The City of New Westminster is exploring further changes to its Lower Twelfth Street area plan, with an ongoing study now being considered by council following on earlier work from 2024.

Current objectives include:

• Confirmation of the Official Community Plan vision for the mix of “ultra-light” uses
  supported by residential in the Lower Twelfth area.
• Endorsement of the neighbourhood massing approach, that would see the highest buildings closer to Downtown transitioning down to the lower density edges of the study area.
• Exploring changing the Official Community Plan designation of some properties outside but adjacent to the study area.

Next steps:

1. Completion of Additional Studies (Summer 2025) and report back to Council on implications to Lower Twelfth area study
2. Public and Nations Engagement (anticipated Fall 2025)
3. Council Approval of the Evaluation Framework (anticipated Winter 2025/2026)

The full presentation can be viewed here: https://pub-newwestcity.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=21572

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).

Fairborne Homes has revised their proposal for the 2.4 acre site at 1510 – 1530 Crown Street and 440 Mountain Highway (formerly the Dykhoff Nursery site) in the Lynn Creek area of North Vancouver.

The site was previously rezoned in 2022 to allow for a project with a 24-storey, 205-unit condo tower with 215 rental units in a concrete midrise.

The revised proposal includes:

• 429 rental units including 45 below market;
• 25,865 SF of commercial space;
• reduced underground parkade

The architect for the project is Arcadis Architecture.