City of Vancouver Reviewing Downtown Building Heights
by Maggie Chandler on January 25, 2010
in Downtown
Currently on the table at City Hall are two staff reports pertaining to 1) the future of the city’s 27 view corridors and whether they should be retained. The second pertains to the Historic Area Height Review (Gastown, Victory square, Chinatown and Main/Hastings).
Brent Toderian, Chief City Planner, reports that in recent years many buildings have been permitted to intrude into the view corridor space, breaking the promise of Eco-Density and allowing developers to have exceptions.
In a recent survey 53% of the public told the city they’d accept a higher building policy and City Staff has proposed 4 possible buildings for redevelopment -a 40 storey building on Burrard and Drake, a 70 storey building at the Bay parkade near Georgia, Seymour and Richards. A 50 storey building on Georgia and Cambie (the old bus depot site) and a 40 storey building at the end of Georgia in northeast False Creek. These buildings would have to “exhibit exceptional architectural excellence and superior environmental performance whilst still maintaining important views to the mountains”.
Planning philosophy for the Historic Area is being guided by “revitalization without displacement”. City staff recommended allowing an increase of one storey along Pender Street in Chinatown and extending allowable building heights from 70 to 90 ft south of Pender to Union , between Columbia & Gore. In adjacent areas, 3 sites would be permitted to rise up to 150ft. This area is a complex for city council due to many competing interests and the fact that there isn’t a new plan for the area as yet.
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