City staff are recommending council's approval of a pair of new condo/stacked townhouse developments, one on Beechwood Avenue and the other on Huron Street.
The recommendations go to council at its committee of the whole meeting Jan. 28.
The first, a development slated for 89 Beechwood Ave. that has undergone several revisions.
Granite Homes has spent two years tinkering a proposal for the former home of the Guelph Optimist Club, just north of Waterloo Avenue.
It started out as 34 townhomes - 12 stacked and 22 clustered.
The local neighbourhood group expressed concerns about the height and size of the buildings, about sightlines to the adjacent Howitt Park being blocked and about parking.
So Granite came back with a second proposal of 23 units: seven two-storey townhouses and 16 stacked townhouses.
The neighbourhood group still had some concerns and council sent it back to staff for further discussion last September.
The plan staff is now recommending move ahead has one less townhouse than before, improved sitelines to Howitt Park, has decreased the height of the stacked townhouses from three storeys to two and moved those taller buildings to the south side of the property.
The development, if approved, would garner the city $495,638 in development charges and annual property taxes of $66,000.
The development at 120-122 Huron St. involves turning an old four-storey factory into 87 condos and adding 59 cluster townhouses beside it.
The developer, GSP Group, initially asked for 86 condos and a combination of 96 stacked townhouses and cluster townhouses. They have since dropped plans for the stacked townhouses.
The exact location is on a 2.5-hectare lot on the southeast corner of Huron and Alice streets in The Ward neighbourhood.
The development, if approved, would garner the city $2.74 million in development charges and $488,000 annually in property taxes.
