Jericho Lands | 49fl | 13.6M sqft | Proposed - Page 7

Migrant_Coconut · #**121** Posted **Apr 14, 2025, 8:53 PM**

Once the SkyTrain comes in, almost everything between Sasamat, Highbury and 14th gets auto-rezoned for multiplexes. So we have that as well.

jollyburger · #**122** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 1:45 AM**

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First homes at Jericho Lands development in Vancouver could open in 2032

New Coun. Lucy Maloney asked city staff for a timeline on construction. She learned that the development will be done in phases, starting on the westernmost edge alongside Trimble Park, and that it will take three to four years to get the first rezoning complete and then an additional three years in construction. Assuming the provincial government approves a subway extension from Arbutus Street to Macdonald Street, and then the Jericho Lands, the final housing will open in 25 years.

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Council also learned that half of the buildings on the site will be 18 storeys or less and may be built using mass timber. There are three proposed “sentinel towers” that will be 49 storeys. These towers were the source of much of the opposition, while those in favour liked that it was a planned development with 20 acres set aside for parks.

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On April 12, a large home in the 4300-block of West 8th Avenue, directly opposite the site of the first Jericho Lands building, was listed at $5.58 million, which is $1.5 million less than its assessed value. Despite having a home valued at $1.7 million on the land, the property price is close to its land value only.

5.58 million. Crying.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...-first-nations

gaviscon · #**123** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 1:50 AM**

I'm surprised the assessed value was only 7.1 million??

That's still one of the best neighbourhoods you can find in all of Canada.

jollyburger · #**124** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 2:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by gaviscon

I'm surprised the assessed value was only 7.1 million??

That's still one of the best neighbourhoods you can find in all of Canada.

3800 sq ft house, $37,679 (2024) property tax, built in 2007

https://www.remax.ca/luxury/bc/vanco...1-r2989938-lst

WarrenC12 · #**125** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 3:37 PM**

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it will take three to four years to get the first rezoning complete

I guess we aren't in a housing emergency after all. What a joke.

jollyburger · #**126** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 4:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

I guess we aren't in a housing emergency after all. What a joke.

Do they even have funding lined up yet?

griswold · #**127** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 4:56 PM**

Why does it take 3-4 years to rezone undeveloped land? Are they only allowed to read one sentence of the proposal per week? This city is moronic.

giallo · #**128** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 5:08 PM**

Absolutely insane timeframe. Nothing's changed.

jollyburger · #**129** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by griswold

Why does it take 3-4 years to rezone undeveloped land? Are they only allowed to read one sentence of the proposal per week? This city is moronic.

Have to give NIMBYs another round to complain about their existance.

FWIW they are planning on changing some aspects of the process

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White is looking to shift building development applications into an overlapping concurrent process.

Currently, under the City’s regulations, the rezoning application (if required), development permit application, and building permit application are processed, reviewed, and approved sequentially in three separate steps in this same order.

Moving forward, the municipal government will more proactively conduct City-initiated pre-zoning, moving away from the current common practice of the time-intensive process of spot rezoning on a case-to-case basis.

Moreover, under a concurrent process, much of the rezoning and development permit application processes will have overlapping timelines, with a target to enable the rezoning, development permit, and building permit steps to be completed within one year. In recent years, the rezoning application process alone can take up to several years, especially for larger projects.

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Another area of simplification is also removing some of the complex requirements that are typically presented in the rezoning application. Instead, the detailed design work will be left to the “more appropriate” step of the development permit application, White told Daily Hive Urbanized. Instead, rezoning will only be about the basic parameters of the uses, density, and the form of development.

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Some developers may opt to pursue the rezoning enquiry process ahead of submitting a formal rezoning application for consideration.

However, White says that this rezoning enquiry process has increasingly and unintentionally resembled a second onerous rezoning application process.

Starting in Spring 2025, instead of a standard application-like process for the rezoning enquiry, the City is planning to change this process to simply a phone call or a workshop with City staff to work out some of the issues.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc...pment-policies

GenWhy? · #**130** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 5:25 PM**

Understand they cannot expedite the process because the current design is contingent on the subway extension?

EDIT: Nvm the subways looks to only affect later phases
"If the implementation of Millennium Line UBC Extension (UBCx) (including the delivery of the proposed Jericho Station) is later than the completion of development in Phase 1 or a decision is made not to build Millennium Line UBC Extension (UBCx), and/or if the alignment and Jericho Station location change significantly from the current assumption, the Jericho Lands site plan shown on Figure 2, the Jericho Lands Policy Statement, this Official Development Plan By-law, and the approach to phasing and timing of delivery of the subsequent phases will be reviewed. Adjustments will be made if necessary to ensure that future phases of development do not exceed the capacity of the site and surrounding movement network to address mobility needs in line with the City’s sustainable mobility policies. " https://council.vancouver.ca/20250311/documents/rr3.pdf

WarrenC12 · #**131** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 5:41 PM**

Obviously the subway is a big piece, but there's no reason they can't plan a bunch of stuff in advance and be ready to act if/when the subway extension is approved, or have alternative versions if it isn't.

Changing City · #**132** Posted **Apr 17, 2025, 11:48 PM**

Do we know whether there's a developer involved here yet? Presumably one of the bigger and more experienced companies will be involved in the project, once the rezoning is approved. We know Westbank partnered with the Squamish on Sen̓áḵw, (at least for the first two phases) and the Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations have partnered with Aquilini Development on kʷasən Village in Burnaby. All three first nations, and Canada Lands also partnered with Aquilini on the Heather Lands, and the Musqueam selected Polygon to develop Leləm̓.

jollyburger · #**133** Posted **Apr 18, 2025, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Do we know whether there's a developer involved here yet? Presumably one of the bigger and more experienced companies will be involved in the project, once the rezoning is approved. We know Westbank partnered with the Squamish on Sen̓áḵw, (at least for the first two phases) and the Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations have partnered with Aquilini Development on kʷasən Village in Burnaby. All three first nations, and Canada Lands also partnered with Aquilini on the Heather Lands, and the Musqueam selected Polygon to develop Leləm̓.

CityHallWatch posted a long document that said it was Aqilini but there's zero evidence that they've been selected. I mean if you were betting then it would be them. Concord Pacific wants to work with MST on the St Pauls project so maybe there's a chance they could also be a partner.

The only project they are doing in house is that tiny redevelopment in West Vancouver.