Confusion Corner development plan includes robotic parking lot
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This article was published 15/06/2020 (1654 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A potential new development near Confusion Corner could be see the city’s first installation of a multi-level robotic parking lot.
The planned 15-storey, mixed-use building at 265 Osborne is immediately north of Osborne Rapid Transit Station on the west side of the street, immediately south of a fairly new seven-storey office building.
The development is being planned in two stages. The first phase, being seven storeys, was approved by the Board of Adjustment in December 2018. The second phase, floors eight to 15 of which would be for residential use, represents the first-ever proposed rezoning into Winnipeg’s Transit Oriented Development zoning district.
A 134-stall parking garage will take up floors two to five.
The parkade would automatically park the cars. Parkers drop their car at one of three ground-level entrance bays that contain sensors which match car sizes with stalls inside the garage. A machine delivers the car to an appropriate stall, and returns it to the driver at the bay entrance when required.
Robotic parking technology has been around for more than 10 years with installations in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.
The parking compliment would be 54 more than zoning regulations would require.
The developer is planning to have a restaurant on the first floor, an office and gym on floors six and seven and a roof deck on the seventh floor.
The proposed development would also contain 67 long-term and 32 short-term bike parking stalls for a total of 99 bike parking stalls.
The Urban Planning Division recommends approval of the zoning variance for the development.
City staff says it adheres to the Transit Oriented Development handbook in that there is transit frequency between five and 15 minutes, there will be mixed land use, although the density is slightly greater than the handbook calls for. The planning office recommends it because of its strong transportation linkage.