It’s a significant increase in density, but also a far cry from some of the rumours and fears circulating in the neighbourhood recently.
“We didn’t really know what was going on behind the scenes,” she said, “so you go to this kind of worst-case scenario.” It has been a long and sometimes contentious process to get to this point. But “this is a significant moment in the process,” said Nathan Edelson, a former senior planner with the city who has been doing consulting work for the neighbourhood association since 2010 to help them work with the city.
As a landowner, the city’s real estate department will try to advance a proposal to redevelop the area, not unlike how a private landowner would seek to develop a large property. The real estate department will make their pitch to the city’s planning department, which will act as the regulator here. The report on next week’s agenda seeks council’s direction for both distinct departments to move forward with their respective work.
The city’s concept would “respect the scale of the area,” Brook said, keeping taller buildings toward the edges, near the Cambie and Granville bridges, with shorter buildings closer to Charleson Park in the middle. The concept also contemplates in-fill development in currently empty or underutilized areas like the parking lot around the Olympic Village Canada Line Station, slightly increasing the size of Charleson Park, and relocating and redeveloping False Creek Elementary School.
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