Custom home builder and renovation contractor in Etobicoke
Etobicoke runs from the Kingsway's brick two-storeys to the postwar bungalows of Alderwood and Humber Valley, most of them on lots wide enough to work from the driveway. That mix produces two kinds of jobs: additions and second storeys on houses worth keeping, and custom homes where a 1950s bungalow has run its course.
Etobicoke, on the ground.
The Humber and Mimico Creek carve through the borough, so ravine lots and floodplain edges are common. Those lots bring the conservation authority into the permit, and they also shape what an addition can do: how far back it can go, what can be removed, how the grade is handled.
Etobicoke has been part of the City of Toronto since 1998, and Toronto Building issues the permit. The zoning envelope on a given street tells us what the lot will take, and the site walk tells us what the house will take. Both come before the drawings are final.
City of Toronto
Toronto Building issues the permit; lots along the Humber and Mimico Creek add a conservation authority review first. [Link to the Etobicoke building permit page and typical processing time.]
What the lots allow
Etobicoke is Kingsway brick two-storeys and postwar bungalows in Alderwood, Humber Valley and Islington, most on lots wide enough to work from the driveway.
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[Kam confirms how many Savino projects have been built in Etobicoke and which ones can be shown.]
Eight jobs, one crew.
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Usually. The 1950s bungalows in Alderwood, Humber Valley and Islington were built on foundations that often carry a second floor with reinforcement at the corners, and the lots have the width to crane the trusses in. The engineer confirms it from a test pit before drawings.
The City of Toronto, through Toronto Building. Etobicoke has had no separate office since 1998.
If the lot is inside the conservation authority's regulated area, its review comes before the permit and sets the limits on what can be built and where. We check the mapping at the zoning stage.
A Etobicoke job starts with a site walk.
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