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Hearing

set for

10-storey Lower
Lonsdale highrise

A PROPOSAL for a 10-storey residential tower in Lower
Lonsdale will again face public scrutiny when it comes be-
fore North Vancouver City Council at a public hearing on

Monday night.

The proposed highrise would be
located on the southwest corner of
Sth Street and Lonsdale Avenue
— a site currently occupied by a
boarded-up corner store and two
second-storey suites built in 1947.

The application to amend a
zoning bylaw that would allow the

development at 457 Lonsdale Ave.

was first presented at a public
hearing on Aug. 10 after receiving
first reading by council.

At that time the developer, J.D.
Enterprises, along with Toews Ar-
chitects, presented its plan for an
18-unit tower with large circular
balconies. The building was to be
raised off the ground on a one-
storey triangular base ‘‘to allow
neighbors to the north a better view
corrider,’’ according to the devel-
oper’s submission to council,

In a report to council received
last Monday night, staff describe
the design as ‘‘an imaginative
solution to a small, locked-in
highrise-zoned site.”’

But, according to the report,
the proposal was met with criti-
cism from nearby residerits and
the Lonsdale Citizens’ Association
at the Aug. 10 public hearing
because it would require certain
relaxations to the bylaw in terms

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of siting, floor area density and
height.

And after council at its Sept. 14
meeting referred the proposal to a
second public hearing, the devel-
oper came up with another pro-
posal for the site.

‘Option A,”? which allows for a
rectangular-shaped building,
would comply with the existing
zoning bylaw but would block
50% more view than the triangu-
lar-shaped building proposed
under Option B, according to the
developer’s submission.

According to staff and as
outiined in their report to council,
the best design solution for the
site would be a compromise be-
tween the two options.

Both proposals will be presented
at the Nov. 23 public hearing at
which time council’s options will
be to:

@ defeat the proposed amending
bylaw on the basis of the required
zoning bylaw relaxations and local
opposition;

@ carry the bylaw. which would
then allow Option B to proceed:

@ or, as staff have recommended,
defer second and third reading
until the applicant has reduced the
project’s height and density based
on the existing RH-1 zoning of
the property.

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