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[Sheba]

Originally Posted by CanSpice

The District of North Vancouver rejected a rezoning proposal for below-market-rental housing last night.

Any time you see a councillor or mayor say "we are not against affordable housing but..." they're actually against affordable housing.

You expected a different result?

The District of North Vancouver has decided against rezoning a parking lot that would have created a seniors' respite care centre and rental housing at below market rates.

Council rejected the proposed rezoning of 600 West Queens Rd., following contentious public hearings that took place in the summer under the previous municipal government.

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The proposal would have seen the district give land currently owned by the municipality to the Catalyst Community Developments Society. The ground level would have been a seniors' respite care facility, and the second to fifth storeys rental housing.

Rent for all 80 units would have been priced below the market average, from $1,000-$1,260 for a studio to $1,663-$2,550 for a three-bedroom unit.

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The vote was 5-2, with councillors Matthew Bond and Jordan Back supporting the project.

"If we can do better, please define what better is," said Bond to councillors in opposition.

"This is our land. Council has complete control of the process. So some of these concerns I'm a little bit baffled by .... 80 good affordable rental homes is better than zero perfect ones."

The municipal election in the district was fought mainly on issues of development, with new mayor Mike Little campaigning on slowing down the pace of growth in the district.

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[Spr0ckets]

So the reason they rejected it and were against it was because it was against their anti-growth agenda?

Or did they bother at all at least letting people know why they feel a parking lot would be preferable to affordable housing?

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by Tetsuo

Seeing redevelopment plans like that work better than Viagra !

Originally Posted by CanSpice

The District of North Vancouver rejected a rezoning proposal for below-market-rental housing last night.

Any time you see a councillor or mayor say "we are not against affordable housing but..." they're actually against affordable housing.

North Vancouver
Affordable

^Pick one.

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

So the reason they rejected it and were against it was because it was against their anti-growth agenda?

Or did they bother at all at least letting people know why they feel a parking lot would be preferable to affordable housing?

It's pretty dense for the area, I don't think it was that...

[CanSpice]

Originally Posted by fredinno

North Vancouver
Affordable

^Pick one.

CNV is okay, it's DNV that wants to become the next West Vancouver.

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by CanSpice

CNV is okay, it's DNV that wants to become the next West Vancouver.

This is in DNV.

[SpongeG]

Some applications for Coquitlam.

200 Marmont. Application for a 7 storey apartment building with 62 units
and just to the North of that 1036 Alderson is an application for a 6 storey building with 39 units.

Also: Development permit in for 579 Smith which is the one with the YMCA. 33 storey rental building with 308 units and 52 storey building with 468 units.

Also: Development permit in for the Hotel that will go at the Hard Rock Casino on United Blvd.

Also: 792 Clarke - Pre-application permit to construct 67 townhouses across 7 buildings.

Also: 560 Sunset. This is that area behind where Joey is, up from where the Best Western is/was. Development permit to construct four 6-storey apartment buildings with 468 units.

Also: 597 Dansey Ave.
Pre-application to rezone four lots and construct a 34 Storey tower.

ALso: 2 King Edward in the Fraser Mills redevelopment. Pre-application to construct Two towers with 410 residential units.

Also: 602 Clarke - currently little strip mall with KFC etc.
Development Permit for Phase 1 of development to construct two mixed used towers with 669 residential units and 7 townhouse units.

[osirisboy]

Wow that's crazy. And didn't you post a whole other list the other month?

[SpongeG]

yes, It's crazy how much is going on in that area.

[GMD]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

Some applications for Coquitlam.

200 Marmont. Application for a 7 storey apartment building with 62 units
and just to the North of that 1036 Alderson is an application for a 6 storey building with 39 units.

Also: Development permit in for 579 Smith which is the one with the YMCA. 33 storey rental building with 308 units and 52 storey building with 468 units.

Also: Development permit in for the Hotel that will go at the Hard Rock Casino on United Blvd.

Also: 792 Clarke - Pre-application permit to construct 67 townhouses across 7 buildings.

Also: 560 Sunset. This is that area behind where Joey is, up from where the Best Western is/was. Development permit to construct four 6-storey apartment buildings with 468 units.

Also: 597 Dansey Ave.
Pre-application to rezone four lots and construct a 34 Storey tower.

ALso: 2 King Edward in the Fraser Mills redevelopment. Pre-application to construct Two towers with 410 residential units.

Also: 602 Clarke - currently little strip mall with KFC etc.
Development Permit for Phase 1 of development to construct two mixed used towers with 669 residential units and 7 townhouse units.

Thanks for all the updates. I guess if 602 Clarke has 669 units in 2 towers, and the Y development had 776 across 85 stories, then we can expect roughly 73 stories between the two 602 Clarke towers, maybe 45 and 28? Just trying to picture it, with the 49 story at 567 Clarke tower kitty corner, and the two 20-something towers across the street behind the Safeway (Skytrain guideway occupying the 4th corner).

[SpongeG]

This is about the 29 Storey on Cottonwood posted earlier

Burquitlam highrise planned for Cottonwood

Comes up short on parking, council concerned offer to make up for it not enough

Grant Granger / Tri-City News
NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Plans call for the four levels of underground parking to have 310 spaces, although the city requires 330. To make up for being 20 spaces short, the developer is proposing to provide transit passes valued at $340,000 and $60,000 as payment in-lieu.

Despite the concerns, council approved going ahead with a public hearing for the rezoning application.

https://www.tricitynews.com/real-estate/burquitlam-highrise-planned-for-cottonwood-1.23505370

[Aroundtheworld]

^ Good. Minimum parking requirements are excessive across the region and add a significant cost to housing.

[officedweller]

Molson-Coors in Chilliwack:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...on-coors-plant-takes-shape-in-chilliwack


Drone image of the new Molson Coors brewery in Chilliwack taken on November 30, 2018. (Molson Coors/Matthew Hawkins) [PNG Merlin Archive]. Richard Lam / PNG
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...on-coors-plant-takes-shape-in-chilliwack

[bc2mb]

Big redevelopment of Royal Towers site in New Westminster...

https://urbanyvr.com/royal-towers-replac...-40-storeys-proposed-for-new-westminster

[Tetsuo]

Oh wow, that's a big one, goodbye Royal Towers with its bedbugs and rich history

[SpongeG]

it looks like a dump ever since I don't know what happened to it, did they turn it into a homeless shelter or welfare housing?

[SpongeG]

a few columns in Coquitlam at the Burquitlam plaza/safeway area have had some artsy screens installed

2018-12-03_11-49-12 by snub_you, on Flickr

2018-12-03_11-48-33 by snub_you, on Flickr

2018-12-03_11-48-55 by snub_you, on Flickr

[officedweller]

Nice! except that if they had thought about it,
they would have placed the panels to screen the conduits.

[SpongeG]

thats what i was thinking too.

[vanman]

Interesting. Are all the columns in Coquitlam lit up like these ones?