The City’s first ever development application is being made under the new RM-9 zoning that was implemented by the Marpole Community Plan earlier this year.

Formwerks Architectural is proposing to construct one 3-storey and two 4-storey stacked townhome development with a total of 19 residential units above 27 underground parking spaces. The application is conditional under the RM-9 zoning. The site, located at 332-356 West 62nd Avenue is 15,746 SF in size and features courtyard townhomes and stacked townhomes with a 24 ft. courtyard in between.

There will be a variety of 2-bedroom ground oriented units, with some 2 and 3-bedroom townhouse units ranging from 1,062 to 1,868 SF

By ChangingCity

This Downtown Eastside rezoning project on East Hastings was first mentioned here at the end of 2012. The original rezoning version was designed by Perkins + Will for the Atira Development Society, with two floors of commercial space and twelve of residential above that. The housing mix was complex; there were 169 units with a mix of self-contained rental units; Housing Income Limits units and affordable home ownership units, some guaranteed as rental units for a minimum of 15 years. That’s the render of the first version below.

Now that the rezoning has been approved there’s a revised version submitted for a Development Permit with a new design by IBI Group. The deign has a more glazed appearance, and it now includes 198 units, still maintaining a mix of market and non-market housing over retail. It was given unanimous support by the Urban Design Panel.

It sits next door to the Lux, a BC Housing funded scheme completed in 2009 and designed by GBL. It will replace a modest 3 storey building, best known as the recent home of United We Can which has moved to the False Creek Flats.

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Source: Changing City