Leaside home with “carport laneway house” goes on market at $3.988M
From Toronto Life: House of the Week: $4 million for a Leaside home with eight bathrooms and a laneway suite The 4,000-square-foot fortress also comes with a sauna, a rec …
Anatomy of the perfect corner garden suite lot
We’ve talked in the past about how perfect some lots are for garden suites. HERE, HERE and HERE, just for example. Lots that occupy a corner location. Here’s the perfect lot: Even after adding …
Garden suites for CORNER LOTS
Corner lots might be the big winner for garden suites. In many cases, on corner lots the garden suite can be aligned to face the side street. This provides an …
A hard road to adding gentle density to increase Toronto’s housing supply
From the Globe and Mail: Architects and contractors who have cobbled together a portfolio of laneway suite projects in the past few years are discovering that building garden suites – …
What you need to know about Toronto’s new housing plan — and how it might affect your options
Motion calling on staff to draft 2023 ‘housing action plan’ goes to city council Wednesday From CBC: Toronto’s mayor announced a sweeping plan last week to help tackle the city’s …
Prefab ADU Guide for (USA) Homeowners: Accessory Dwelling Units Explained
From fieldmag.com: A higher cost of living, limited housing, the undisputed need for a quiet home office or a private pad for visitors—the list of reasons why the modern homeowner …
60 garden suite projects are now underway in Toronto
60! This week we hit 60 building permit applications in at City Hall for garden suites in Toronto. That’s a fairly high pace, considering the program only emerged from an …
Ward 19 (Beaches-East York) homeowners get a great bonus with garden suite size, height, and lot coverage
When the new Toronto garden suite program was approved back in early 2022, one truly exciting feature was overlooked by many. Likely because it only applies to a small part …
Meet the Toronto garages that are being converted to garden suites
We track both garden suite and laneway house building permit applications, through information publicly available to us from City Hall. A surprising number of the applications are garage conversions. And from …
Etobicoke corner unit property to convert garage upper floor to garden suite
Just in at City Hall, this Scarlett Road property has applied for a conversion. The existing garage will be converted so that the upper unit is a legal garden suite. …