General Vancouver Development Updates II - Page 64

jollyburger · #**1261** Posted **Apr 25, 2025, 8:08 PM**

I would try the Wayback Machine

Chapter 3

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...03_booklet.pdf

Chapter 4

https://web.archive.org/web/20111103...04_booklet.pdf

SFUVancouver · #**1262** Posted **Apr 25, 2025, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I would try the Wayback Machine

Chapter 3

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...03_booklet.pdf

Chapter 4

https://web.archive.org/web/20111103...04_booklet.pdf

I am hugely appreciative for you sharing these. I had previously tried to find these, even using the Wayback Machine, but didn't have success. If you have found the other chapters in this format, please point me towards them. Seriously, this is a White Whale situation. I have been trying to track down the whole booklet for years. Watching the Olympic Village get planned and built was the formative experience that solidified my desire to become a planner, which I accomplished.

jollyburger · #**1263** Posted **Apr 25, 2025, 10:06 PM**

Chapter 1

https://web.archive.org/web/20181105...01_booklet.pdf

Chapter 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...02_booklet.pdf

Chapter 5

https://web.archive.org/web/20160530...05_booklet.pdf

Chapter 6

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...06_booklet.pdf

Chapter 7

https://web.archive.org/web/20181105...07_booklet.pdf

VPL Central Branch seems to have a copy of the book in the special collection as well

https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C6774600

madog222 · #**1264** Posted **Apr 25, 2025, 11:39 PM**

Another Telus central office redevelopment, this one on E 49th off Fraser.

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6486 Chester St - Application recently submitted. Staff preparing notification - To rezone from R1-1 to CD-1 to allow for the development of a 6-storey residential rental building with 115 units under the Secured Rental Policy. An FSR of 2.74 and a building height of 22.1 m (73 ft.) are proposed. There is relocation of the existing TELUS telecommunications utility building ("Central Office") to the northeast corner of the site.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=261172749

seamusmcduff · #**1265** Posted **Apr 26, 2025, 12:50 AM**

Development permit finally submitted for the empty lot at 19th and main along with the heritage building there.

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/3510-main-st

jollyburger · #**1266** Posted **Apr 27, 2025, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

1716 Clark, on the SE corner at 1st Ave, had a building permit approved for soil remediation back in December. Now, the last few cars that had been stored on the site have been moved so we may actually see something happening.
The cardlock that previously occupied the site was demolished almost a decade ago.

Four years ago an initial submission was made for a 3fsr commercial building.

All the cars are back

https://trafficcams.vancouver.ca/clark4.htm

Seems like they've changed the refresh rate on the street camera images. It's like five minutes now it used to be 10 or 15 minutes (?)

madog222 · #**1267** Posted **Apr 27, 2025, 10:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Seems like they've changed the refresh rate on the street camera images. It's like five minutes now it used to be 10 or 15 minutes (?)

Nice. Yes, it was 15min before.

SFUVancouver · #**1268** Posted **Apr 28, 2025, 4:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Chapter 1

https://web.archive.org/web/20181105...01_booklet.pdf

Chapter 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...02_booklet.pdf

Chapter 5

https://web.archive.org/web/20160530...05_booklet.pdf

Chapter 6

https://web.archive.org/web/20150514...06_booklet.pdf

Chapter 7

https://web.archive.org/web/20181105...07_booklet.pdf

VPL Central Branch seems to have a copy of the book in the special collection as well

https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C6774600

Sincerely, thank you. This is amazing to have again. It feels like finding an old yearbook or something from a very formative time like that.

jollyburger · #**1269** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 9:32 PM**

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'Historically significant find': More military artifacts found during excavation of PNE land

The discovery — which includes four German machine-guns and two cannons from the 1870s — follows the unearthing last month of a captured German howitzer from the First World War.

A news released Wednesday by released by PNE spokesperson Laura Ballance said all of the findings have been moved to a secure storage location.

https://vancouversun.com/news/histor...on-of-pne-land

jollyburger · #**1270** Posted **May 2, 2025, 7:08 PM**

Bonnis deal to sell Main/Union site fails after buyer backs out

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"In the present case, Bonnis took the position in the litigation that the Agreements were void and unenforceable, and remained silent for months about what, if any, steps it was taking towards completion, in breach of its contractual obligation to keep Epix informed and involved," said the judge. "Then without warning, on December 1, 2022, Bonnis suddenly re-engaged by announcing it was close to securing the rezoning enactment and requesting that Epix lift the CPL. Through December 2022, Bonnis suggested (indirectly at first, and then explicitly on December 27, 2022) that the Agreements were valid and enforceable and demanded Epix take steps on expedited timeframes. When Epix did not take those steps, Bonnis asserted a repudiatory breach."

"As Bonnis did not cure the continuing breach of its contractual obligations in December 2022, Epix was entitled to accept Bonnis’ repudiation and terminate the Agreements as it did on December 30, 2022," the judge added. "For the reasons expressed above, it is not fatal that Epix did not provide a specific reason for accepting the repudiation in its December 30, 2022 email. Epix has established through trial that reasons existed at that date that can support its acceptance of Bonnis’ repudiation. Accordingly, I find Epix validly terminated the Agreements as of December 30, 2022."

https://storeys.com/bonnis-propertie...ancouver-epix/

Changing City · #**1271** Posted **May 2, 2025, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Bonnis deal to sell Main/Union site fails after buyer backs out

I think that story should have been written in the past tense. It was reported that since that deal fell through, BC Housing had acquired the site from Bonnie's for a non-market housing building with the Hogan's Alley Society to run it. There's a revised (slightly taller) design, to allow higher floor to ceiling heights.

jollyburger · #**1272** Posted **May 2, 2025, 8:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

I think that story should have been written in the past tense. It was reported that since that deal fell through, BC Housing had acquired the site from Bonnie's for a non-market housing building with the Hogan's Alley Society to run it. There's a revised (slightly taller) design, to allow higher floor to ceiling heights.

