THE THIRD public hearing on floor area ratios for single family dwellings in West

Vancouver was held at Monday night's council mecting in an attempt to limit the amount of building

roposed ratio is .45 (dwelling size divided by lot size) suggested by the building department because “the trend toward large homes runs counter to the trend in houschold size.” Citizen input included concerns that in maximizing the legal ratio developers would usc little vanety in house plans, emulating what one citizen called “the East Vancouver special”: rows of identical box-like houses. Another person said that these “artificial restrictions” were “encroaching on the rights of the = individual property owner and called ‘them “bandaid solutions to a

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Tom Young, a spokesman for the Caulfield ratepayers association commended the council for secking carefully controlled development: I t's a start in controlling ap parent bulk” he said but added that his group was “more in support of .35”

According to the building department, the average FAR of the 50 most recent single family housc plans 1s

37.

However, the new suggestion of .45, although a larger figure than was earlicr suggested, includes basement and cellars.

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