An open meeting for residents of Leaside will begin this evening at 6.15 tonight (April 30, 2012) at the Leaside Public Library. It’s all about the contentious application to build a seven storey condominium on the site of the now closed Postal Station R at the corner of Millwood Rd and Malcolm Rd. Artists concept from the developer Knightstone Capital at right. Members of the Leaside Property Owners Association and Councillor Parker will be present this evening to review the rezoning application filed by the developer. The following is a previous post on this subject: 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 registrant 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.
