Vaughan Design Review Panel Agenda

NRU
Nov. 29, 2071

The Design Review Panel will consider the following items at its meeting Thursday, November 30 at 9:00 a.m. in committee room 243, city hall. 

Presentations 

9:30 a .m. 
Indigo Phase III, Condominiums in Maple—The panel will undertake its first review of phase 3 of Pemberton Group’s Indigo Condominiums located on Eagle Rock Way within the Maple GO Station Secondary Plan area. The proposal comprises a 16-storey residential building with a seven-storey podium. Presentations will be made by Vaughan urban designer Shahrzad Strike, Quadrangle Architects principal Les Klein, and KLM Planning Partners partner Ryan Mino. 

10:55 a.m. 
Expo City Tower 5, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre—The panel will undertake its first review of the fifth proposed high-rise residential tower for Cortel Group’s Expo City development located at the northwest corner of Maplecrete Road and Highway 7 in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The proposal incorporates a 61-storey residential tower integrated with retail and cultural uses in the podium. Presentations will be made by Vaughan VMC project manager Amy Roots, Quadrangle Architects executive principal Richard Witt, and DTAH partner James Roche. 

12:25 p.m.
Transit City Tower 3—The panel will undertake its second review of the third proposed high-rise residential tower for SmartREIT’s Transit City development located at the southwest corner of Millway Avenue and Portage Parkway in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The proposal incorporates a 55-storey residential tower integrated with a six-storey parking structure and at-grade retail uses. Presentations will be made by VMC project manager Amy Roots, and Diamond Schmitt Architects principal Donald Schmitt.

1:45 p.m.
Liberty Highway 7 + Maplecrete mixed-use development—The panel will undertake its first review of the Liberty Developments’ high-rise mixed-use development locatedat the southeast corner of Maplecrete Road and Highway 7 in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The proposal incorporates two high-rise residential towers at 38 and 32 storeys, integrated with atgrade retail uses, as well as an eight-storey mid-rise residential building. Presentations will be made by Vaughan urban designer Shahrzad Strike, Dialog principal Simon Ko, and Land Art Design principal Jackie VanderVelde.