There has been an application filed to build a seven storey condominium on the site of the old Postal Station R at the address known as 2 Laird Drive. Members of the community are messaging as many people as they can to organize resistance to this development, one which they say is not at all in keeping with the neighborhood. An approval would change the zoning from Commercial to Residential, Multiple Dwellings. The permitted height would go from 12.2 metres (40 feet) to 26.4 metres (86.6 feet). The sense of emails zooming around Leaside tonight is that anyone who wishes to stop this development should contact the Councillor, Mr Parker, as soon as possible. The now vacant building which for nearly 50 years housed Postal Station R at 2 Laird Drive was sold for $3,050,000, according to land registry records. The new registered was KCAP Laird Inc It is a statement on our history that the property in question was purchased by the government in 1959 for $115,000. All posts on this subject.
Thanks for posting. Not sure why the neighbourhood would stand for a building twice the height of any existing residential building in the vicinity. Hopefully everybody emails/calls/writes Mr. Parker. If it can happen on 2 Laird, that sets precedent for our whole neighbourhood. I oppose such a tall, dense residential building in Leaside.