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Ottawa’s student-housing construction boom shows no sign of retreat as plans for a 12-storey development on Bronson Avenue will be considered by the planning committee next week.

Textbook Suites wants to build 172 bachelor, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for university students at 774 Bronson Ave., just south of Carling Avenue.

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The 3,549-square-metre lot — about a kilometre north of Carleton University — has frontage on both Bronson and Cambridge Street South. Plans call for the west side of the building off Cambridge to incorporate setbacks at the fifth, eighth, 10th and 12th storeys to concentrate the density on the Bronson side.

The proposal comes less than a year after council approved Textbook’s plan to build 275 units for students in two 26-storey towers at 256 Rideau St. and 211 Besserer St.

The city previously approved a spot-zoning amendment at the latest location for a 12-storey condominium building along Bronson and a six-storey condo building along Cambridge Street South, but ownership of the lands has since changed and Textbook is proposing a different development.