Stephen G. King Architect

05/12/2025

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/ford-governments-new-housing-bill-impact-toronto-inclusionary-zoning-green-standard-10649643

Mayor Olivia Chow will have more flexibility to adjust development charges — but cuts to green standards and affordable housing rules might meet pushback at city hall

09/26/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/wXcJbZkNSXbXx7Hs/?mibextid=WC7FNe

The City of Toronto is exploring opportunities to introduce more low-rise housing in Toronto’s residential neighbourhoods as part of the Expanding Housing Options in Neighborhoods Initiative (EHON).

07/06/2022

https://storeys.com/green-light-toronto-garden-suites/?fbclid=IwAR05iTEZKxiGgAb7xssZXyBP3mki0YIjPHnTt-NCRtfFMwKYjivcO2YjTRI&fs=e&s=cl

It looks like Toronto garden suites have the green light after all, after the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) dismissed a recent appeal.

02/03/2022

https://www.facebook.com/100044325435239/posts/478833160270861/?d=n

Council expanded permissions to allow residents to build garden suites on residential properties in the city.

Garden suites is one of the many innovative initiatives in Toronto that will help expand affordable housing options in the city.

07/30/2021

Winter Stations along Woodbine Beach has become Summer Stations in the Beach. The transition began this week when the Arc de Blob art installation made its appearance on Queen Street East at the entrance to the Beach’s Kew Gardens park. The installation is a joint effort by an Austrian and British...

04/26/2021

Recently completed contemporary house project in the GTA.
Services included programming, design, Committee of Adjustment and permit approvals, engineering coordination,
project management

04/15/2021

https://www.constructioncanada.net/historic-ontario-covered-bridge-receiving-6-25-m-for-rehabilitation/

A historic Waterloo, Ont., bridge is among 10 infrastructure projects receiving joint government funding in southwestern Ontario.

03/24/2021

Article on Laneway Housing in Toronto.
One of my professors at U of T Jeffrey Stinson built one of the first laneway houses in Kensington Market. The City is also looking at allowing Garden Suites as secondary residential spaces on Toronto lots.

Not long ago, laneway homes were non-starters, but recent shifts have made them viable

01/30/2021

City of Toronto to study ways of providing more needed housing types in the Beaches

By ALI RAZA, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Beaches-East York has been chosen as the location of a new housing pilot project aimed at expanding affordable housing options or the “missing middle” in the City of Toronto. The “missing middle” is a term used by municipalities and developer...

11/26/2020

Recently Committee of Adjustment approved project in the Beaches area of Toronto to convert a 4-plex constructed in approximately 1927 into a 6-plex apartment building

11/01/2020

Something to look forward to post COVID !

Music fans were pretty crushed when Toronto's 126-year-old Massey Hall, long overdue for a facelift, closed its doors to the public in July 2018 to...