"...more than a quarter-century after amalgamation meant a city-wide solution couldn’t be found in the corner store debate."

"...with buildings up to six storeys, and local shops, while also studying the possibility of allowing “discreet opportunities for retail” along residential streets.

A similar patchwork of rules is emerging in Toronto, where divisions that linger..."

"Toronto is not the only city to make halting progress changing that. Vancouver approved this year a plan to allow small stores as part of development around a pair of transit stations. The city is now looking at how to create areas that mix moderate housing density,..."

For more examples and drawings, look at the “Prototypes” and “Pilot Projects” here www.singlestair.ca

...the connecting public corridor must reach both access to exit doors into each end of the scissor stairs - even when accounting for a door in the middle of the corridor to divide the floor areas served and be exempt from the typical 9.0m separation distance requirement.

Reading through the comments is fascinating, but one person claims that a scissor stair design would have been more efficient... That's incorrect, a scissor stair version actually uses more area than two separate switchback stairs for this particular scenario, because...

Clear comparison of scissor and single stair plans here under prototypes - www.singlestair.ca

There are healthy limits to free advice, suggest you contact a company like Savaria to discuss.

This building has a LULA small elevator, the report you screenshotted is referring to stretcher-size requirements that are not applicable when the code exception for “limited-use/limited-application” elevators is used.

The project is described in more detail here - singlestair.ca/Office-Ou

A few more renderings, diagrams and the typical floor plan!

To see all the drawings and other submissions, check out - urbanarium.org/decoding-tim...

Floor plans available anywhere?