The City of Vancouver has received a rezoning application for the Turner’s Dairy property, a commercial/industrial building built in 1913 and located at the southwest corner of Ontario Street and West 17th Avenue in Vancouver. The RS-7 zoned site is 11,812 SF.

The building was bought in 1978 by the Hemani family and converted to a manufacturing space for the family business: leather goods, and has operated there since that time.

The rezoning proposal is for the adaptive reuse of the existing 3-storey building, including:

• heritage restoration and designation;
• a total of 13 market residential units in stacked/courtyard rowhouse form;
• a total density of 1.82 FSR;
• a building height of 35 ft.;
• 20 vehicle parking spaces; and
• 18 bicycle spaces.

Existing Building

The rezoning is being made under the City’s Heritage Policies and Guidelines, including the Heritage Action Plan

The architect for the project is ASIR Studio.

The full rezoning application can be viewed here: http://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/6w17thave/index.htm

A 5th lot has been added to this land assembly that we launched last week. The total site area is now 39,195 SF, and is located in the Cambie Corridor Phase 3 area with a townhouse designation.

The lots will be pre-zoned by the City of Vancouver once the Phase 3 Plan has been adopted by City of Vancouver Council in late 2017/early 2018.

Contact us for further details on the offer process.

Boffo Developments has submitted an application to rezone a 4.12 acre site at Lougheed and Springer in the Eastern part of the Brentwood Town Centre area of Burnaby. The site is currently comprised of five older industrial buildings located near the Holdom Skytrain Station. The current zoning is M-2.

The site has a designation of RM-5s designation in the Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan. Boffo is proposing a four-tower project to be established by a master plan over the entire site. Phase 1 would occur in the Northeast corner of the site, and future rezoning applications would be required for the subsequent three phases.

Details include:

• Four residential towers from 25 to 40-storeys;
• Above-ground parking screened by street fronting townhouses;
• Extension of Lougheed Parkway concept along South side of Lougheed Hwy;
• Public plaza at Lougheed and Springer Avenue.

Onni has submitted their formal rezoning application for a site at 3249-3355 North Road on the Burnaby side of North Road in the Lougheed Town Centre area plan. The site sits immediately north of Shape’s City of Lougheed project.

The 151,116 SF site is comprised of a 1980’s era strip mall with office space, as well as a vacant lot. The plan for redevelopment of the property includes:

• A 32-storey north condo tower & 36-storey south condo tower
• A 14-storey office building with 160,000 SF of office space;
• A 2-storey commercial podium fronting North Road;
• 17,000 SF of retail space;
• 540 total units;
• 110 studios, 171 one-bedrooms, 196 two-bedrooms & 63 three-bedrooms;
• A total density of 4.88 FAR;
• A pedestrian plaza at the corner of North Road and Cameron Street
• 1,100 parking space on 4 levels of underground parking.

A rezoning application has been submitted for a site at 905-959 Premier Street in the Lynnmour area of North Vancouver. The consists of four single family lots on the West side of Premier Street, bordering Inter River Park.

Details of the proposal include:

• 17-townhouse units in four buildings;
• all three-bedrooms ranging from 1,129 SF to 1,232 SF;
• a total density of 0.75 FSR;
• 35 parking spaces in garages.
• a total CAC payment of $257,281