Landa Global has submitted their development application for the Burritt Bros site at Main Street and 20th in East Vancouver. Landa acquired the site at 3594 Main Street in a bid process in September 2015, for $11,400,000. Landa was featured in the Globe and Mail at the time of sale.

The plans for the 16,963 SF, C-2 zoned site includes:

• a 4-storey building
• 6,275 SF of ground floor retail
• 45 rental apartment units
• “high percentage” of family-friendly two-bedroom units
• 2.5 FSR density
• one level of underground parking with access from the lane

The architect for the project is Yamamoto Architecture.

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.