[PL1]

I may be unaware, but is this a bylaw for residential buildings to have all these pipes exposed right outside the building sidewalk? Is this written in law developers must absolutely do this? It’s beyond hideous and completely kills the streetscape experience and design. It’s like there’s zero interest in minimizing its present or improving the pedestrian experience in any way

I count three pressure release valves... I'm not in the gas industry, but I'm 100% positive they have to be outside.

Edit to add that I agreed it's not pretty, but safety trumps aesthetics

 

[DSCToronto]

They pulled in the gas train with some smaller pipe and an overhead elbow before increasing the lower pressure diameter pipe size. This allowed them to increase the usable sidewalk width.

I guess this is the permanent solution but hopefully not the final cosmetic finish.

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It APPEARS that the pipes and bollards (in particular) MAY have been pushed back so are no longer on City property but it does look ghastly. The regulations are NOT City regs, our condo building recently changed its emergency generator from diesel to gas. Enbridge insisted we get a new gas meter ($35K) and that it sit on a new concrete "step' ($10K) and they took 6+ months to do the work. It looks as though it was all constructed in beginners shop class and looks terrible but, fortunately, is at rear of building. Enbridge then screwed up on the meter exchange and instead of an exchange they cancelled our first account and then told us, several weeks later, that they had discovered we were being supplied with gas and did not have an account. (Really!) It finally got sorted out but it was an expensive and annoying experience.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

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[Tuscani01]

I may be unaware, but is this a bylaw for residential buildings to have all these pipes exposed right outside the building sidewalk? Is this written in law developers must absolutely do this? It’s beyond hideous and completely kills the streetscape experience and design. It’s like there’s zero interest in minimizing its present or improving the pedestrian experience in any way

It's not up to the city. Enbridge has final say. They want them exposed and above ground for ease of servicing.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...least it's no longer forcing pedestrians out in the road to get around it. And for what that's worth.