Onni has submitted concurrent rezoning applications for two sites located in the Downtown Eastside Area Plan. The concurrent applications allow Onni to consolidate the 20% social housing requirement of both sites onto one site.
The two sites/applications are summarized as follows:
1220-1298 East Hastings Street
This site is located at the Southwest corner of East Hastings Street and Clark Drive. The proposal for the 31,024 SF M-1 zoned site at 1220-1298 East Hastings Street is to rezone to allow three buildings – two 11-storey condo buildings and an 8-storey social housing building (receiving the social housing requirement from the concurrent application on Raymur Avenue, described below).
This site sits at the very Eastern edge of the Downtown Eastside Plan, which allows rezoning for larger mixed use projects in this stretch of Hastings Street.
The proposal for the East Hastings site includes:
- 152 condo units;
- 33 one-bedrooms, 102 two-bedrooms & 76 three-bedrooms;
- 55 social housing units;
- 38 studios, 11-two bedrooms & 6 three-bedrooms;
- 9,709 SF of ground floor retail;
- a total density of 6.0 FSR;
- max building height of 120 ft.
- 3 levels of underground parking with 229 vehicle parking spaces and 481 bicycle parking spaces.
The application describes the design rationale: “The proposed development is broken
down into three distinct buildings, each with its own entry lobby, circulation core and facade character. This approach was developed in order to limit the facade length and provide distinct buildings with smaller frontages. Two 12 storey residential market towers are separated by an 8 storey social housing component. The alternating height creates a sawtooth pattern in elevation which corresponds to smaller frontages
which echo the pattern established by the historic portion of Hastings Street. The towers are 80’ apart from each other and the west tower is 40’ from PL and 80’ from the flat-iron site to the west of the site. Each of the tower volumes is further broken down, to emphasize the verticality and slenderness and to reduce the scale of the streetscape elements. The mid-rise portions of the buildings are shifted to align with the northern face of the ground level retail. This establishes a strong street wall while creating south-facing outdoor space on top of the ground level podium that is sheltered from the East Hastings and Clark frontages.”
560 Raymur Avenue
The concurrent application is for a smaller site on the East side of Raymur Avenue, just South of East Hastings Street. The proposal for this I-2 zoned site is a 5-storey market housing building, and includes:
- 59 condo units;
- 39 two-bedrooms & 20 three-bedrooms;
- a total density of 2.94 FSR;
- a building height of 69.55 ft.;
- ground level manufacturing space
- 2 levels of underground parking with 97 vehicle parking spaces and 154 bicycle parking space.
Both applications are being considered under the Downtown Eastside Area Plan and the Rezoning Policy for the Downtown Eastside.
The architect for both applications is Yamamoto Architecture.
