LNWY
1113 College St M6H 1B5 Toronto, ON, Canada

Just uploaded our latest active project to our website. Go to www.lnwy.ca and scroll down to see Bloorcourt Laneway House!

Well this is a nice way to end our week - a National Post article about laneway house development in Toronto, and it features Tom alongside some great laneway house advocates! It was published in the May 2nd edition. It's available to subscribers and those who purchase that day's edition via PressReader. Thanks, Matthew Hague!

We've added a new laneway house project to our roster! Visit www.lnwy.ca and scroll down to see the new addition: Parkdale Laneway House!

On The Danforth magazine is talking about Laneway Houses! This article features Christine and our Laneway Loft project! Great insight about the number and quality of laneways in Toronto's Danforth neighbourhood. The article also says that City Council will be voting on expanding the laneway suites program to Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough, however that has already happened. The program is applicable to all of Toronto (save a small zone in Rosedale/Yorkville).

Great news! In follow up from the case made to the OBCC by LGA architectural partners in December, the Commission has allowed their client to use automatic sprinklers in his laneway house project in order to get around the rule of 45m maximum distance to the street and 90m to a fire hydrant. This decision applies specifically to this project - for now. In about four months, the OBCC will issue an official written version of the decision. Once thats done, the City and the Fir...e Department need to sign a new memorandum of understanding. Only then can it be more widely applicable. In the meantime, this decision certainly helps as a positive precedent for other projects that are going through similar issues when making their case! Congratulations, LGA architectural partners! And great article, John Lorinc! (To read the full article you need to be a Globe and Mail subscriber. Also, our very own Tom is included in it!)

Big News! We just found out that the City has officially signed a policy that allows you to use space on your neighbour's property to qualify for the 1m side access requirement! It is still an "internal" policy, so we are waiting for official documentation to be released. As soon as it is, we will let you know! It will involve entering into a legal agreement with your neighbour and the City, which then gets registered on title. So, for all of you with 1m of space beside your house but it's not all within your own property lines, fear not! We will follow up again when we have all the information required for you to move forward with a laneway house!

Please consider showing your support alongside LGA architectural partners on December 12th as they make a case to the OBCC that will enable the Toronto laneway house program to really flourish. We are all so excited by the potential of the laneway house program, for its promise of increasing housing and healthy density in our growing city. We continue to meet so many keen and willing homeowners, but too many of their properties can't qualify, or if they seem to qualify there are conflicting rulings among the different regulatory bodies. We would like to see permitting processes that are more aligned with each other, more consistent, and more inclusive across our city. We hope to see you at the hearing on December 12th!

Watch Tom's presentation on Laneway Homes in Toronto: Live-streaming in 10 minutes!

Great news for the whole City of Toronto: Council has approved laneway suites across all of Toronto, and in all Residential (R) zones! We are hoping there will be no appeals and that the program expansion will proceed! Stay tuned!

Canadian Architect has written a State of the Nation article in the July issue. Each province has a dedicated section. Editor and writer Elsa Lam interviewed Christine about the role of Toronto's laneway housing in the future development of the city. Great work, Elsa!

Thank you, Spacing, for your latest issue about Laneways! We think everyone should pick this up today. There's so much great content! Once you have the magazine in front of you, check out the article on page 44 to see our co-founder Christine's thoughts about the programme and getting zoning approvals. Since she was interviewed, three of our projects have received their zoning clearance!

Thank you to all of you who've joined us today!

Welcome to LNWY! We are excited to be part of the Toronto laneway house movement! We believe laneway homes should be easy to build, affordable to operate, and delightful to live in. Visit our website to find out if your property can qualify for a laneway home! LNWY is an initiative of Solares Architecture Inc. We created LNWY to showcase our laneway house design service and expertise. Our team of architects and designers specializes in sustainable homes that are extremely energy efficient, affordable and beautiful. We work from start to finish: from the initial design, through navigating the process at city hall, to coordinating the entire construction process.