City of Vancouver staff have rejected a rezoning application for a six-storey mixed-use building on the Stong’s Market site.

Brian Jackson, the city’s manager of planning and development, recommended the proponent pull the application in light of opposition based on Dunbar’s community vision, which prescribes a four-storey limit on buildings.

“I, of course, only recommend to council, so if [the applicant wishes] to pursue, they could still go to council with our negative recommendation and then it would be council that would formally turn them down, but I have recommended that they withdraw their application,” Jackson told the Courier Thursday morning.

Henriquez Partners Architects filed the rezoning application with the city on behalf of the landowner Harwood Group.

The site in question includes properties from 4508 to 4560 on Dunbar Street and 3581 West 30th Avenue — the current locations for Stong’s, McDermott’s Body Shop and two parking lots. The rezoning proposal provided space for the grocery store to move back in after the project was completed.

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Chartwell Retirement Residences has acquired a 138-suite residence in Mission for $27 million, the real estate trust announced Monday.

Cedarbrooke Chateau, built in 2009 and 73 per cent occupied, is Chartwell’s second retirement residence in Mission, a Fraser Valley community with a population of about 34,500.

Chartwell says it expects “strong operational synergies” with the existing 126-suite Chartwell Carrington House Retirement Residence but didn’t provide details in its announcement.

“This acquisition is fully in line with our strategy to acquire newer, well-designed and well-located properties in our existing markets,” Brent Binions, Chartwell’s president and CEO, said in a statement.