The City of Vancouver has released a Draft of the much anticipated Broadway Plan that now includes details on land use designations, density, built form and public benefits.

This is the most detailed iteration of a planning process which launched three years ago.

The full draft plan can be viewed on the City’s website, here.

The Broadway Plan is broken down into three main geographic neighbourhoods:

• Kitsilano
• Fairview
• Mount Pleasant

Here is a summary of the overall draft plan as well as detail for proposed zoning within each neighbourhood.

Kitsilano

Fairview

Mount Pleasant

A rezoning application has been submitted by Larco for a new infill apartment building next to an existing building they own at 5455 Balsam Street, known as Fontainebleu Apartments, at the Northwest corner of Balsam and West 39th Avenue in Kerrisdale.

The proposal is to allow for the addition of a 15-storey infill residential building on the 57,599 SF site, while retaining the existing 14-storey, 88-unit building.

The proposal for the infill component includes:

• 145 market rental units;
  • 57 studios, 35 one-bedrooms & 53 two-bedrooms;
• 15th floor amenity space;
• A total new density of 1.88 FSR (total density of 3.63 FSR)
• A building height of 130 ft.;
• 58 underground vehicle parking spaces and 278 bicycle parking spaces

The application is being considered under the Secured Rental Policy.

The building massing and setbacks are based on the RM-3 zoning.

The architect for the project is Rositch Hemphill Architects.

The property was sold in 2020 for $70,000,000 by Colliers.

A development application has been submitted for the full city block site at the Southwest corner of East 1st Avenue and Clark Drive in East Vancouver.

The proposed project is a speculative mixed use industrial and office project preliminarily called “1st & Clark”. The 5-storey building will be a horseshoe shape and include units for smaller downtown wholesale and light industrial users.

Details of the project include:

• wholesale uses on the main to second floor;
• general offices on the third to fifth floors;
• 197,948 SF of gross floor area;
• a total density of 3.0 FSR;
• a building height of 72 ft.; and
• 220 underground parking spaces on one underground level.

Under the site’s existing I-2 zoning, the application is “conditional” so it may be permitted; however, it requires the decision of the Director of Planning.

The architect for the project is TKA+D Architecture + Design Inc.