A rezoning application has been submitted for a 15,177 SF, four-lot assembly mid-block site at 8444-8480 Oak Street. The proposal is for a six-storey residential building that includes:

• 40 condo units;
• 19 one-bedrooms, 12 two-bedrooms & 9 three-bedrooms;
• a total density of 2.50 FSR;
• a building height of 65 ft.; and
• two levels of underground parking with 56 vehicle parking spaces and 53 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Marpole Community Plan.

The architect for the project is AVRP Architecture.

The site sold in 2016 for $9,002,000, or $237 per buildable SF based on the application.

A 17,263 SF site at the Northeast corner of Robson Street and Cardero Street has sold to Vivagrand Developments for a purchase price of $79,500,000. The site is designated within the West End Community Plan to allow a density for a highrise, up to a total density 8.75 FSR.

The site, formerly occupied in part by Blockbuster Video, sits directly South across the lane from Westbank’s project at 1550 Alberni.

One of the current retail tenants in the property was featured today in a CBC in a story regarding skyrocketing property taxes.

Maclean Homes has submitted an application to rezone an existing apartment property in the Central Lonsdale area of North Vancouver at the corner of Chesterfield and West 18th Street. 1730 Chesterfield is an older 3-storey 43-unit walkup apartment building on a 27,850 SF lot.

The proposal plans to rezone the Property from RM-1 to allow a new, larger 6-storey rental apartment building. The OCP allows a based density of 1.60 FSR and a bonus of 1.0 FSR and up to 6-storeys in height. Details include:

• 87 rental apartment units;
• 6 studios, 53 one-bedrooms, 18 two-bedrooms and 10 three-bedrooms;
• a total density of 2.54 FSR;
• a total building height of 54 ft.;
• 56 parking stalls on one level of underground parking accessed from the lane;
• a bonus density contribution of $2,885,190.

The architect for the project is Garcia Zunino Architects.