6-Storey Micro Dwelling Building Proposed for Main Street
A development application has been submitted for a vacant parking lot site on the East side of Main Street between Powell and Alexander Street. The site at 138 Main Street, is zoned DEOD and is 6,000 SF in size.
The plan calls for a 6-storey micro-dwelling building under the City’s Social Housing or Rental Tenure (SHORT) program, which was launched in 2017 and is a pilot program with a target of 1,700 affordable housing units.
The developer is the Anhart Foundation, which acquired the site in 2018. The project, entitled Jubilee 2, will be the first of Anhart’s privately developed affordable housing under this model and will replace the Jubilee rooms which they sold in 2017.
Details of the proposal include:
- 70 micro dwelling units (28 market rental & 42 social housing units;
- Units range in size from 250 to 320 SF;
- retail at grade;
- a shared lounge and roof deck;
- a building height of 75 feet;
- a total density of 5.1 FSR;
- no vehicle parking spaces.
Under the site’s existing DEOD zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Development Permit Board.
The SHORT application process is aptly named as it’s goal is to cut the permitting time in half compared to a regular development application. (12 weeks for development permit).
The architect for the project is Birmingham and Wood Architects .
The site sold in 2018 for $4,250,000, or $139 per buildable SF based on the application.