Cities generally tend to grow vertically, to enable densification, yet Vancouver's planners are allowing aesthetics to eclipse affordability
On behalf of: Jameson Broadway & Birch LP/Courtesy of Jameson Broadway & Birch LPBut the conversation this month about how the city should change was awfully acrimonious. In a hearing that stretched over several days, Vancouver’s city councillors debated whether a new rental apartment building at Broadway and Birch would be acceptable at 28 storeys tall.
“It’s a highly discretionary paradigm, that wants to work creatively with market interests and incent good urban design principles,” said Scot Hein, an architect who spent many years working for the city’s urban design studio, this week. This, in a city and a region that are desperately unaffordable, makes a lot of sense. Yet some neighbours hated it,and create “incongruent development.” The Fairview/South Granville Action Committee commissioned renderings showing the new building towering over the area.
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