General Vancouver Development Updates II - Page 70

madog222 · #**1381** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 9:20 PM**

The site frontage is 40.2m.

GenWhy? · #**1382** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 9:39 PM**

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The site frontage is 40.2m.

Good they can do the leg work for me to see if this works.

madog222 · #**1383** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 10:10 PM**

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Good they can do the leg work for me to see if this works.

It’s not even as if they are trying to treat it as a corner lot, they show a potential future tower on the bus loop site.

GenWhy? · #**1384** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

It’s not even as if they are trying to treat it as a corner lot, they show a potential future tower on the bus loop site.

It's great because they've already done the enquiry and got this far, and if they get approved then that means under 150-foot sites can proceed, which means I don't have to waste my time arguing between Staff and Clients.

Win-win. Such a profound waste of resources and money though. Like why 150-feet? It's so wide

jollyburger · #**1385** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 12:52 AM**

PCI's page for the project

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We have submitted our proposal to the City of Vancouver in May 2025, and we are now officially within the regular City-led public process which includes further public consultation, a proposal review by the City’s Planning & Engineering Departments and committees (including Urban Design Panel), and an eventual Public Hearing at Council.

At this stage, we are receiving input from the community and interested stakeholders, and there will be further opportunities for community input as the process progresses. If everything goes smoothly, we anticipate construction to start in 2026 and to take roughly 3 years to complete.

https://pcionhastings.com/

logan5 · #**1386** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

It's great because they've already done the enquiry and got this far, and if they get approved then that means under 150-foot sites can proceed, which means I don't have to waste my time arguing between Staff and Clients.

Win-win. Such a profound waste of resources and money though. Like why 150-feet? It's so wide

To maintain separation between towers would probly be why.

The City (or proposals) doesn't seem to be following any policy guidelines, which can be a good thing. Some policy guidelines are way too restrictive.

officedweller · #**1387** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 9:02 AM**

If towers were properly designed so that side walls on mid-block towers don't have principal windows, separation wouldn't be as much an issue. Towers in the West End abided by that in the 60s and 70s.
There's nothing wrong with a blank wall with a few punched out windows.

jollyburger · #**1388** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 6:21 PM**

That BC Housing at Clark/E 1st looks like it'll be ready for a tower crane soon.

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

Glow Fun City · #**1389** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 11:58 PM**

PNE Amphitheatre update as I load in at the Coliseum today…

All photos by me today (August 14th 2025)

idunno · #**1390** Posted **Aug 14, 2025, 11:59 PM**

Looking so good!

officedweller · #**1391** Posted **Aug 15, 2025, 12:57 AM**

Nice, thanks!

gaviscon · #**1392** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 5:24 PM**

485 Commercial is fully demolished and excavators were digging. This was 2 weeks ago. Forgot to mention it.

Changing City · #**1393** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 7:08 PM**

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485 Commercial is fully demolished and excavators were digging. This was 2 weeks ago. Forgot to mention it.

The site has been cleared, but I'm not sure if it's being excavated yet. If so, then this must have been resolved - "The Director of Planning has requested you be advised this development application was cancelled on April 14, 2025."

jollyburger · #**1394** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 8:10 PM**

It was a demolition to grade that seemed to wrap up last week. I assume this comes back with more density considering the other tower applications popping up on East Hastings.

logan5 · #**1395** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 8:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

It was a demolition to grade that seemed to wrap up last week. I assume this comes back with more density considering the other tower applications popping up on East Hastings.

Are you suggesting they will come back with a tower application here? There's only the Grandview/Woodlands plan that covers this site - 3.0 FSR/6 stories.

