It looks like a student design competition to me. There's also no way 40,000 people could live in what's depicted. Drop a zero and I'd believe 4,000.
Agree - no way that's near 40,000.
It is a neat concept in theory - would completely matter on a giant corp taking the bait, IE amazon provides 2000 jobs, like the Post Downtown. That would get the City kick started.
The developers behind two proposed 12-storey towers in White Rock, B.C., say those projects are being unfairly blocked by the city’s new council.
After a lengthy permitting process, the two projects on Johnston Road — the Solterra and Lady Alexandra — were approved by the former council in 2017 and 2018.
Developers say the City of White Rock is now acting in bad faith by reviewing the official community plan for the area, which would decrease the height limit of future buildings from 12 storeys to between four and six storeys.
“Changing the rules during a rezoning process is one thing — and it has its own implications — but changing the rules after the zoning is in place, the development permit is in place, that’s lightyears more significant and a much bigger deal,” city planning consultant Brent Toderian said.
“If this happens, I think it will have a ripple effect well beyond White Rock.”
The developer of the Lady Alexandra, GSR Capital Group, could have avoided all of this if it had gotten a building permit, but the company says it delayed the process to redesign the building in order to reflect public input. By doing so, the company says the city is now using that loophole to act in bad faith.
However, White Rock Mayor Darryl Walker says the city is “within the structure of the law and within a structure of provincial legislation that allows us to make decisions like this. We’re not breaking any covenants. If they had building permits in place already, we would not necessarily have made these changes.”
Walker argues that council was given a clear mandate after the recent election to increase community input about how the city is developed.
“Space and height doesn’t necessarily create density,” he added.
“For the most part, people told us that they didn’t believe that they had been heard in past public meetings,” Walker said.
He went on to say residents will have their say at a public hearing scheduled for Monday.
This artist’s rendering of phase 1 of the Coquitlam Centre Mall redevelopment shows the potential future Entertainment District. Source: Morguard Investments Ltd.
This artist’s rendering shows the Barnet Park Arts and Innovation District at the forefront. Source: Morguard Investments Ltd.
Meanwhile in Vancouver we are still busy chopping down the heights of proposed buildings, not anywhere else, but right at the downtown core. Ridiculous to the max.
I think it is safe to say the future does not live in Vancouver. The future is every municipality in metro other than Vancouver. I wonder though if we could change the name of the region if Vancouver is no longer taking the lead. Maybe we change it to Metro Burnaby and or Metro Surrey... Lol!
NE corner of Clarke and Como Lake - where the KFC was/is. Still has to be approved by the city.
4 towers, 26 - 40 storeys Phase One is the Tower 1 40 storey and Tower 2 33 storey.
Thanks for the update, looks like my estimate upthread (based on the number of units) of 73 stories between the first two buildings was exactly correct
I do worry with the ongoing housing downturn that some of these late cycle projects will end up as half finished shells for a decade or two, hopefully not...
Prev
IMG_5662
IMG_5666
IMG_5678
IMG_5680
I wonder though if we could change the name of the region if Vancouver is no longer taking the lead. Maybe we change it to Metro Burnaby and or Metro Surrey... Lol!
Linear Mode
