A rezoning application has been submitted for the redevelopment of a site in the Central Lonsdale area of Vancouver.
The site is located at 1536-1550 Eastern Avenue, directly South of a project completed by Anthem Properties in 2022. A previous application was made for the site in 2022 that included a two-level, 18-space childcare facility. The application was denied by the City of North Vancouver.
The revised application includes a 13-storey market rental building with a smaller childcare space on the ground floor, including:
Adera has submitted a rezoning application for a 14,932 sq ft. site they own at 1220 St. Georges Avenue at the Northeast corner of St. George’s and East 12th in the Central Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. The site is one block south of the Lions Gate Hospital and east of the Fire Hall.
The proposal would replace an existing 23-unit rental apartment building at 1220 St. Georges that was built in the late 1950s.
The proposal for the site is a new 6-storey rental building that includes:
Cressey has submitted their formal rezoning application for the 81,450 SF site that they own at 250 East 15th Street in North Vancouver, just North of Lions Gate Hospital.
The site is currently improved with two older lowrise apartment buildings totaling 101 units.
Cressey has owned the buildings for several decades, and began community consultation for the project in early 2019.
The site contains two designations – one designation each for the south and north portions of the site -within the Official Community Plan: Residential Level 5 (R5) to the north and Residential Level 6 (R6) to the south.
The formal rezoning application consists of three rental residential buildings -two 12-storey buildings adjacent to East 15th Street and one 6-storey building adjacent to East 16th Street, and the provision of a public park on the site’s north-eastern quadrant.
Details include:
281 market rental units, including 28 mid-market units;
The application describes the design rationale: “The principle design element of the project, aside from the provision of the public park, is the span between the two 12-storey buildings along 15th Street. The proposed span will host the majority of the shared amenity spaces for the complex, including a games room, a reception area, a large lounge, washrooms, and a bookable event space that could be used for hosting a party or a cooking class for the building. The spaces will be available to the tenants of all three buildings and the applicant has stated the importance of forming a community for tenants that will provide renters with a greater social experience than a traditional rental building. Significant glazing of these amenity spaces will support the activation and attractiveness of the streetscape on East 15th Street and will provide passive surveillance of the bus stop located directly in front of the proposed project. Other street frontages are activated through the inclusion of at-grade entrances to units, or where the grade does not support entrances, balconies and landscaping are utilized to ensure an attractive and activated interface between the public and private realms. A rooftop amenity space – only accessible to residents – is included on the 6-storey building and the connecting span that includes: community garden plots, planters for additional vegetation, a lounge area and outdoor dining/cooking area, as well as a greenhouse structure with a washroom. The easternmost 12-storey building includes a rooftop component only accessible to the tenants of the top units.”