Doesn't Hogan's Alley own it with a mortgage from CHMC?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/796-...social-housing

Changing City · #**1273** Posted **May 2, 2025, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Doesn't Hogan's Alley own it with a mortgage from CHMC?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/796-...social-housing

Yes, I was mistaken about how it was funded to end up as a social housing site. It's federal, rather than provincial funding that covered the purchase. I was confusing it with the purchase of the Keefer Rooms, close by, that BC Housing bought in 2023.

The Epix puchase that fell through was before the sale by Bonnis to Hogan's Alley Society. There's no sign of anything happening to the Main Street site yet.

jollyburger · #**1274** Posted **May 5, 2025, 4:32 AM**

Some photos of the PNE Amphitheatre roof arches going up

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJJ8tb6PBSh/

jollyburger · #**1275** Posted **May 14, 2025, 12:14 AM**

Vancouver GM Of Planning Josh White On The Policy Changes During His First Year

A lot of broad and generalized statements about zoning/development policy. Some "new" points

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We're doing South Vancouver industrial work. We're doing area planning work within Railtown as well, like around zoning. Some people might be aware of some of the zoning we're doing in the Downtown Eastside as well. Villages planning within Vancouver Plan, we have 17 villages in the planning stages that will come next year. And then we have a lot of different, what I would call, kind of system changes to how our planning system will work, whether it's a new development charge levy by-law, amenity cost charge by-law, inclusionary by-law, new district schedules, pre- zoning, that all points us towards a different type of planning system.

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We have over 2,200 pages of city-wide design and development guide policies here, there, and everywhere over many decades and we will be taking the first steps this summer and consolidating that work. It's actually very difficult to even understand what our priorities are trying to wade through that much complex and layered policy, and what we need is a much clearer expression, a much simpler expression, a much more user-friendly expression of what our policies are and so consolidating that and radically simplifying that work is on the horizon very soon and that will fit into our overall approach to planning.

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There's immediate short-term actions that we could take and we're taking a suite of actions to Council on June 18th. We heard feedback around kind of just the timing of payment of things like development charges, taking that payment later in the process as opposed to upfront can help with the cash flow of the project and financing the project, so we're proposing some programs around deferring that payment to later and managing the financial impacts of that cash flow to the city. That applies both to City of Vancouver DCLs and also Metro [Vancouver] development charges. Increased use of things like surety bonds over letters of credit again have a lot to do with freeing up capital in order to deliver housing. Timing and payment of cash CACs as well, more flexibility on tower floor plates to improve viability given some of the pressures on the efficiency of buildings for building codes and things like that and energy codes, just providing a bit more flexibility allows projects to pencil out a little bit better without really much perceivable impact in terms of our urban design.

https://storeys.com/josh-white-vanco...one-interview/

jollyburger · #**1276** Posted **May 15, 2025, 1:12 AM**

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3448 Cornett Rd - formerly 2772 Natal St (DP-2024-00980) development application
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WZMH Architects has applied to the City of Vancouver for permission to develop a three-storey (mechanical on roof) Transportation and Storage Use building containing Bulk Data Storage, consisting of:

A proposed height of approximately 68 ft. / 20.7 m to top of mechanical appurtenances
A proposed Floor Space Ratio of 1.27 for the site (approximately 49,720 sq. ft. / 4,620 m²)
Four vehicle parking spaces, having access from Natal Street

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/3448-cornett-rd

Rendering shows it's for Cologix which has data centres at 555 W Hastings, 1050 W Pender, 2828 Natal, 175 W Cordova nad 555 W Hastings

jollyburger · #**1277** Posted **May 15, 2025, 7:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

Another Telus central office redevelopment, this one on E 49th off Fraser.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=261172749

The rezoning

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The City of Vancouver has received an application to rezone the subject site from R1-1 (Residential Inclusive) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is to allow for the development of a six-storey mixed-use building and includes:

116 rental units;
A telecommunications facility on the northeast corner of the site;
An overall floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.89; and
A building height of 22.1 m (73 ft.).

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/6486-chester-st

madog222 · #**1278** Posted **May 16, 2025, 7:00 PM**

Dunbar Loop TOD proposal on Dunbar just north of SW Marine.

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There will be a rezoning application under TOA (Transit Orientated Area) Policy targeting max. 3.0 FSR and max. 8 storey all rental apartment.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=247224861

logan5 · #**1279** Posted **May 16, 2025, 8:11 PM**

It’s been almost a year since the TOA policy has come into effect. I would have thought there would be a lot more proposals under this policy by now, especially for towers, which developers love.

csbvan · #**1280** Posted **May 16, 2025, 8:33 PM**

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It’s been almost a year since the TOA policy has come into effect. I would have thought there would be a lot more proposals under this policy by now, especially for towers, which developers love.

Most future tower sites don't rely on TOAs. In the City of Vancouver alone there is so much tower development capacity along the Broadway Corridor, Cambie Corridor, and Rupert/Renfrew based on new-ish land use plans, I doubt there is a huge desire to use TOAs to go to lesser station areas. I expect these types of buildings, lower-rise, which are cheaper, less risky and quicker to build, will be more popular TOA-based rezonings.