How these Toronto developers got a 3-storey rental building past yellowbelt zoning rules

 

Renderings for a purpose-built rental apartment building at 1103 Dufferin St., which will contain eight units.

TORONTO STAR

Donovan Vincent

It won’t completely solve Toronto’s housing shortage, but experts are calling a successful “gentle density” project in the Dufferin-Bloor area a step in the right direction.

Kevin Andrade, Nuno Nascimento and Nuno Paul, owners of Dufferin Lane Investments, recently won approval from Toronto’s committee of adjustment to build a three-storey building containing eight rental apartments on a site currently occupied by a detached single-family home.

David Sajecki, a partner with Sajecki Planning, the urban and regional planning firm that worked on the project, outlined the variances the development team sought — and won.

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