SUPPORTS ITEM NO. 1
P & E COMMITTEE AGENDA
JUNE 7, 2001
SIGNIFICANT REZONING APPLICATIONS
1. Address: 335, 341 and 349 East 16th Avenue Present Zone: RM-4N
Applicant: Davidson Yuen Simpson Architects Proposed Zone: CD-1
Heritage Listing: n/a
Date of Previous Inquiry: January 31, 2001
Date of Application: May 7, 2001
Staff Contact: P. Mondor, E. Fiss, A. Kloppenborg, C. Gray
Proposal: · A four-storey wood frame building containing Multiple Dwelling (10 two- and three-bedroom dwellings for transitional housing) and Special Needs Residential Facility - Group Living (18 sleeping rooms for short-term emergency shelter accommodation). FSR of 1.45 and height of 11.5 m (37.7 feet). Yard and horizontal angle of daylight requirements are met. Rezoning is required in order to permit Multiple Dwelling and SNRF in same building.
· The site consists of three adjacent lots, recently consolidated, currently developed with three single-family dwellings.
· The owner of "St. Elizabeth Home" will be the St James Community Service Society (at 347 East Cordova St.), who will operate the facility as a shelter for women and children who are victims of (or at risk for) domestic violence.
· The applicants have concerns about high levels of publicity during any application process, from the point of view of the security of the ultimate users.
· As this is a Vancouver Agreement project with critical funding challenges and time constraints, this SHORT rezoning application will be fast-tracked with development application to be processed concurrently. Aiming for referral report to Council in late June (for Public Hearing July 26).
Issues: · Some neighbourhood concern about the density and form of development is anticipated given the single-family dwelling development which prevails on both sides of the street.
Note: The north side of East 16th Avenue was rezoned from RT-2 to RM-4N in 1989, as recommended in the Community Development Plan for Mount Pleasant (1987), to provide a better transition between apartment development in the area to the north and lower-scale housing development to the south.