City of North Vancouver council is forging ahead with an ambitious public process for the massive Harbourside waterfront redevelopment.

Council voted Monday night to begin processing the rezoning applications for residential towers over commercial space, pending the approval of a three-metre right of way along Fell Avenue to make room for the Spirit Trail connection, and to kick off the public process.

Developers Concert Properties and Knightsbridge Properties are looking to build 800 units of strata and rental housing on top of 370,000 square feet of commercial space just south of the Northshore Auto Mall over the next 10 years.

Townline Homes has applied to the City of Richmond to rezone 8280 – 8300 Granville Avenue from CA to ZHR13 to build a 16-storey residential tower with 109,000 SF of residential area, 126 units, and 160 parking stalls.

Townline had attempted to acquire the lot to the West, but was unable to do so. 5% of the total units will be provided as affordable housing.

The project went for first reading on November 13th, 2012.

Buffalo Investment (Canada) Ltd. has applied to rezone 755-795 West 41st Avenue in the Oakridge area of Vancouver from RS-1 to CD-1 to build a 6-storey residential building, at a density of 2.72 FSR, including 0.25 FSR for market rental units. The architect is iConstrux Architecture Ltd.

Buffalo had acquired the site, a collection of single family lots, in November 2011 for $15,750,000, or $169 per buildable SF based on the intended rezoning. The market rental units will be located on the ground floor.