Vancouver council is set to hear a report next week on allowing multiplexes in the First Shaughnessy neighbourhood, a heritage conservation area protected from increased density.
The report follows provincial Bill 44, approved in November, requiring cities to permit greater density even in such protected zones, with up to four units on a standard lot and up to six on lots near transit.The city’s proposed changes would mirror those provincial requirements, with the exception of specific protected heritage properties.
Waldkirch said wider Shaughnessy neighbourhood is nearly as large geographically as the entire downtown peninsula, while the ultra-exclusive First Shaughnessy sub-area is almost as big as the West End.Their large lots can not be subdivided, resulting in some of the lowest density anywhere in the city, he said.If Vancouver is serious about tackling the housing crisis and meeting its climate adaptation goals, it must allow the construction of some form of apartment buildings in the area, he said.
Vancouver city councillor Peter Meiszner said the proposal headed to council is, at this point, still just a recommendation and that councillors may still make changes to it.But he said that while all parts of the city need to make room for “new neighbours,” different parts of the city will densify in different ways.
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