Vancouver City Council

COUNCIL MEETING FOLLOWING
PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT MEETING

FEBRUARY 12, 2004

DECISIONS

For information, please contact Laura Kazakoff, Meeting Coordinator,
at 604.871.6353 (e-mail laura_kazakoff@city.vancouver.bc.ca)

At its meeting immediately following the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment meeting on February 12, 2004, Vancouver City Council approved the following.

1. Significant New Rezoning Applications

(a) 955 Burrard Street (YMCA), 969 Burrard Street (First Baptist Church) and 1017-1045 Nelson Street

(b) 2950-2990 and 3150 Celtic Avenue

For information only.

2. Proposed Amendment to Subdivision By-law No. 5208

A. THAT Council approve the application to reclassify the property at 7012 Nanaimo Street from Category B to Category A of Table 1, Schedule A, of Subdivision By-law No. 5208

B. THAT if Council approves Recommendation A, the Director of Legal Services be authorized to prepare the necessary by-law amending the Subdivision By-law implementing the required changes.

3. Financing Growth - Clarifications to New City-Wide Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) Policy

A. THAT the boundary of the Downtown negotiated CAC area be defined as follows: the West End and Downtown Local Areas (Stanley Park on the west, Main Street on the east, Burrard waterfront on the north, and Terminal Avenue and False Creek waterfront on the south), and, beyond this, the boundaries of zoning districts which overlap both sides of Main and/or Terminal, as shown on Map 2a in Appendix A of the Policy Report dated January 26, 2004, entitled "Financing Growth - Clarifications to New City-Wide Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) Policy".

B. THAT for the 16 sub-areas previously excluded from the City-Wide CAC Area:

i. The 8 sub-areas in the Downtown be included in the City-Wide CAC Area, as shown by comparing Maps 1 and 2 in Appendix A of the Policy Report dated January 26, 2004, entitled "Financing Growth - Clarifications to New City-Wide Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) Policy", and the guidelines for negotiated CACs include reference to existing area plans and policies.
ii. The 8 sub-areas outside the Downtown remain excluded from the City-Wide CAC Area, as shown on Map 2; and if there are future rezoning applications that depart from what was anticipated by area-specific plans and policies, an appropriate CAC be determined as part of the rezoning process, having regard to the guidelines described in this report.

C. THAT for False Creek Flats and Grandview-Boundary, the "No CAC" policies for change of use rezonings be rescinded, to be consistent with the City-Wide CAC Policy.

D. THAT, rather than reporting each Non-Standard rezoning to Council to determine if it should be a flat rate CAC or a negotiated CAC, all Non-Standard rezonings be negotiated CACs - unless the applicant requests a report to Council at the beginning of the rezoning process.

BY-LAWS

1. A By-law to amend Vancouver Development Cost Levy By-law No. 8149

(By-law No. 8786)

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