Amacon‘s formal rezoning application has been submitted to the City of Vancouver for a 24,289  SF land assembly at Robson between Cambie and Beatty that includes the Catholic Charities Men’s Hostel and the commercial building at 118 Robson Street (home to the bar/restaurant now known as ‘Back Forty’).

The plan calls for rezoning from DD to CD-1 to redevelop the site with a 29-storey mixed-use development and 6-storey podium, including:

• Retention and restoration of the existing Northern Electric Building facade;
• Hotel, commercial and residential uses, including 131 residential units;
• 42 one-bedroom units, 71 two-bedrooms and 18 three-bedrooms;
• Five levels of underground parking
• A total density of 10.08 FSR; and
• A building height of 290 ft.

The application describes the design rationale:

New shelter space will be provided for the existing Catholic Charities shelter, as part of the agreement between the developer and Catholic Charities. This rezoning application is being considered under the Rezoning Policy for the Central Business District (CBD) and CBD Shoulder.

The architect for the project is GBL Architecture.

Citimark has submitted a rezoning application and OCP amendment to redevelop an 8-lot single family land assembly in the Lower Capilano area of North Vancouver. The lots are located at 1886 -1956 Belle Isle Place and 2046 Curling Road, just North of Larco’s large rental development, now under construction.

The area, now called Lions Gate Village Centre, was redesignated by the District of North Vancouver in 2015 to allow for townhouse uses, and this project is the 2nd to go before council, following PC Urban who recently applied for 23 units just up the street on Glenaire Drive.

The plan is for a townhouse development that includes:

• 88 three-storey townhouses in ten separate buildings
• a density of 1.20 FSR
• a building height of 41 feet
• 163 underground parking stalls
• a community amenity contribution of $324,071
• expansion and improvement of Belle Isle Park.

The owners of a 1.7 acre site in the Maplewood Village area of North Vancouver have submitted a rezoning application and OCP amendment to redevelop the existing property, known as Maplewood Plaza.

The site is currently built as a smaller mixed use commercial plaza with two commercial spaces and 28 rental units. The site is designated Commercial Mixed Use Level 1  in the OCP which allows for densities up to 1.75 FSR. The proposed OCP amendment would change the designation for these two properties to Commercial Mixed Use Level 2 which allows for densities up to 2.50 FSR.

The proposed redevelopment is for two 6-storey buildings, including:   

• 193 units (21 townhouses and 172 lowrise units)
• 38 rental units
• 85 one-bedrooms, 99 two-bedrooms and 9 three-bedrooms
• 10,743 SF of retail space
• a total density of 2.49 FSR
• 255 underground parking stalls on two levels
• $200,000 voluntary CAC payment

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill.