General Vancouver Development Updates II

[logan5]

Seems like more open land use policy is working, because everywhere I look now, I see a 4 to 6 story low rise going up. ChangingCity might say otherwise though.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by logan5

Seems like more open land use policy is working, because everywhere I look now, I see a 4 to 6 story low rise going up. ChangingCity might say otherwise though.

I think you're seeing a lot of 4 to six storey buildings being built. I would credit the City's 'Housing Vancouver Strategy' introduced at the end of the Vision Council era, in 2017, and then turned into detailed policies in the Kennedy Stewart Council that saw the Secured Rental Policy adopted, and then a variety of additional policy moves to allow rental buildings to go bigger than strata buildings with either an outline rezoning (with no design work needed), or from 2021 to go straight to DP. Most of those buildings are 6 storey, with a concrete main floor of commercial and woodframe apartments above, and there are over 5,000 units in around 100 buildings approved in less than five years.

I'm not sure if that's a 'more open land use policy'? I think I'd view it as a targeted series of policies to encourage more rental housing to be built, particularly on arterials, with greater height allowed if 20% of the units are leased below market. For the past three years rental housing starts were over 60% of the total in the city, and in the first half of this year it's 73%, far higher than in the rest of Metro Vancouver.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

I drove by MacDonald and 4th the other day. Weird to think there was 1 moderate size apartment building on the SE corner for what, 40+ years? Now suddenly there are two brand new ones on the NW and NE corners and now the final corner under construction. All in under 10 years from demo to move-in.

Even more impressive, there are cranes up for some new rental buildings along 16th west of Arbutus.

[Feathered Friend]

There's a list, and map of all the applications under the Secured Rental Policy (RR, CD-1, and C2 zones) over on City Duo.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/secured-rental-policy-tracker/

There's been a lot of activity in certain parts of the city, with other areas seeing no change at all. The policy was recently updated to remove the RR zone's below-market housing requirement for six-floor buildings east of Ontario St, and reduced it to 10% for applications on the West Side. The C-2 zones never had one.

[logan5]

Very strange to see 2 low rise apartments going up along 49th, a few blocks west of Killarney Secondary. I grew up in that area, and it hasn’t changed a bit in the last 40 years til now.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by csbvan

Even more impressive, there are cranes up for some new rental buildings along 16th west of Arbutus.

You can see my pictures of them here:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10586107&postcount=2106

[madog222]

Collingwood Safeway rezoning is in.

Five towers from 19 to 29 storeys with 1082 residential units at 5.82 fsr.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=306282700

[mcj]

Originally Posted by madog222

Collingwood Safeway rezoning is in.

Five towers from 19 to 29 storeys with 1082 residential units at 5.82 fsr.

https://plposweb.vancouver.ca/Public/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Guest&PosseObjectId=306282700

Impressive.

The VSB should seriously consider rebuilding Carleton and the CoV needs to extend the bus lanes along the length of Kingsway now (with recognition this is in progress).

[jollyburger]

They said it's a phased development from the early input meeting in the summer

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZQwF1j1Z8/