Onni has submitted a rezoning application for the next phase of their Gilmore Place project in the Brentwood area of Burnaby. The first two condo towers have received occupancy in 2024. The first phase includes three towers.

Phase 2 of the project also includes three towers. The first tower of this phase was originally envisioned as a highrise office tower, but has now been revised to residential.

Onni is proposing to deliver the non-market inclusionary units envisioned in the second and third phase in Tower 4, originally envisioned as a 30-storey office tower, and now a 65-storey, 759 unit residential tower.

The revised proposal for Tower 4 includes:

• 509 condo units;
• 250 non-market rental units;
• a 2-storey commercial podium;
• a 7-level parkade that will serve all of Phase 2 (three towers).

Keltic Development has been given approval to move to first reading on a rezoning application for the Rev’s Bowling site at 5502 Lougheed Highway in the Brentwood area.

Keltic acquired the site in 2023 for $94,000,000.

The site is located between Lougheed Highway to the north and Goring Street to the south and is designated for High Density Multiple Family Residential within the Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan.

The development proposal is for three residential towers (60-storeys, 54-storeys and 46-storeys) with common 5-storey podium that includes residential uses, live-work units, and commercial space on the ground floor, above a shared underground parkade. A two storey amenity building is proposed in the southeast corner of the site.

Details include:

• 1,667 total residential units;
• 1,432 condos;
• 235 affordable rental units;
• a total density of 7.17 FAR.

Shape Properties has submitted a rezoning application to amend the master plan for their 28-acre ‘Amazing Brentwood‘ site in the Brentwood Town Centre area of Burnaby.

The master plan for the Amazing Brentwood site was originally approved in 2013 and included 11 residential towers in addition to substantial retail and commercial space. Subsequently, five towers have been completed (or under construction), with two further towers in the application phase. The remaining density on site is now subject to the City of Burnaby’s Rental Use Zoning Policy (RUZP), adopted in 2021.

Furthermore, on November 30, 2023, the BC Legislature granted Royal Assent to Bill 47- 2023
Housing Statutes (Transit-Oriented Areas) Amendment Act 2023. Bill 47 enables the Province to mandate specific densities, size, and/or dimensions of buildings within transit-oriented areas (TOAs) based on specific distances to transit stations, and restrictions on residential off-street requirements within these
TOAs. The Amazing Brentwood site is within a 200m radius of the Skytrain Station, thereby requiring the City of Burnaby to permit a minimum 5.0 FAR density for the site.

Shape is now proposing a variety of amendments to the Master Plan to accommodate the required additional nonmarket inclusionary rental density, associated offset density and new TOA policy.

The proposed changes are summarized as follows:

• Increased tower heights up to 80-storeys at centre of site;
• An additional 4.7 Million SF of residential density (2.4M SF minimum rental);
• No additional commercial floor area (the RUZP allows 50% of comm density as rental residential);
• Addition of childcare space;
• Additional green space.