North Delta doesn’t want to be Burnaby.

That’s what Delta council heard Tuesday night as residents packed into a public hearing at Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre to speak their piece about a 37-storey apartment tower proposed to be built near Scott Road.

Blexo Developments Ltd. wants to build the highrise at 11941 80th Ave., where a nursery and coffee shop used to be before they were demolished in 2004.

Council could be voting on it as early as next Monday. If approved, the building would be by far the tallest in North Delta. Runners-up would be the three 14-storey buildings now standing, one at 88th Avenue and 119th Street and the other two across the street from where this new building would be built, just south of the Delta Shoppers Mall off Scott Road.

City of North Vancouver council is forging ahead with an ambitious public process for the massive Harbourside waterfront redevelopment.

Council voted Monday night to begin processing the rezoning applications for residential towers over commercial space, pending the approval of a three-metre right of way along Fell Avenue to make room for the Spirit Trail connection, and to kick off the public process.

Developers Concert Properties and Knightsbridge Properties are looking to build 800 units of strata and rental housing on top of 370,000 square feet of commercial space just south of the Northshore Auto Mall over the next 10 years.

Pinnacle International‘s 2nd phase of their Broadway IGA site development moves to public hearing tonight. The project, at 2001 West 10th Avenue is a rezoning from M-1 to CD-1. The proposal is for a 7-storey residential building and a 6-storey residential building, with a childcare facility at grade, all over shared underground parking. The application proposes a total of 125 units, a density of 2.5 FSR, a building height of 74.5 feet and 183 parking spaces.