When is a monsterhome a multiplex?

by Shane Dingman

An image from a planning document shows the layout for 162 Arlington Ave. The plans show a three-storey home on a narrow lot with an apartment tucked into the rear half of the basement. It was approved as a duplex with minor revisions by the Committee of Adjustment.

The City of Toronto’s multiplex bylaw was designed to increase the city’s stock of affordable housing, but critics say some builders are “weaponizing” the rules to build even larger luxury “monster homes.”

In September, local planning expert Blair Scorgie of the Scorgie Planning consulting firm warned the city’s Committee of Adjustment that its rules were twisted into absurdity ahead of a September hearing about a luxury home redevelopment at 162 Arlington Ave.

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