SUPPORTS ITEM NO. 1
P&E COMMITTEE AGENDA
JANUARY 30, 1997
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION
1. Address: 101 West Hastings Street Present Zone: DD
(the former Woodwards building)
Applicant: Brook/Farma
Staff: J. Barrett
Status of Application: Complete after a preliminary application.
Date of Application: November 1, 1996
Proposal: Mixed use:
- three floors of retail/commercial (basement, first and second floors) including a food store
in the basement, with 48 parking stalls;
- five floors of residential use which includes 197 non-market co-op dwelling units and 216
market dwelling units, for a total of 413 units;
- 500 designated parking stalls to be located in the newly acquired City-owned "Woodwards"
parkade across Cordova Street to the north; and
- the existing skywalk connection will be replaced with a smaller bridge.
SIGNIFICANT REZONING APPLICATIONS
1. Address: 6475 Elliott Street Present Zone: CD-1(13b)
(Clarendon Court) Proposed Zone: CD-1(Amend)
Applicant: Lloyd Plishka, Architect
Staff: P. Mondor
Previous Inquiry: January 25, 1996
Date of Application: November 8, 1996
Proposal: Demolish obsolete two-storey personal care home and six two-storey seniors rental apartment
buildings (100 units) and redevelop the site for market housing and non-market rental housing:
- market housing on the north part of the site would consist of 34 stacked townhouses (height
9.8 m or 3 storeys) and 56 apartments (height 12.5 m or 4 storeys);
- non-market rental housing on the south part of the site would consist of 100 apartments in
two buildings (maximum heights of 10.2 m and 12.7 m, or 3 and 4 storeys); FSR on each part of
the site would be 1.25; and
- parking would be underground.
Issues: - urban design issues, including site plan, open space, auto court, and four-storey
development;
- crime prevention issues; and
- several technical issues, pertaining to fire prevention requirements and design of parking
entries, ramps and lay-out.
2. Address: 5338-5490 Larch Street Present Zone: RS-1
Applicant: B. Tully, Proposed Zone: CD-1
Brook Development Planning Heritage List.: 'B'*
Staff: T. Phipps (* 5338 Larch Street)
Date of Application: November 27, 1996
Proposal: The purpose of the requested rezoning is to develop 33 three-storey 3-bedroom townhouse units
and 13 one- and two-bedroom stacked units in 3-storey structures at a maximum density of 1.20
Floor Space Ratio, with underground parking of 2 spaces per unit. The Heritage 'B'-listed house
at 5338 Larch Street would be moved forward and retained.
Issues: - adequacy of treatment of heritage building;
- traffic impact;
- adequacy of parking; and
- suitability of "Kitsilano" character in Kerrisdale.
3. ADDRESS: 990 West 41st Avenue (Lubavitch Centre)
APPLICANT: Rabbi Wineberg for the Central Organization for
Jewish Education in B.C.
PRESENT ZONE: RS-1 PROPOSED ZONE: CD-1
STAFF: P. Mondor, F. Ducote, J. Jessup
DATE OF APPLICATION: December 6, 1996
PROPOSAL: Demolish the existing two-storey Lubavitch Centre and redevelop the site with mixed-use
development, including a new Centre and 82 dwellings units. A 6-storey building on the north
part of the site would contain 48 dwellings plus a new 9,500 sq. ft. Lubavitch Centre; a
4-storey building on the south part of the site would contain 34 dwellings. Eleven (11) of the
82 dwellings would be rental units. The proposed FSR is 2.16 (3.28 on north part of the site,
and 1.3 on the south part).
ISSUES: Proposed FSR exceeds the maximum established in the Langara-Oakridge Policy Statement (1.0 to
1.2 for stacked townhouses and ground-oriented low-rise apartments on this site, plus 20% for
public benefit, plus exemption for continued institutional use = total FSR of 1.68).
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