A Vancouver developer is proposing a 346-unit rental apartment building at 1563 Shaughnessy Street. The Committee of Council will consider the proposal at a meeting tomorrow.
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City State Consulting Group seeks to rezone the 2.8-acre property for a six-storey complex. Their proposal includes 35 studio units, 227 one-bedroom units, 67 two-bedroom units and 17 three-bedroom homes. Of those, 35 would be secured as non-market rentals, with the rest being market rentals.
According to a staff report, the site sits on a steep slope near Colony Farm Regional Park, with the land owned by the Kwikwetlem First Nation. It currently has a detached house surrounded by mature trees. A watercourse runs along the southern and western edges of the property, and a strip of land on the western edge is designated for park and recreation use.
An unopened road on the north side of the property would provide vehicle access. The applicant is proposing 358 vehicle parking stalls and 482 secure bike storage spaces. The application proposes reducing the number of vehicle parking spaces by 149.
To move forward, the developer must secure an amendment to the OCP and rezone the land from its current Agricultural designation to the RA2 apartment zone. City staff are recommending that Council support early and ongoing consultation under the Local Government Act. The consultation would include public information meetings, on-site signage, a project website, and direct outreach to nearby residents. The applicant would also be required to consult with Metro Vancouver and the Kwikwetlem First Nation, and the staff plan to engage with School District 43.
Shaunessy Street is already a problem. Line ups to get on and off the Maryhill Bypass are crazy long now. This is not the place for a complex of this size. I am totally against this proposal. This is a residential neighborhood, not high density.
parking spaces are essential. familes, seniors etc need a vehicle for shopping, driving the kids to school etc. should be one space per unit. thank you
Ah yes. 227 one bedrooms and only 17 three bedroom… where are the builds for families??
This is a very very bad idea and should be voted down. Traffic is already gridlocked and can not handle additional growth. The rental units will bring more unneeded crime in the quiet residential neighborhood- this is not the location for this type of development!!!
This is an absolutely ridiculous proposal. I couldn’t imagine having such a giant structure in a residential area. Something like this is more suited for the downtown Poco area not in a residential neighborhood. It will devalue housing in the immediate area. We don’t have enough infrastructure on the streets, never mind the shortage of schools to house all the children that would be moving into this area. I sure hope our city puts an end to this.
For anyone living in Port Coquitlam, we already know Shaughnessy is a nightmare at the best of times. This will make that worse. Dropping development projects on every available shred of land isn’t PLANNING. It’s development for its own sake and ruins every city.
Port Coquitlam desperately needs a community-centred people-powered organisation to counter the endless developments imposed by the city and province to ensure a more thoughtful, well-balanced future for the area. If we don’t act fast, it’s going to be condos, traffic hell, and concrete as far as the eye can see.
We all know there is a shortage of affordable housing yet no one wants anything built ‘in their back yard’? While there’s some neighborhood on the one side, there’s nothing on the other 3 so less impact. There really aren’t any good places in the lower mainland for larger units…there’s traffic everywhere and if that was the deciding factor nothing would ever get built. Hopefully the City would require access routes be created to lessen traffic congestion. However, right off the bat I don’t agree with the reduction in parking spots to 146 for a 349 unit building. That’s just crazy.
This seems to fit the history of poco