A rezoning and development application has been submitted for a 26,122 SF site located at 810 Agnes Street in Downtown New Westminster. The site is designated Mixed Use High Density in the New Westminster Official Community Plan and is located one block from a Skytrain station.

The plan calls for a new 29-storey residential tower that includes:

• 222 residential units;
• 125 one-bedrooms, 72 two-bedrooms and 25 three-bedrooms;
• a total density of 7.2 FSR;
• a tower height of 280 feet;
• 270 underground parking stalls;
• 3,350 SF of indoor community space;
• construction of a new park at 824 Agnes Street

The architect for the project is Hapa Collaborative.

A rezoning application has been submitted for a new rental apartment building on a 66′ lot on the South side of East Hastings Street in the Hastings Heights area of Vancouver. The site totals 6,762 SF and is currently zoned C-2C1.

The plan for the site at 3532 East Hastings Street is to rezone under Rental 100 for a 6-storey building, consisting of:

• • 34 secured market rental units;
  • 2,021 SF of retail space at grade;
  • a total density of 4.08 FSR;
  • a building height of 67 ft.; and
  • 1 level of underground car parking with 24 stalls.

This application is being considered under the Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Policy.

The architect for the project is Gair Williamson Architects.

The property last sold in June 2016 for $3,100,000 or $83 per buildable SF based on the rezoning application.

Larco has applied to the City of Vancouver to amend the rezoning for the Arbutus Village Shopping Centre site.

The overall rezoning for the 7-acre site was approved back in 2011, with the first two phases along Arbutus now having been fully approved and under construction. 

The new rezoning proposal would increase the overall residential floor area for the remaining phases on the Western portion of the site (Blocks C and D), including an increase in the number of market and social housing units. The application cites the housing crisis which has worsened considerably since 2011, as well as the re-imagining of the Arbutus Greenway and Arbutus Corridor. 20% of the units are required to be social housing.

The specific amendments that affect the remaining project (Blocks C and D) include:

• A 113,519 SF increase in total density;
• A total of 240 units;
• An increase in building height on Block C to 197 ft
• An increase in building height of Block D to 236 ft.
• 2,700 SF expansion of planned Neighbourhood House (approx. 10,000 SF)

Blocks C & D also includes about 10,000 SF of retail space, as well as an adult day care, and strata rec centre.  The rezoning application proposes no change to the amount of commercial space, and includes an expanded Neighbourhood House referenced above.