POLICY REPORT
                           DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING

                                           Date: June 3, 1997
                                           Dept. File No. RWW
                                           CC File: 5301-1

   TO:       Vancouver City Council

   FROM:     Director of Community Planning

   SUBJECT:  Extension of Brewery Creek Guidelines


   RECOMMENDATION

        THAT revised guidelines for Brewery Creek be adopted as attached in
        Appendix A of this report.

   GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS

        The General Manager of Community Services RECOMMENDS approval of
        the foregoing.

   COUNCIL POLICY

   Community Development Plan for Mount Pleasant, approved by City Council
   on October 6, 1987.

   Mount Pleasant Heritage Area Revitalization Program (H.A.R.P.), approved
   by City Council, April 28, 1988.

   Brewery Creek IC-3 Guidelines, adopted by City Council September 10,
   1996.

   PURPOSE AND SUMMARY

   This report seeks to formally extend guidelines applying to conditional
   uses in IC-3 (Brewery Creek Industrial Enclave) to other zoning
   districts through which the historic Brewery Creek water course flowed,
   between East 7th and East 16th Avenues in Mount Pleasant.

   This action will formalize considerations which are being raised with
   applicants for uses involving conditional approval and relaxations and
   rezoning proposals in respective C-3A, C-2C and RM-4/4N Districts on and
   adjacent to Main Street.  Staff recommend extending the existing
   guidelines to the areas shown in Appendix A.

   BACKGROUND

   The Community Development Plan for Mount Pleasant recommended that the
   Director of Planning, in conjunction with the Mount Pleasant
   Neighbourhood Association, pursue preparation of a concept plan for
   revival of the Brewery Creek water course, both symbolically and through
   incentives, such as bonus density, on public and private properties. 
   The Heritage Area Revitalization Program (H.A.R.P.) involved the work of
   a consultant who provided preliminary work on a Brewery Creek
   interpretative program, which included the placement of commemorative
   cairns along the creek course.  The Brewery Creek IC-3 guidelines were
   adopted in 1996 in response to a number of development initiatives in
   that zone, particularly artist live-work studios between Main and Scotia
   Streets.

   As a result of H.A.R.P. jointly funded by the City, the Province and
   affected property owners, and the Metrovista project at Kingsway and
   Broadway, several commemorative cairns have been erected along the route
   of Brewery Creek (first of these unveiled in June 1993).  The Brewery
   Creek Historical Society is presently involved in the design of public
   open space on a site at 325 East 5th Avenue, an artist live-work
   project.  The open space design will focus on Brewery Creek and plant
   species natural to the area.

   A number of other development initiatives south of Broadway are under
   consideration along the historic route of Brewery Creek.  Significant
   sites  include St. Pat's church and school site between 12th and 13th
   Avenues adjacent to Main Street and the former Jansen (sports wear)
   sites, which include properties on East 11th and East 10th Avenues.

   It is now within the realm of possibility that a significant amenity
   could be achieved, in the form of a neighbourhood greenway or similar
   interpretative project, which would benefit the City's heritage
   objectives in this community as supported through the Community
   Development Plan and H.A.R.P.

   Staff have discussed Brewery Creek considerations with all enquirers and
   simply wish to formalize, through Council adopted guidelines, the
   importance of these considerations as they relate to development
   applications involving conditional approval and requests for relaxations
   and rezoning applications.  The Brewery Creek Historical Society and the
   President of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Association have endorsed
   extension of the guidelines.

   CONCLUSION

   Staff recommend extension of the Brewery Creek IC-3 Guidelines to
   include C-3A, C-2C and RM-4/4N Districts in the vicinity of Main Street,
   within Mount Pleasant to address the Community Development Plan.
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