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.

Marcon has applied to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop a 19,671 SF, RM-9 zoned three-lot assembly on West 63rd Avenue, just East of Cambie Street. The plans for this site is a new 4-storey condo building, including:

• 33 units
• 7-one bedrooms, 22 two-bedrooms and 4 three-bedrooms
• a total density of 2.0 FSR
• 2 levels of underground parking accessed from the lane.

The single family assembly was rezoned under the Marpole Community Plan in 2014 and so only requires development permit approval.

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill.

The full development application can be viewed here: http://development.vancouver.ca/pc460w63rd/index.htm

An application has been submitted to the City of New Westminster to amend the Official Community Plan and rezone a site at 1102-1122 Salter Street in Queensborough. The area is currently zoned and primarily developed for single family use, and this lot could be built under existing zoning for 30 houses, or rezoned under the OCP for 50 houses.

The OCP amendment is being sought to allow the development of 78 units on this 5.1 acre site, including:

• nine duplex dwellings (18 units)
• 14 row houses
• 10 compact lot houses (3,600-3,800 SF lot)
• 36 townhouses
• total density of 0.85 FSR
• secondary suites not allowed
• land dedication on the foreshore for extension of Queensbourough Permiter Trail

The architect for the project is Bernard Decosse.