The days are numbered for a popular hangout for Simon Fraser University students after Burnaby council gave the go-ahead for a redevelopment proposal.

Council gave approval in principle to a rezoning application for the property at 7174 Barnet Rd., at Pandora Street, currently home of the Mountain Shadow Pub.

The proposal is for a three-storey, mixed-use project with a small commercial space on the ground floor, 21 stacked townhouse units and underground parking, with vehicle access from Barnet Road.

Four speakers appeared at the June 24 public hearing and city hall received five letters about the proposal, said a city staff report. They raised issues including traffic, the closure of the pub, privacy, existing trees on the site, and vehicle and fire access.

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By ChangingCity

Here’s another development proposal for a narrow site in the Downtown Eastside. Christopher Bozyk Architects has designed this 9-storey 60 unit project for a fifty feet wide lot next door to Stan Douglas’s artists studio (that was built about five years ago). We first featured it 18 months ago when details of the design were first released.

Our revised render shows the version now illustrated on the sales website, and there are signs on site that construction might commence soon. The project has two floors of commercial space and a shared landscaped rooftop garden, and the developer is Port Capital Group who are building the interestingly designed 2211 Cambie project now called South Creek Landing.

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Source: Changing City

By ChangingCity

This 6-storey residential over retail building will need to get a rezoning before the developer can obtain a Development Permit. It’s featured on the website of the architects, Studio One, and is in the Mount Pleasant Plan stretch of Main Street that allows a change to residential on upper floors. The plan limits heights in the central stretch of 2nd to 7th, so this Main and 4th Avenue project (on the west side) looks to meet the requirements of the plan.

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Source: Changing City