Guelphissauga #9: Townhouses Replacing Speedvale Church

The Fellowship of Guelphissauga continues after heavy rains ravaged the old growth trees in Exhibition Park. Open blue skies and meaningful double rainbows now fill the Shire as the Fellowship cleans up the broken branches following their revision of the Rules of the Ward during the storm. The rainstorm also gave the Property Developer Orcs enough time to regroup from the defeat of the Tower of Sauron and collect a small army. They are now back at the Shire's gates with a proposal for building a townhouse complex in the northern Shire to expand on their small network of NIMBY Camps. Will their more reasonable proposal get approved?

This time around the Fellowship faces off with a familiar army called the Masked Marann Orcs. Having been through the Shire's gates before, these PD Orcs mask themselves in their legal numerical name called 2601265 Ontario Inc. The Masked Orcs have built similar Townhouse NIMBY Camps in the Shire before, such as a 3-storey building on Guelphissauga Road near Clairfield. This experience gave them the foresight to obey the 6-Storey Rule of the Ward, allowing them easy access through the Shire's gates in order to table their 3-storey building proposal.

The proposed site for the new Townhouse NIMBY Camp is at 520 Speedvale, which is the current location of St. David & St. Patrick Anglican church. The Anglicans have left the land vacant since 2015 with rumors of a termite infestation stopping their return. The Masked Orcs are proposing to build four blocks of 64 back-to-back stacked townhouses on the two-acre site. With an additional 84 parking spaces also planned, 68 of the lot's current 96 trees would be removed. The Masked Orcs are also seeking to change the site's density limit to pack all the townhouses into the NIMBY campsite.
The current Ward Rules allows for 35 units per hectare, whereas the Masked Orcs are seeking 80 units per hectare which is more than double the density of the surrounding residential lots.

What do you think?

Will you miss St Patrick's church and 68 trees?

Is a Townhouse NIMBY Camp more reasonable than the Double Trouble Towers?

How will James Gordon & Rodrigo Goller treat a decision with a long term direct impact on Ward 2?

Have you seen any termites in town?