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Originally Posted by owenhujb
Cannot agree more. Doesn’t Burnaby have a plan to slowly taper down the heights of the buildings in this area? That’s a huge jump from height (53 -> 14)
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It might have something to do with the fact that that second tower is the non-market/rental portion of the project and is being partially funded or financed in partnership with BC Housing.
So I guess a lot depends, or depended on how much they wanted to do and build (or were able to).
The city of Burnaby, probably only cared about replacing the housing in the walkups in those two lots that were demolished in order to build this project (which I think we can agree that even this small tower completely covers); while the developer probably only cares about the market portion of this project (i.e the 53 storey tower) which is what's making them money - , while BC Housing on the other hand, are only working within the bounds of whatever funding they're able to get and thus provide.
Probably the city could have (and should have) pushed for more on the non-market portion and have that smaller tower be bigger, but then again this project was approved while the previous administration was in power and the pressure to deal with the housing crisis and demovictions wasn't so pronounced (even if it was there) as it is now.
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