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Originally Posted by Spr0ckets
Um...no, it likely won't.
The reason they're able to propose a development that tall and that dense there is because that pocket of land where the Boot sits, occupies the sliver between the border with Vancouver and Burnaby's only existing viewcone protecting Central Park views to Brentwood.
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I can't find my prior post on this topic but I have looked into this view cone and it's not really view cone like a Vancouver view cone. There is no height restriction documented and there's no specifics on what exactly the view is that needs to be maintained. It only said something to the effect that preservation of the views between Brentwood and Swangard should be considered - it was a single sentence in the planning doc. It took me quite a bit of digging to track it down so I don't want to go do it again but it's not a real view cone in the Vancouver sense unless there's some behind the scenes, unpublished documentation on this that I can't get access to.
That said, I suspect there would be lower height limits between Brentwood and Swangard but we're still talking 10-12 story buildings versus the 70 story stuff Burnaby likes to approve. 10-12 stories scattered all the way up to Burke is a LOT of density.
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Originally Posted by Spr0ckets
It's not an unreasonable proposal in my opinion - a lot of people feel it's too close to either Patterson or Joyce-Collingwood stops to justify adding a stop there, but there are other stops on the line that have even shorter distances between them (admittedly mostly in Downtown Vancouver).
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AIUI the provision for a station is right at Boundary which would put the station about 800m from Patterson and about 1100m from Joyce - not an unreasonable distance between stations.
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