Another week, another rental apartment building rezoning application under the City of Vancouver’s Rental 100 program. This one is for a 12,300 SF site (99′ x 122′) located on the North side of Kingsway near Fraser Street. The application to for 855 Kingsway calls for a rezoning from the existing C-2 zoning to CD to permit the development of a six-storey mixed-use building. This is a concurrent rezoning and development permit application.

The proposal includes:

• 49 secured market rental units;
• 14 studios, 18 one-bedrooms, 12 two-bedrooms and 5 three-bedroom units
• 4,043 SF of retail at grade;
• A total density of 3.30 FSR;
• A building height of 68.9 ft.; and
• 25 underground parking spaces.

This application is being considered under the Secured Market Rental Housing (Rental 100) Policy.

The architect for the project is Cornerstone Architecture.

The site had sold in 2015 for $3,668,000, or approximately $91 per buildable SF.

Strand Development has submitted a rezoning application for a 10,881 SF site on West 12th Avenue, next to the Arbutus greenway. The site is currently improved with an older commercial building occupied by Blenheim Import Auto Service. 

The plan for the site calls to rezone from the existing C-7 commercial zoning to permit the development of a 6-storey residential building. The proposal includes:

• 48 rental apartment units;
• 3 studios, 20 one-bedrooms, 15 two-bedrooms and 10 three-bedrooms
• A total density of 3.47 FSR
• A building height of 63.75 ft.; and
• 20 underground parking spaces.

The application is being made under the Rental 100 policy.

The architect for this project is Yamamoto Architecture.

A preliminary rezoning application has been submitted by Chard Development in order to add much needed rental apartment density to an existing apartment property in the Central Lonsdale area of North Vancouver.

1441 St. George’s Avenue is a rental apartment building at St. Georges and East 15th Street. The existing building is 14-storeys with a 2-storey commercial podium. The building contains 80 rental residential units and 52 commercial units.

The rezoning application is proposing to rezone the property to allow for the construction of a new rental tower on the West side of the site, including:

• a 23-storey rental tower
• 175 new rental units
• 10 studios, 111 one-bedrooms, 114 two-bedrooms, 20 three-bedrooms (combined)
• a total combined density of 6.29 FSR
• purchase of 85,156 SF of density at $115 per SF

The site is currently zoned Central Lonsdale Mixed Use ‘C-1B’, which allows for a density of 2.60 FSR. The site is designated Mixed Use Level 4B land use in the Official Community Plan (OCR), which allows for an FSR of up to 3.0 with the potential for a density bonus of an additional 1.0 FSR.

The architect for the project is MCM Partnership Architects.

The property sold in September 2016 for $37,500,000, or $310,000 per existing unit.

Westbank Corp. has filed their rezoning application for the 23,234 SF site at the Northwest corner of Broadway and Alma Street. The site at 3701-3743 West Broadway is currently zoned C-2 and is currently improved with an old strip retail property.

The rezoning proposal is for a 6-storey mixed-use project, which includes:

• 94 secured market rental units;
• 59 studios, 1 one-bedroom, 33 two-bedrooms, 1 three-bedroom
• 7,190 SF of retail space
• A total density of 3.15 FSR;
• A building height of 64 ft.; and
• 99 parking spaces.

This application is being considered under the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy. The architect for this project is Henriquez Partners.

The site was acquired by Westbank in 2011 for $9,443,000 or $121 per buildable SF based upon the current rezoning application.

A rezoning application has been submitted for a site on Cambie at West 48th Avenue that includes a vacant lot that was left over after the Canada Line was completed. The plan for the two lot assembly is an interesting one and a slight departure for Cambie in that it proposes a 10-storey building that includes:

• 59 residential units;
• 12 one-bedrooms, 41 two bedrooms, 6 three-bedrooms
• 1,069 SF of retail at grade;
• a building height of 108 ft.;
• a total density of 3.87 FSR; and
• 44 underground vehicle parking spaces and 74 bicycle parking spaces.

The application is being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The architect is Hotson Architecture.

The two lots were assembled for a combined price of $11,800,000, or $198 per buildable SF.