North Shore Outlook – Towering concerns touch Lynn Valley.

A couple hundred people packed a District of North Vancouver council meeting Monday, as vocal resistance to high-density neighbourhoods in North Vancouver continues.

Proposed Lynn Valley Town Centre

Most were there to protest the Lynn Valley Town Centre Implementation Plan, a rigorous public consultation process on the future of new development in Lynn Valley. Attendees told council they felt the consultation plan would merely pay lip-service to residents’ concerns while high-rise development plans for Lynn Valley would go ahead regardless of the public’s wishes.

In actual fact, the implementation plan is just the next step in the district’s Official Community Plan (OCP), a long-term growth management strategy ratified in 2011 after two years of public consultations. That next step, approved unanimously by council Monday, merely directs staff “to undertake an intensive and focused community engagement initiative in early 2013 to seek further feedback to shape and refine the Lynn Valley Town Centre Implementation Plan.”

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The tallest building on the North Shore can now be built in the Seylynn neighbourhood of the District of North Vancouver, following a contentious council vote Monday (Dec. 10).

In a 4-3 vote, council approved the five-building development east of Mountain Highway and north of Fern Street, which includes three highrises measuring 24, 28, and 32 storeys.

In an equally close vote the week before, council passed an amendment to limit height to 28 storeys, but last Monday’s meeting restored the plan to its previous height limits, thus allowing the 32-storey tower.

North Shore Outlook – DNV votes to downsize proposed Seylynn tower.

A 32-storey tower is too high for District of North Vancouver council, but 28 floors will likely be just fine.

On Dec. 4,  district council voted to scale down a tower proposed for the Lower Lynn area by four floors to 28 storeys, if the development is eventually approved.

If the plan does go ahead, the neighbourhood near Capilano University will be transformed by a 790-unit development with three other mixed-use buildings, ranging in height from six to 28 storeys.

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