North Shore Outlook – North Vancouver city council green lights Harbourside OCP amendment.

In what’s becoming a weekly scene at city hall, residents once again filled council chambers Monday night to debate another contentious development project.

On the menu this week was Concert Properties’ and Knightsbridge Properties’ mixed-use community planned for the vacant waterfront lands on Harbourside Drive, just east of Bodwell High School.

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Often considered a bellwether of the overall residential market in Metro Vancouver, resales of Westside homes are definitively showing a slowdown. According to MLS statistics, with just 47 homes sold as of June 20, it is expected that June 2012 will conclude with below 100 sales. If it happens, it will be one of the slowest months in the past few years and the first June since 2000 to finish below 100 sales.

A rezoning public hearing has been scheduled for July 10, 2012 for a 10 storey, 89 unit Short Term Incentive for Rental (STIR) project by Cressey at 1388 Continental Street (Granville & Drake).  If approved the project will be 98.4 feet in height and have a Floor Space Ratio (FSR) of 6.99. The site, where the Maddox sales centre currently sits, has exposure to Granville Street as well as Rolston Crescent.

Richmond Review – Five high-rises eyed for Kiwanis Court lands.

 A senior falling through a water-damaged floorboard has “accelerated” a drive to relocate remaining Kiwanis Court residents as city council mulls a massive redevelopment plan for the Minoru Boulevard complex.

Just 69 of the 122 units at the half-century-old complex are still occupied, according to a new city staff report detailing a new five-tower proposal for the land bordering Minoru Park.

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Tsawwassen First Nation’s projects taking shape.

The much talked about major developments planned for the Tsawwassen First Nation are beginning to take shape.

A private groundbreaking ceremony was held last month to mark the beginning of a housing development called Tsawwassen Shores.