City of Vancouver staff have rejected a rezoning application for a six-storey mixed-use building on the Stong’s Market site.

Brian Jackson, the city’s manager of planning and development, recommended the proponent pull the application in light of opposition based on Dunbar’s community vision, which prescribes a four-storey limit on buildings.

“I, of course, only recommend to council, so if [the applicant wishes] to pursue, they could still go to council with our negative recommendation and then it would be council that would formally turn them down, but I have recommended that they withdraw their application,” Jackson told the Courier Thursday morning.

Henriquez Partners Architects filed the rezoning application with the city on behalf of the landowner Harwood Group.

The site in question includes properties from 4508 to 4560 on Dunbar Street and 3581 West 30th Avenue — the current locations for Stong’s, McDermott’s Body Shop and two parking lots. The rezoning proposal provided space for the grocery store to move back in after the project was completed.

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Paragon Development Ltd. has reinvented its proposal for a $535 million redevelopment of the south side of BC Place Stadium as what they are calling an urban resort that plays up entertainment and plays down gambling with the relocation of its Edgwater Casino on False Creek.

Paragon’s last plan, in a lease deal with the BC Pavilion Corporation, was rejected by the City of Vancouver in 2011 over the proposal’s expansion of its gaming floor, but company officials said Tuesday that they’ve listened to their opponents and the new proposal is a straight transfer of Edgewater’s existing operations to the new facility, which fits into the city’s existing rezoning approval.

Paragon, with financing partner Dundee Corp.’s and operating partner 360 Vox, a real estate management company, unveiled the revamped design Tuesday, which calls for two luxury hotels with 550 rooms, a conference centre restaurants and retail space that will be linked in with BC Place.

The overall development will be 675,000 square feet of space and create an additional 2,000 jobs within the complex. Developers are aiming for completion of the project in 2016.