A rezoning application in North Vancouver intends to replace two low-density apartment buildings with a new 6-storey rental apartment building and could be a good model for other rental projects in the City of North Vancouver and elsewhere in the Lower Mainland.

The proposal for the 12,014 SF site at 362-368 East 3rd Street is to replace two older apartment buildings with a combined total of 11 apartments, with 40 rental units in a new 6-storey building. The proposed density is 2.6 FSR per the recently adopted OCP for the area. The plan includes only 9 parking stalls on the surface at the rear of the new building.

The unit mix includes:

• Nine 3-bedroom units
• Ten 2-bedroom units
• Six 1-bedroom units
• Fifteen studio unit

Because the proposed project is 100% secured rental housing, there will be no community amenity contribution.

Current Site Condition

The application is still preliminary and requires council approval to move through the standard rezoning process.

Thind Properties has submitted an application to rezone a 31,623 SF site at 2395-2443 Kingsway from C-2 and RT-2 to CD-1 to allow a 12-storey building condo building with retail at grade, including:

• 126 units
• 9,837 SF of retail space at grade
• a building height of 125 ft.
• a density of 3.79 FSR; and
• 154 underground parking spaces.

The site has 297 feet of frontage on Kingsway. The application is being considered under the Norquay Village Neighbourhood Centre Plan which designated the site for highrise residential up to 3.80 FSR.

Based on the overwhelming success of sales of its first two towers, and with almost all of the 850 units in Brentwood ONE and Brentwood TWO towers having now sold out, Shape Properties is seeking Burnaby City Council approval for a third phase, comprising a further 526 units in a new 51-storey tower on the Lougheed Highway frontage. Details include:

• 429,578 SF of residential space
• 29,195 SF of retail space
• 46,587 SF of office space on floors 2-4
• 317 one-bedroom units and 209 two and three bedroom units
• 579 underground parking spaces
• A total community amenity contribution of $11,987,000 (or $80 per BSF)

When completed, this third tower will bring the total unit count at Brentwood Town Centre up to 1,366 units, about a third of the total overall units planned for the site.