The City of North Vancouver is considering a fairly major area-wide rezoning for a neighbourhood known as Moodyville, just East of Lower Lonsdale. The rezoning follows on the City’s new OCP, adopted in 2015, which included a specific policy direction to create new zones within Moodyville, a predominantly single family and duplex area which the City has targeted for new growth.

Moodyville is…“currently comprised of 306 legal lots and approximately 490 units with an estimated population of 1,000. With the land use changes outlined in the 2014 OCP in place which introduce new potential for apartment, townhouse and duplex development, this area has the long-term capacity for an additional 1,400 units (roughly 3,000 new residents) for a total build-out population of approximately 4,000.”

The six proposed new zones will create opportunities for ground-oriented and apartment development. The proposed zones are as follows:

An amenity fund contribution of $20 per net buildable square foot applies to the floor area above the existing zoning and up tot eh OCP maximum density. It is estimated that the whole plan area in question will generate approx. $25 Million in amenity contributions.

Existing Moodyville Land Assemblies

A couple of developers have already secured sizeable land assemblies in Moodyville over the last year. These include:

Seacliff Properties

• 50 residential lots in the Southeast part of Moodyville
• Average anticipated density of 1.25 FSR
• Townhouse, stacked townhouse and 4-storey apartments

Qualex Landmark

• 14 residential lots along East 3rd Street (700-800 block)
• Stacked townhouse and/or 4-storey apartments

The Moodyville Area will be hooked up to the Lonsdale Energy Corporation, a district energy system initiative by the City of North Vancouver.

A rezoning application has been filed for a 17,000 SF two-lot assembly site at 7638-7662 Cambie Street, on the east side of Cambie between West 60th and West 61st Street.

The proposal is for a 6-storey condo building that includes:

• 34 units;
• 2 studios, 4 one-bedrooms, 22 two-bedrooms and 6 three-bedrooms
• a building height of 70 ft. ;
• a total density of 2.43 FSR; and
• 71 vehicle parking spaces and 49 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The architect, GBL, explains the design rationale: “The Cambie Street facade comprises of stacked linear interowoven layers that playfully mirror the vehicular energy and movement of the adjacent street. The long projecting balconies act as giant louvers that shield the building face from mid to late afternoon sun, while also providing some acoustic buffering depth from the busy traffic.”

Here is an update for an interesting rental apartment project at Oak and West 14th Street. The project, by Aquilini Development, involved heritage retention of an existing 14-unit apartment building known as the Santa Fe Apartments.

As part of the heritage retention, Aquilini received approval for a 10-storey, 50-unit rental apartment building in behind the current structure, with a total density of 2.8 FSR under the RM-3 zoning. The project was unique in that only 14 units existed on a 12,500 SF site.

The project was approved at public hearing in May 2014.

The concrete tower is now topped out, although completion appears to be several months away yet.

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