Therme, the Austrian company behind the plan, is tweaking its design to address some of the city’s concerns
The province’s planned private-sector spa and waterpark at Ontario Place is too large and its proposed five-level underground parking garage contradicts the government’s own policies on reducing car use, City of Toronto planners say.from the city, released Friday, finds a long list of faults in the province’s plan.
as Toronto’s mayor earlier this year after acknowledging an affair with a staffer, some of the candidates vying to replace him have come out against the plan. The city’s planning report says Therme’s proposed entry pavilion and attached enclosed bridge, which would allow customers to walk across the water to the island waterpark, would block “heritage views” of Ontario Place’s giant golf-ball-like Cinesphere and its “pods,” futuristic structures identified with the site since it first opened in 1971.
The report says the facility is not far from transit links, including the province’s future Ontario Line subway, yet the proposal includes a large underground parking garage and a surface lot with another 650 spots. This fails to meet the province’s own planning objective of “transit-supportive” development, the report says.
Therme also says it will shrink its main structure by three to five metres on its north side to allow for wider public pathways. And it is “working on finding opportunities” to make the towering spa building itself shorter.
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