A rezoning application has been filed under the City’s interim Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program for a new rental project in East Vancouver. The site at 1956-1990 Stainsbury Avenue lies just West of Victoria Drive in the Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighbourhood. The site lies just a few hundred meters from Nanaimo Skytrain Station.

The total site area is 23,005 SF, and the plan calls to rezone from RS-1A to allow for a 5-storey rental residential building. The proposal includes:

• 80 rental units with 20% of the residential floor area assigned to moderate income households;
  • 28 studios, 22 one-bedrooms, 18 two-bedrooms and 12 three-bedrooms; 
• a total density of 2.59 FSR;
• a building height of 52 ft.; 
• 34 underground parking spaces (including two carshare spaces);
• 198 bicycle spaces.

The application describes the public benefits of the project: “This combined affordable and market rental building provides the unique opportunity to add to the social fabric of the surrounding community and exceeds many of the minimum requirements set forth in the MIRHPP policy requirements. Importantly, there is no impact on existing rental units or tenants and as such, the proposed Stainsbury Project is a pure addition of 80 units to the City’s existing rental stock.” 

The architect for the project is Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects

We are pleased to introduce 4575 Main Street – an opportunity to purchase a prominent redevelopment site with secure holding income. The C-2 zoned auto dealership is located on a 25,341 SF lot and offers the opportunity to secure a 5-year leaseback at land value.

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A development application has been filed to rehabilitate a vacant commercial building in the Crosstown area of Vancouver. The existing 4-storey commercial building at 41 West Pender was previously used as a warehouse for a nearby department store and has been vacant for several years.

This proposal is to add two storeys of woodframe secured rental residential to the existing building, while maintaining office and retail uses in teh existing building. The
current zoning (DD-C2) allows for 5.0 FSR, with an additional 1.0 FSR permitted if all Residential is Secured Market Rental. The existing lot is 50 x 120.

Details include:

• 5,872 SF of retail uses on ground floor;
• 18,515 SF of office use on levels 2-4;
• 9,511 SF of residential uses on 5 & 6;
• 16 market rental units (all studios);
• an amenity roof patio;
• a building height of 97 feet;
• a total density of 5.65 FSR (including Transferable Heritage Density); 
• two parking stalls accessed from the lane.

Under the site’s existing DD zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Development Permit Board.

The application describes the building program: “The existing building is a hybrid of concrete, concrete block, steel frame with solid wood joists with concrete topping. The facade is cast in place concrete, front and back, with composite masonry block firewalls. This solid building has good potential for renovation which is not only sustainable but can allow for its occupation in shorter timelines than full demolition and rebuild. The Structural Engineers were consulted from the outset and have provided the parameters of what is and what is not possible with existing structure.

For the proposal to be feasible the renovation hinges on retaining the bulk of the primary structure and adapting the fabric to meet the new use and codes with new shared stair and elevator core. The two levels of residential need to be constructed of light wood frame.”

The architect for the project is Metric Architecture.