The developments keep coming for London’s booming west end.

Three residential towers, a subdivision and a medical centre proposed in the west end are on the menu for city council’s planning committee Monday.

“We are under pressure to make sure lots are available to builders. Developers want to get out there and get going. It is booming right now,” said Allister MacLean, the city’s manager of development planning.

Hundreds of homes have been built in recent years where the new developments are proposed, and hundreds more are planned, he added.

The latest development proposals:

• 545 Fanshawe Park Rd. W.: York Developments wants to build two apartment towers, 16 and 17 storeys tall, a total of 286 residential units.
• 1198-1212 Commissioners Rd. W.: Tricar Group, seven-storey, 130-unit residential tower.
• 2500-2600 area of Tokala Trail: Claybar Developments Inc. (Auburn Developments), 17 single family homes in the Fanshawe Park and Hyde Park roads area, part of the Fox Hollow community.
• 2600 block of Tokala Trail: Horizon Medical, a related development, three-storey medical and dental centre.

“This is a substantial area as far as development goes,” said MacLean. “There is a lot of land that is approved now and ready for applications. It is the next big area.”

The twin towers proposed for 545 Fanshawe Park Rd. W. have raised concerns from Amica, a nearby retirement home at 517 Fanshawe Park Rd. W., over traffic and noise. Guests and visitors would also have to cross four lanes of busy traffic to turn left out of the home’s driveway.

“We feel compelled to note our overwhelming concern for the safety of our residents and the risk that this traffic site plan poses for all stakeholders of our community,” Jason Post, regional director for Amica, says in a letter to the committee.

“We do not believe traffic studies conducted were as comprehensive or as current as they should have been,” the letter aadds.

The city, York and Amica officials met in February with Coun. Josh Morgan.

“Amica reiterated their concern that the proposed access arrangement is unsafe and will lead to an increase of traffic-related accidents,” the report says. “Concerns were also expressed about the nuisance of construction (noise, dust, sidewalk conditions along Fanshawe Park Rd.).”

But city staff support the development in the report, saying steps can be taken, including a traffic light at the intersection and driveway in question out of Amica, to slow traffic flow. York also supplied Amica with traffic pattern studies to address concerns.

“York Developments also committed to holding pre-construction meetings with representatives from Amica as well as providing a central point of contact for issues, concerns or general queries during construction,” the report says.

As for the Claybar subdivision, Auburn sold off a portion of land to Horizon for the medical centre and wants to build the single-family homes on a strip of adjacent land.

“Horizon Medical will be in the front of this development, the residential is behind it,” said MacLean.

These proposals come in the wake of Sifton Properties planning more homes in its RiverBend development. In November Sifton got approval for the second phase of its RiverBend South development, which will bring more than 140 single-family homes and hundreds more apartment units or townhouses, to a 25-hectare piece of land at Commissioners Road and Westdel Bourne.

Last month Sifton also got approval for 36 single-family homes and 21 townhouses at 2120 Kains Rd., and 90 single-family homes at 1826 and 1854 Oxford St., west of Commissioners Rd.

There also are eight condominium units at 1170 Riverbend Rd.