2- Sunday, January 24, 1993 - North Shore News

NV City OKs Lower Lonsdale townh

‘NORTH VANCOUVER»
CITY COUNCIL

.By Stephen Wisenthal
Contributing Writer

NORTH VANCOUVER City
councillors voted in favor Monday
night of a 14-uuit townhouse
_ planned for 4th Street. between
Chesterfield and Mahon avenues.

the building’s design for making a
higher density development attrac-
tive,

The complex, which will fill the |

equivalent of two existing single-
family lots, has a density of 43
units per acre, which is much

higher than the old standard of 30 ¢

units per acre: But it meets the ci-
ty’s new standard of a maximum
floor space ratio of 1.0 times the
lot size.

Coun. Bill Bell said he had ob-
jected to. density increases in the

past, but the design of the pro-
posed development on 4th ‘‘makes
density a Jot more palatable.”*

Coun. Barbara Perrault said the
development would be exciting
and affordable.

The complex will
two-bedroom townhouses fronting
on the north side of 4th Street,
with eight 600-square-foot (56 sq.
m) one-bedroom apartments built
above the townhouses.

Devewoper Roger Ayliffe said
the townhouses would sell in the

have six’

“low 200s’? and the apartments
would probably sell from between
$110,000 and $120,000.

Coun.
would support the motion; “but
added: ‘i don’t know if $110,000
is affordable.””

Councillors voted unanimously
in favor of the development on
second and third readings of the
zoning bylaw. | :
* The bylaw amendments. will
come up for final adoption at a
future council meeting.

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