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Old Posted Jan 17, 2012, 9:31 PM
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Doesn't appear to be much change beside that loss of artist space in exhange for a cash contribution to the city. The FSR is no 5.55 instead of 5.38.

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Revised Application (January 16, 2012)
Updated January 16, 2012

The Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) for this project has been revised from an on-site amenity of artist studio production space to a cash contribution. While the form of development has not changed from the previous submission (October 2011), the floor area from the artist studio production space is now counted in the floor area calculations as commercial retail space, resulting in an increase in the floor space ratio (FSR) from 5.38 to 5.55.

In addition, the 15 for-profit rental housing units have been removed and these units are now covered under market residential housing. This change has no impact to the FSR calculations.

The revised application includes the following:

•two-storey commercial podium
•241 dwelling units
•building heights of 5, 5, 9 and 19 storeys
•floor space ratio (FSR) of 5.55
•underground parking for 320 vehicles
•increased sidewalk widths on portions of the Kingsway and 10th Avenue frontages
•a cash contribution towards off-site cultural or civic facilities, or other approved public benefit, in lieu of the originally proposed on-site artist studio production space
Revised drawings reflecting these changes will be posted when available
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Old Posted Jan 18, 2012, 4:44 AM
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That open house was painful - the City representatives made it clear that they wanted questions, but many people took that as an opportunity to grandstand at length.

Thankfully there were a few good questions and some supporters of the building. Apparently the city has received more positive written comments than negative ones, and the (final, I believe) public hearing will be in late February or March.

I can't wait to see this neighbourhood in 15 years or so, it's going to be amazing with this tower, a possible Kingsgate Mall redevelopment, and the Skytrain extension.
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Old Posted Feb 8, 2012, 3:36 AM
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Looks like the public hearing will be on Monday Feb. 27th at 7:30PM.

I've registered to speak in support of the project (more info on exactly how to do that at the above link), and I hope other SSPers are able to do so as well. The NIMBYs will be out in force for this one.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 8:31 AM
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http://www.straight.com/article-6115...y-and-broadway

Lots of NIMBY talk here. Complains stemming from density and public process.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 8:55 AM
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^Wow. Any comment, no matter how reasonable, that supports this development has a great number of dislike votes.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 9:30 AM
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News comment are akin to youtube comments. They will rot your brain if you read too much of it.

Besides, the people that agree with it tends to be quiet, while the people most opposed to it will be out in force. It's quite a common phenomenon for pretty much every political decision.

There may be some reasonable criticisms of the project, but complaining about shadows (I guess downtown doesn't see the sun anymore)? The area is an important transportation crossroads (so we should put less density beside it)? The building's too dense (still in the metro core region)? Ugh.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 2:22 PM
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This will be this council's first big test. It'll be interesting to see how it goes next week. Think it's a given that it'll be approved, it does have staff's recommendation. I still feel that while it's a improvement over the original proposal that it wasn't quite there yet. The density is workable and even the height could be acceptable (would prefer a slight reduction) but the massing of the project is the worst offender, it's a mess imo.
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"Ned Jacobs, an urbanist and planning critic"

What's an urbanist? Don't tell me PFTF forced CIP to change my professional standards again.
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 5:36 PM
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"Ned Jacobs, an urbanist and planning critic"

What's an urbanist? Don't tell me PFTF forced CIP to change my professional standards again.
A bit off topic but, An urbanist is a general term for urban theorist, critic, planner etc. or other people concerned with urbanism.

Not all urbanist are planners and not all Professional planners are necessarily urbanists. There are many of us that work in health planning, resource planning, regional planning, that probably wouldn't be considered urbanists.

In French it is a different story as “Urbaniste” is a synonym for urban planner.

