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Originally Posted by fredinno
This is a good place to put the 'town center' of Point Grey. IMO, Vancouver needs more suburban town centers than just Oakridge, which would increase max density here
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What is the definition of "suburban town center"?
IMO, every Skytrain station in Vancouver (including unbuilt stations along Broadway, 41, 49, Hastings) should see anything within 500 metres re-zoned for high-density mixed use developments (e.g., 40+ stories). The gaps between these high-density areas and every arterial should allow up to six story mixed use, while the city's current plan of four or six units on every SFH lot should be implemented.
Vancouver proper is too small and too close to downtown for any neighbourhood to retain the "suburban" feel long-term. And what the town centers are accomplishing in Burnaby or the Tri-Cities, where you have a town of density around stations but no change to SFH neighbourhoods isn't enough.
Honestly, Vancouver should take this Jericho proposal, and copy and paste it onto the Expo and Canada lines. Use the east and west clusters as a model for the blocks surrounding the stations, and allow the same mid-rise buildings on the rest of the corridors. The Jericho FSR is 2.5; Vancouver would no long have a housing crisis if the city had an overall FSR approaching that figure.
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