Feathered Friend · #**1396** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 8:58 PM**

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https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/520-590...10-4550-ash-st

City Duo @City_Duo
Having lost in the council of public opinion, the opponents of a 6 floor, 230 home rental building at Ash & W 28th Ave are taking their fight to the courts. While costly, judicial reviews are increasingly being used to slow, & halt growing density

https://x.com/City_Duo/status/1951037824750539000

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Cambie residents seek judicial review of large-scale rental housing project
Vancouver council approved proposal in July for two six-storey buildings, two three-storey townhouses on West 29th Avenue
Mike Howell

The Cambie Corridor Neighbourhood Association is seeking a judicial review of Vancouver city council’s unanimous approval in July of a large-scale housing project that will not include below-market rental homes.

The association filed a petition Aug. 8 in BC Supreme Court that requests council’s July 8 decision to approve Sightline Properties Ltd.’s rezoning application for 230 market rental units be quashed or set aside until another public hearing is held.

https://www.biv.com/news/cambie-resi...ouver-11083462

As expected, this group has moved on from just making threats, and now has submitted an official petition asking a court to squash the rezoning approval.

jollyburger · #**1397** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 10:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Are you suggesting they will come back with a tower application here? There's only the Grandview/Woodlands plan that covers this site - 3.0 FSR/6 stories.

Maybe not a tower but something up to the 10-12 storey range and something more dense along East Hastings? It just seems weird to have a lot of density planned for the DTES up to Clark and suddenly stop there.

I assume the Vancouver Plan and the Rapid Transit Areas might enable this?

seamusmcduff · #**1398** Posted **Aug 16, 2025, 11:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://www.biv.com/news/cambie-resi...ouver-11083462

As expected, this group has moved on from just making threats, and now has submitted an official petition asking a court to squash the rezoning approval.

Seeing as there was a public hearing with the application, I'm not sure what they expect to happen. Yes it doesn't completely align with the TOA reqs or Cambie corridor plan, but the application will just need an amendment to the plan. The public heard this info at the public hearing, council heard the public's concerns, and still approved the project. I'm confused what the argument is, other than that they don't like it.

Changing City · #**1399** Posted **Aug 17, 2025, 2:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Maybe not a tower but something up to the 10-12 storey range and something more dense along East Hastings? It just seems weird to have a lot of density planned for the DTES up to Clark and suddenly stop there.

I assume the Vancouver Plan and the Rapid Transit Areas might enable this?

The DTES Plan has for many years allowed bigger (taller) buildings than the Grandview-Woodland Plan. The recent changes to the DTES Plan allows development of significantly taller buildings, but only for social housing or rental, not for strata homes (which is what Cressey were proposing on Commercial Drive). Their 2022 project (which now has no DP) was submitted under MC-1 zoning, and had 40 strata-titled dwelling units, 10 market rental dwelling units, with five office units and three retail units. The site is also not on East Hastings, but rather on East Pender and Commercial.

There are alraedy much bigger buildings approved on or near Commercial Drive - but they're also social housing. Unless Cressey want to sell the site, or to apply for a rezoning with a different tenure, there isn't any policy I can see that would allow a 12 storey building on that site.

jollyburger · #**1400** Posted **Aug 17, 2025, 3:17 AM**

Page 63 This seems to include the Hastings corridor and other RapidBus routes.

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vancouver-plan.pdf

But I guess the coming Vancouver ODP won't override any existing local area plans like Grandview.

EDIT: There was a indigenous community centre/housing project from 2022 on that empty lot to the north

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/urba...mmunity-centre

EDIT 2: In 2024 there were new building grades for two 24 storey towers

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This request pertains to 1606 E Hastings. There are two possible development scenarios. The first scenario is to develop 1606 E Hastings alone, with a total site area of 16,104 square feet (132 feet fronting East Hastings Street and 122 feet fronting Woodland Drive) that consists of 2-4 levels of parking, a 4-storey podium and a 24-storey tower. The second scenario combines 1606 E Hastings with 1618-1680 E Hastings, for which building grades have already been provided on 10-14-2022 (file reference 2022-00168), that consists of 2 levels of parking, a 6-storey podium, and two 24-storey towers.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public...ctId=235535435