stacked townhouses on Wellington Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plans for 114 new townhouses on Wellington Street West moved forward to the next level at Council this month as lawmakers approved Zoning and Official Plan amendments for 511, 521, 531, and 543 Wellington Street West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The housing units, once built, will be back-to-back stacked townhomes divided over four blocks. Initially planned to be a 116-unit development when it first came before Council in January, the plans had been somewhat reduced by the time a revised proposal was submitted at Town Hall in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA total of 166 parking spaces \u2013 137 for residents and 23 for visitors \u2013 are proposed to be underground,\u201d noted staff in the report before Council. \u201cAccess to the underground parking area is proposed at the southerly boundary of the development limits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposed setback adjustments put forward are \u201cdesigned to balance a compact, pedestrian-friendly townhouse form with adequate privacy, landscaping, and functional space. The front yard setback is reduced from 7.5 metres to 2.2 metres along Wellington Street West. This creates a more engaging streetscape, encouraging walking and active transportation, while still providing space for landscaping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Council ultimately approved the Zoning and Official Plan amendments, Ward 3 Councillor Wendy Gaertner stated that while the developer had made \u201cchanges for the good\u201d since they were last before Council, it didn\u2019t quite hit the mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think this is just too dense,\u201d she said.  \u201cThere\u2019s no affordable housing included in this. Maybe that would be a saving grace. It says in the report that the applicant will work with staff through the Site Plan process to explore options and strategies to support the Town\u2019s affordable housing goals. That\u2019s never worked in the past. We\u2019ve had lots of opportunities with developers. We [even] had incentives at one point in the planning act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too dense with respect to what their neighbours are. I think it\u2019s too dense for the [Oak Ridges Moraine]. The Moraine is precious, and I think we have to err on the side of what would be best for it, and I don\u2019t think a housing development this dense is appropriate, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s appropriate for what we see in the neighbourhood at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plans for 114 new townhouses on Wellington Street West moved forward to the next level at Council this month as lawmakers approved Zoning and Official Plan amendments for 511, 521, 531, and 543 Wellington Street West. The housing units, once built, will be back-to-back stacked townhomes divided over four blocks. Initially planned to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-9Js","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:42:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37415,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37414\/revisions\/37415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}