So no we won’t be OICU’s instead of MCIP’s
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 5:52 PM
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http://www.straight.com/article-6115...y-and-broadway

Lots of NIMBY talk here. Complains stemming from density and public process.
I have to agree with most of the article. The public process for this project has been haphazard at best, and dishonest at worst. I am not against density or height, but this is not done the right way at all. It doesn't really offer anything as far as amenities to the community, the arcade along Broadway is backwards in my opinion, and the bubble gum wall is straight up retarded. I am really disappointed in Rize, especially considering other interesting designs/buildings they have done (Rolston, the Waves in Surrey, 1st propsal of Containers).
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 6:11 PM
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I found one of the comments spot on, the Wall proposal on E Hastings has a higher FSR but is a much better fit with it's surrounding area thanks to more modest heights.
I also found it surprising that that height is over 100% taller then the new community centre at 1 Kingsway and 22% higher then the King Edward Village tower even though it's only one storey higher (19 vs 18).
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Old Posted Feb 22, 2012, 6:36 PM
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Ned Jacobs lives in the Little Mountain area. Is it appropriate for him to speak for the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood when he doesn't even live in it? I believe there are many like him who show up at these community meetings, which really aren't community meetings, but an anti development rally. And he talks about deceptive tactics by the developer while at the same time saying that this project has been decisively rejected by the community.

The building itself is massive, but what is the alternative if you keep the same density. A 30 story tower would certainly open up some space at ground level and let in more light, and it would not be out of place when you consider the mid rise buildings in the area, as well as towers that will be built at Kingsgate and the IGA site.

Obviously a 30 story tower isn't going to happen at this point, but IMO taller buildings should be given more consideration in the future because I don't think they're as detrimental as some make them out to be, just as more massive mid rise buildings are not as beneficial as some portray them as.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 3:36 AM
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It doesn't really offer anything as far as amenities to the community, the arcade along Broadway is backwards in my opinion, and the bubble gum wall is straight up retarded. I am really disappointed in Rize, especially considering other interesting designs/buildings they have done (Rolston, the Waves in Surrey, 1st propsal of Containers).
It offers a huge amount of retail space for the neighbourhood (including one space for a supermarket that will actually interface well with the street unlike the Buy-Low monstrosity that involves passing through parking lots or a mall to get to). Also ,the CAC is contributing $6.25 million to City coffers, something like $25k/unit. Whether that's spent in the community is up to the City now, and I don't think it's efficient or necessarily desirable to demand that amenity contributions are tied precisely to a development.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 6:12 AM
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that's a really big cac contribution, wow. anyway, i liked the original plan with the taller tower, definitely the sort of change i'd like to see come to that corner, esp with forthcoming redevelopment of that POS mall and the ubc line. the only thing that i'm thinking of is the parking access, i don't really like how it's set up now, definitely needs to be a less obtrusive lane entry.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 11:48 AM
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I found one of the comments spot on, the Wall proposal on E Hastings has a higher FSR but is a much better fit with it's surrounding area thanks to more modest heights.
I also found it surprising that that height is over 100% taller then the new community centre at 1 Kingsway and 22% higher then the King Edward Village tower even though it's only one storey higher (19 vs 18).
That proposal has one big advantage for hiding the height. It's next to a bridge, and about a ~8m high hill. Basically it's got probably 2 of the FSR below grade when you look at it from the Hastings side.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 7:05 PM
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Wow! looks like the developers renderings were pretty off, the city's response doesn't seem to be helping either. Take a read of the following document and compare the massings produced by the applicate, a private citizen and then the city. Seems like some of the concerns being raised do have validity.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/...6memoFeb20.pdf
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 7:27 PM
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^ i hope that it comes out looking like the citizen's massings, that would be great for the area.
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One thing I find odd is that the context rendering does not show the MetroVista condo which is kitty corner to the site. That condo and 1 Kingsway are at least 10 storeys and provide context for the rendering. The view selected for the render should have been from the east (to show all tall buildings in the area including the Lee Building) and minimize the "downhill perspective distortion).
I think what you'd end up seeing is a podium consistent with other heights in the area, and a feature tower breaking the tabletop.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 8:03 PM
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And just who is going to be viewing it from that height? They should really be using views from various locations along streets where people, not birds will be viewing it from.
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2012, 8:23 PM
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If you're just looking at views along streets, then it wouldn't matter if there are towers at all
- the street wall would block them out (you'd have to have "towers in the park" to provide long range views)
Ever been lost in London UK because the streets are narrow and you can't see landmarks?
Take a walk along Hornby between Pacific and Drake - that's mid-rise streetwall heaven.

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