Townline Homes has applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone the Quality Inn site at 1335 Howe Street from DD to CD-1 to permit a 40-storey residential building and includes:

• a density of 11.2 FSR
• 389 market condo units
• a 378 ft. tower with a 7-storey podium (height limited by view cone)
• 24,000 SF of transferred heritage density
• Average 6,500 SF tower floorplate
• a 37-space childcare facility

Policies allowing rezoning include: Vancouver’s Downtown Capacity Review Study, Green Buildings Policy for Rezonings and the Downtown Official Development Plan.

The site made headlines in 2014 as it was announced that the building would be operated as temporary homeless housing. Information on the current shelter facility can be found here.

Pinnacle International has applied to amend the existing CD-1 zoning for a site it owns and currently houses a presentation centre but has not yet developed at 2-26 East 1st Avenue, at the corner of Ontario Street near the Olympic Village area of Southeast False Creek. The proposal is for an 18-storey building that includes:

• 137 residential units;
• a density of 6.98 FSR
• 162 underground parking spaces.

The site was originally rezoned in 2006. This application is being considered under the Southeast False Creek Official Development Plan, Southeast False Creek Design Guidelines for Additional Penthouse Storeys, and Comprehensive Development District CD-1 (464).