Don't really like creating new threads, but I couldn't find one where this would really fit. Besides I'm sure this is going to gather many responses. Personally I'm a fan of the view cones, but agree they could use a few tweaks here and there. Anyways onto the goods. The COV today released an RFP to study the view cones. (all the goods ones are on Friday afternoons so the media doesn't jump all over them
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I hacked down the document as much as I could.
There will be two public input surveys completed and the final report will be due Oct 15, 2009.
The following view corridors are under review.
View Corridors in Review:
12.1.1 – Granville Bridge above Granville Island to Crown/Grouse Mountain
12.1.2 - Granville Bridge at mid-point to Crown/Grouse Mountain
12.1.3 - Granville Bridge above north shore edge to Crown/Grouse Mountain
12.2 - Granville Bridge at mid-point to Mount Seymour
A – Alder Terrace viewing platform below Lamey’s Mill Road to Mount Seymour
B1 – Charleson Seawall below Charleson Park to the Lions
B2 - Charleson Seawall below Charleson Park to Crown/Grouse
C1 – Laurel Landbride (north end) to the Lions
C2 – Laurel Landbridge (north end) to Crown/Grouse (includes C2.1 & C2.2)
D – Heather Bay water’s edge at Leg in Boot Square
E1 – Cambie Bridge from mid point to Crown/Grouse
E2 – Cambie Bridge above the south shore of False Creek to Mount Seymour
(includes E2.1 & E2.2)
9.1 –Cambie Street between 10th and 11th Avenues to North Shore Mountains
9.2 –Cambie Street at 12th Avenue to North Shore Mountains (includes 9.2.1 & 9.2.2)
3.1 –Queen Elizabeth Park viewing area north of conservatory to Downtown Skyline
3.2 -Queen Elizabeth Park viewing area north of conservatory to North Shore Mtns.
(includes 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.4a & 3.2.4b)
Heres a pic to see what that are talking about.
The purpose of the Downtown Capacity and View Corridors Study is to review the adopted policies on height limits and view corridors and recommend changes to achieve additional development capacity in the Downtown.
A key component of the study is to balance public values between views/heights and other public objectives that might benefit from additional benefit capacity. Benefit capacity is the additional building height, density or other development allowance, beyond the base zoning of a site, which has been approved by City Council. While City staff and Project resources are sufficient to understand the desirability of these trade- offs from directly impacted groups (e.g. heritage groups, developers, residents who benefit from protected views), a Contractor is required to complete a public input survey to establish a similar understanding from a statistically valid cross section of all Vancouver residents who also benefit from these protected views.
The scope of the RFP is to create and complete a two (2)stage public input survey and to provide services including analyzing information from these surveys. This public input survey will be a systematic collection of public opinions, attitudes, responses on facts, and value through questionnaires to determine priorities and levels of support for proposed changes. The survey will be pertaining to the issues of public attitudes and values towards public views, view corridors modifications, revised building height limits, alternative downtown development scenarios and additional development potential to achieve public benefits for the citizens of Vancouver.
The main objectives of the public survey are to:
a) prioritize the importance of individual view corridors;
b) test the acceptability of modifications to view corridors;
This is still very early in the process, remember this is only a study, it will then need to be reviewed, adjusted, reviewed again, before it ever goes to council to be voted on.
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