Strand Development has submitted an application to rezone a 44,372 SF triangular site at the corner of Victoria Drive and Stainsbury Avenue for a new rental apartment project.  The site is two former light industrial lots that are zoned MC-1. The proposal includes:

• A 6-storey rental apartment building
• A total of 155 market rental apartment units, including six live-work units;
• 43 studios, 44 one-bedrooms, 41 two-bedrooms and 21 three-bedrooms
• A floor area of 108,912 SF;
• A density of 2.46 FSR;
• A building height of 61 ft;
• 101 residential parking spaces and one Class B loading space; and
• 194 Class A and six Class B bicycle parking spaces.

The application also involves the reconfiguration of lots by relocating a lane and consolidating two lots previously separated by a lane.

The application is being considered under the Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Program.

A development application has been filed for a new laneway infill apartment building on a 66′ lot in the West End. 1176 Burnaby Street, owned by Lantern Properties, has an existing 11-storey, 41-unit apartment building known as Newport Apartments.

The laneway apartment application is for the rear of the property, currently a surface parking area. Details include:

• 9 rental apartments
• building height of 47 ft
• Total area of 6,852 SF
• 7 underground parking stalls accessed off the lane

The site is zoned RM-5A and the West End Community Plan, adopted in 2014, amended the RM zones to allow infill apartments on laneways where there is sufficient room for them.

South Street Development Group has applied to rezone a 23,088 SF three-lot land assembly at 431-455 West King Edward Avenue to allow a new rental apartment development. The proposal is for a 4-storey building with 2-storey townhouses at the lane that includes:

• 42 secured market rental units;
• 5 one-bedrooms, 24 two-bedrooms, 13 three & four-bedrooms
• a building height of 45 ft.
• a total density of 1.98 FSR; and
• 54 vehicle parking spaces and 63 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan. The architect is Integra Architecture.

Strand Development has submitted an application to rezone a 20,727 SF 3-lot land assembly at 210-262 West King Edward Avenue on the Southwest corner of Columbia and King Edward from RS-1 to allow a rental residential development that includes:

• one 4-storey building on West King Edward Avenue with 2-storey townhouses facing the lane;
• 52 market rental apartment units;
• 3 studios; 29 one-bedrooms; 15 two-bedrooms & 5 three-bedrooms
• a building height of 44 ft. from grade;
• a total density of 1.77 FSR; and
• 54 underground parking spaces and 66 bicycle spaces.

The application is being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The architect for the project is Yamamoto Architecture.

A development application has been filed for a site at 928 Commercial Drive, mid-block just South of Venables Street. The plan for the 33 x 121 ft site is to build a new infill building including:

• a 5-storey, mixed use building
• retail on first floor and residential above (2nd to 5th floors)
• 12 rental aparment units
• 3 parking spaces having vehicular access from the lane.

Under the site’s existing C-2C1 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The architect, Matthew Cheng, explains the design rationale: