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Motion to refer to proposal back to the developer and admin for rework passed 8-5. The motion instructs them to fix the sightlines and stepbacks with the towers to conform to the Large Site Infill Guidelines, to fix the parkade/pedestrian interfaces on 93 Ave., and to submit the proposal to EDC for review.
 
@archited I don't tend to think of it as "winning" so much as "helping steer the city to do the right thing" when it comes to sorting out and following its own policies, on good design and good urbanism, and trying to establish better processes for community engagement.
 
Regency is behind the tower on Jasper that was controversial as well? Perhaps, they simply need to revisit how they do engagement too or look at how they incorporate feedback. It would seem that some companies are better than others.
 
Edmonton city council sends Holyrood Gardens proposal back to developer for more work
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The Holyrood Gardens development is planned along 85 Street between 90 Avenue and 95 Avenue.
Kim Smith, Global News

Edmonton city councillors have said no to a developer’s current proposal for a massive apartment and townhouse development along the Valley Line LRT.

With an 8-5 vote on Monday, the proposed towers at Holyrood Gardens, next door to single-family homes across a laneway, were rejected.

“We have two sets of guidelines, neither of which we followed,” complained Councillor Ben Henderson, who led the referral motion to have Regency Developments work some more with city planning staff.

The proposed 1,200-unit development is planned along 85 Street between 90 Avenue and 95 Avenue. Its shape – long and narrow – has posed some design problems.

Henderson said his biggest worry is the precedent the project would set for other large-scale and transit-oriented developments (TOD) in the coming years.

“We made a number of commitments to all of our communities, not just this one, through what we said a neighbourhood stop would look like, for what we said the transitions would look like on large-site developments that we’re not adhering to in here.”

Mayor Don Iveson said that from now on, the planning department for TOD and large-scale projects will as a matter of practice run everything through the city’s design committee to make sure they’re suitable.

“I think there were some process issues with how this unfolded and some real design issues with how height, and particularly, fairly blocky height of these very, very wide towers was going to hit the adjacent neighbourhoods, literally across the lane and across the street.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/3884280/...-holyrood-gardens-project-back-for-more-work/

Edmonton council votes to reconsider Holyrood development
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A developer wants to put a combination of seven medium-rise and hi-rise buildings at the Holyrood Gardens site in southeast Edmonton. (City of Edmonton)

Edmonton city council has voted to defer its decision on a major development in the Holyrood neighbourhood.

Council voted 8-5 Monday in favour of referring the Holyrood Gardens redevelopment plan back to staff for further study.

Coun. Andrew Knack said the redevelopment plan was sent back to study "specific issues" including mitigating traffic impacts, reconsidering building heights and incorporating existing homes into the new development.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/council-votes-study-holyrood-1.4422286

Council sends Holyrood Gardens back to drawing board
 
Scratch that previous post; DER is still very much involved.

EDC Pre-Consult on May 1:

D. UPCOMING APPLICATIONS, CONFLICTS AND REGRETS (May 1, 2018)
Holyrood Master Plan - Pre-consultation - Jimmy Amichandwala - Der Architects
https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/EdmontonDesignCommitee_April_17_2018_Agenda.pdf

Our committee has been working with the developer, planners, architects, and neighbourhood stakeholders quite a bit recently. We're hoping we've given them some good ideas to take forward for the next proposal round.
 
Our committee met with the developer last night to go over some of the changes they've made. They made some really good changes to the design, and a better commitment to family housing. There are some new tradeoffs, though, that will be a hard sell for the community. I won't go into too much detail just yet, as plans will no doubt change at least once more after their EDC review and the open house next week. I'll post more from those events.
 
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