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8-18 Camden St. Application and Community Consultation

8/23/2023

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​The official application for 8-18 Camden is now available for viewing at https://www.toronto.ca/8camdenst

Register for the community consultation on the WebEx site. It takes place virtually on September 5th at 6 PM. That link can also be found at the City of Toronto Consultations Page.
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Community Consultation Meeting scheduled soon

8/15/2023

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​The City has received a Zoning By-law Amendment application at 8-18 Camden Street. The proposal is to permit a 19-storey mixed-use building containing 185 residential units and 308 square metres of retail space. With the recent changes in the legislation from Bill 109, application review timelines have shortened, but we want to ensure community engagement is not hindered due to that. We are currently in the process of scheduling the community consultation meeting (virtual) for September 5, 2023 from 6-7:30pm.

A final recommendation report, targeted for September 19, 2023 Toronto East-York Community Council, has since been cancelled.

Notice from:
Patricia Cho (she/her)
Planner, Community Planning
Toronto and East York District
T: 416-338-6697
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58.15 metres in height
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A Demolition Saga

11/11/2021

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I awoke on the morning of Saturday, August 28, 2021 to find dozens of unread emails on my iPhone.  Apparently major demolition activity was happening on Camden Street.  So I wrote to our Councillor’s office:
Are any of you in the know about activity this morning on Camden Street?  3 buildings (#8-18?) on the north side of the street and 2 buildings (#39-47?) on the south side are being demolished.
Nothing online about development applications.
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Please tell us these properties are destined to become parkettes
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8-18 Camden
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39-47 Camden
I received this response from Brent even though it was a Saturday:
I do see old demolition permits. This web tool can show where building permits and demolition permits have been applied for, but I find it is not very helpful on the details:
https://secure.toronto.ca/ApplicationStatus/setup.do?action=init.

A landowner can demolish a non-residential building as-of-right in Toronto, which means the demolition permits are practically automatically issued by staff as long as basic requirements are met. There is no circulation of the information to the local councillor or any opportunity to weigh in on it. But there are exceptions, including heritage protection. The HCD is supposed to stop any "Contributing" heritage buildings from being lost in this way.

From the web tool, it looks like the demolition application was submitted in 2016, before the HCD came into effect, and generally Provincial legislation doesn’t allow for heritage and planning protections to be applied retroactively.
The noise attracted attention from blogTO leading to THIS POSTING which identified the properties as belonging to Brad Lamb. 
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There were also lots of pictures submitted by contributors to Urban Toronto:
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8-18 Camden
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39-47 Camden
Because the permits were legitimate, demolitions proceeded and the sites are now flat vacant land. 
 
Plans for the 8-18 Camden sites are not available at this time.
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