Onni has filed rezoning applications with the City of Vancouver for two sites on the same block of West Pender Street, between Richards and Homer in Downtown Vancouver. The sites, which aren’t connected, are currently zoned DD. The plans call for a combined 141 new rental units on two separate sites:

424 West Pender St.

The proposal 11-storey building that includes:

• 72 units of secured market rental housing;
• commercial space on the ground floor;
• total density of 8.08 FSR;
• 4 car-share, 1 disability and 1 standard parking space;
• 90 bicycle parking spaces; and
• a height of 105 ft.

454 West Pender St.

The proposal is for an 11-storey building that includes:

• 69 units of secured market rental housing;
• commercial space on the ground floor;
• total density of 8.48 FSR;
• 4 car-share parking spaces;
• 87 bicycle parking spaces; and
• a height of 105 ft.

Both sites are located in teh Downtown Eastside Plan and would qualify for rezoning under the Rezoning Policy for Downtown Eastside.

Westbank, in conjunction with Crombie REIT and Canada Safeway, have applied to redevelop one of the largest land parcels on Davie Street in the West End of Downtown Vancouver. The 47,464 SF site is currently home to a single-storey grocery store. The application proposes a redevelopment of the site with a mixed-use building consisting of:

• a 3 storey podium with three retail units on the lower & upper ground level;
• a retail grocery store on the upper ground & mezzanine level;
• two residential towers (21 & 22 storeys)
• a total of 319 market rental units;
• 3 levels common underground parking, accessed off Davie St and the rear lane;
• a total density of 6.43 FSR

Under the site’s existing C5-A zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Development Permit Board. The architect for the project is Henriquez Partners.

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Construction is now well underway on Aquilini Group‘s second rental tower at Rogers Arena. The south tower will be 31-storeys with 5-levels of underground parking. It will include “over 250 residential rental units in addition to fitness and multipurpose facilities.

A rendering of the tower can be seen at Francl Architecture’s site.

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Below is a summary of current rezoning applications going before the City of Burnaby council:

First Phases of Southgate Village Ledingham McAllister is moving forward with the first phases of their 48-acre Southgate Village project, a massive multi-phase development in South Burnaby, for which a master plan was approved in July 2015. The first phase includes a development in conjunction with BC Housing which owns a site across the street from the Southgate property.

• 7121 Fourteenth Avenue

This 6.82 acre site is owned by BC Housing and was not part of the original Southgate rezoning. The application describes how BC Housing became involved with Ledingham McAllister:

“As the master planning work for the Southgate Village site advanced, an opportunity to also address the Cedar Place site became apparent. Extensive discussions with the applicant, BC Housing, and the City has resulted in an innovative approach to replace existing Cedar Place housing with new units, and access the value in the site itself to generate additional seniors’ non-market housing units.”

Currently, the site is improved with an older low-rise multiple family development in poor condition. The plan is to replace the Cedar Place units within the Southgate site (application below) and to redevelop the Cedar Place site with new family oriented affordable housing.

• 7201 11th Avenue

The plan for this first phase is to build a 4-5 storey non-market rental apartment building on a 54,774 SF lot at the corner of 14th Avenue and Fifteenth Street. The non-market is intended as the first step to replace 90 social housing units located in a BC Housing development across the street, which is also slated for redevelopment by Ledingham McAllister. The end-result is that there will be a 2:1 replacement of units.

6695 Dunblane & 4909-4971 Imperial Street

This rezoning application in Metrotown, on behalf of Transca Real Estate Development is for the potential construction of a 35-40 storey highrise residential tower with street-oriented townhouses fronting Dunblane Avenue and live/work units fronting Imperial Street. The rezoning involves the consolidation of two sites under the RM3 and RM5s designations, which would total 58,499 SF. The sites were acquired as part of a land assembly in 2014; they are currently improved with lowrise apartments built in the 50’s and 60s.

2285 Willingdon Avenue and 4455-4483 Juneau Street

The plan for this 74,502 SF site in the southern part of the Brentwood Town Centre area owned by Amacon calls for a highrise residential tower and ground-oriented townhouses fronting Juneau Street. The site is comprised of existing industrial buildings and is designated under the Brentwood Town Centre Plan as RM4s, which allows a density of 3.6 FAR.

6921-6965 Arcola Street

This rezoning application is for a 23,760 SF site in the Edmonds area of Burnaby. The proposal is for a 22-unit, 3-storey townhouse development with underground parking. The site is an assembly of six run-down single family lots which are designated RM3 under the Edmonds Town Centre Plan. The total density for the site is proposed to be 1.1 FAR, though the applicant Kingswood Real Estate Management, can achieve a bonus of an additional 0.4 FAR under the plan guidelines.

Further information on these projects and other Burnaby applications can be found here.