A rezoning application has been submitted to add rental apartments to an existing rental apartment property at 1552 Esquimalt Avenue in West Vancouver. Ambleside Towers is a 21-storey, 185 unit concrete highrise built in 1970 on a nearly two acre site. The plan calls for the addition of new rental units on the underutilized Western portion of the site.

The application was initially made in 2016 but put on hold as part of West Vancouver’s revised OCP process. The proposal was brought forward again in late 2018 and now seek public input.

The proposal includes the following:

• a new 17-storey rental apartment tower;
• 131 rental units (including 20 ground oriented units)
  • 16 studios, 60 one-bedrooms, 54 two-bedrooms & 1 three-bedroom unit;
• a total combined site density of 2.99 FAR;
• a total building height of 170 ft.;
• 83 new parking spaces (for a total on site of 208)

The architect for the project is Buttjes Architecture.

The Molnar Group has submitted a rezoning application for a 6-lot land assembly on Renfrew Street at the Northwest corner of East 10th Avenue. The 24,899 SF site at 2543-2583 Renfrew Street and 2895 East 10th Avenue is proposed for rezoning under the City’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program to allow for the development of a 6-storey mixed-use building including:

• 87 rental apartments;
  • 13 studios, 34 one-bedrooms, 26 two-bedrooms & 14 three-bedrooms;
• 8,344 SF of retail at grade;
• a total density of 3.42 FSR;
• a maximum height of 66.5 ft.
• 58 underground parking stalls.

The architect for the project is Wensley Architecture.

The Molnar Group has also submitted a separate rezoning application under the MIRHPP for the five lots at the Southwest corner of this same intersection. Together, the project is entitled ‘Renfrew Residences’.

Two rezoning applications have been submitted by PCI Group for two separate sites that bookend the 3600 Block of East Hastings Street near the Burnaby border in the City of Vancouver.

The applications seek two 14-storey rental apartment towers under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, which allows rezoning to higher densities in exchange for 20% of the density designated for moderate income households.

3680 East Hastings Street was sold by our team in 2018.

The details of the two proposals are as follows:

3600 East Hastings Street (at Kootenay Street)

• 94 rental units;
• 8,036 SF of retail at grade;
• a total density of 7.10 FSR;
• a building height of 158.2 ft.; 
• 41 underground parking spaces and 125 bicycle spaces.

3680 East Hastings Street (at Boundary Road)

• 118 rental units;
• 10,461 SF of retail space at grade;
• a total density of 6.90 FSR;
• a building height of 164.4 ft.; 
• 57 underground parking spaces and 156 bicycle spaces.

The architect for the project is BHA Architecture.