35-Unit Apartment Building Planned for Central Lonsdale
Belaire Apartments Ltd., the owners of an existing 3-storey lowrise apartment building in North Vancouver, are planning a replacement of the building with a new, larger rental apartment building.
The subject site is located in the Central Lonsdale neighbourhood at the south west corner of Chesterfield Avenue and 16th Street. The site currently contains a 13-unit rental apartment building. The 10,400 SF site is located in an area of mainly three storey apartment buildings, with most of them built in the late 1960’s to mid – 1970’s, and are a mix of rental and strata dwellings.
The proposal is for a new 5-storey rental apartment building that includes:
- 34 apartment units
- 18 one-bedrooms, 13 two-bedrooms and 3 three-bedrooms
- a total density of 2.50 FSR
- 17 underground parking stalls
- 51 bicycle stalls
The OCP land use designation of the site is Residential Level 5, which allows for a medium density multi-family up to a maximum density of 1.6 FSR, with the potential of a 1.0 FSR bonus density to be granted at Council’s discretion. The applicant is requesting a bonus be granted to 2.50 FSR with all the proposed units being rental and secured through a rental Housing Agreement.
The architect for the project is Gateway Architecture.