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[Mike K.]

This building will offer incredible views towards the strait.

[RFS]

Construction has begun on new "stacked" office tower in Vancouver, expected to become the city's tallest office building at 530 feet

https://www.on-sitem...est/1003964179/

[RFS]

Construction has begun on new "stacked" office tower in Vancouver, expected to become the city's tallest office building at 530 feet

https://www.on-sitem...est/1003964179/

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[DustMagnet]

This and the new B&W... Is this a trend designed to thumb noses at people with OCD*?

 

Gotta. Straighten. Building.   

* Real or imagined.

[Jackerbie]

^ Stay away from Vancouver, then. "Stacked boxes" are very trendy right now.

 

Bosa's 1070 Barclay

 

Bosa's 1500 West Georgia

 

Westbank's 400 West Georgia

 

Oxford Properties' 401 West Georgia

 

Vancouver Art Gallery (unlikely to be funded and built at this point)

[DustMagnet]

No skin off my nose... I think the designs are visually interesting.  I like 400 W. Georgia especially with those vertical gardens - it's great head start on Life After People.

[Jackerbie]

^ 400 W Georgia is rumoured to be the location of a new Apple corporate office

[Mike K.]

It boggles the mind how Apple plans to situate a major office in Vancouver yet the Capital Region has zero Apple Stores. Um?

[AllseeingEye]

No skin off my nose... I think the designs are visually interesting.  I like 400 W. Georgia especially with those vertical gardens - it's great head start on Life After People.

Why can't I get the thought of a "Transformer" out of my head looking at this one?

[LJ]

This and the new B&W... Is this a trend designed to thumb noses at people with OCD*?

 

Gotta. Straighten. Building.   

* Real or imagined.

It would drive Rubik's cube aficionados nuts. 

[Jackerbie]

Unsure if someone else has mentioned this one, but GVHS has applied to rezone and redevelop the Esquimalt Lions Lodge (874 Fleming Street). 77 existing units would be replaced by 137 units in a six-storey building.

 

Project site: https://greatervicho...-redevelopment/

 

[Mike K.]

GVHS is very, very busy these days. Lots on the go.

[Jackerbie]

No application or rendering yet, but apparently there's a five lot consolidation on Quadra where a 4-storey apartment and commerical building plus 8 townhouses is proposed. 4089 Quadra which is the Taber music school. Not 100% sure on the other four properties involved.

[Casual Kev]

I guess there's something going on at 950 Worrall and 804 Latoria because the NIMBYs have their pitchforks out for this one:

 

[Mike K.]

So, is it “high density” or “small lot?”

[sebberry]

Their 'solution' doesn't seem all that unreasonable:
 

The Solution

• We want the City, the developer and the landowners to work together to preserve part of this parcel as a forested park for the community. Instead of requesting other amenities, we want the City to ask the developer to leave large, contiguous portion of forested greenspace as a park.
• We want the City to require the developer to hold a ‘neighbourhood consultation process’ to help ensure the needs of our community are met

But I can't help but think that these concerned residents live in the fairly new developments around the area, effectively protesting the factors that they've benefited from allowing them to have their houses built.

[tiger11]

There was a previous application in 2017 to Rezone to RS4 - 342 Lot Subdivision and 70 Townhomes that didn't materialize. Last i heard just over a year ago the developer intended to do similar.  

 

I guess there's something going on at 950 Worrall and 804 Latoria because the NIMBYs have their pitchforks out for this one:

 

[AllseeingEye]

I think that is pretty ironic coming from people who live in one of the most "drastically changed" areas of the entire CRD. I guess change isn't perceived to be 'drastic' as long as those people believe they derive some benefit to living there - regardless of the "changes" made to accommodate them in the first place may have negatively impacted other residents. Yep "I'm alright Jack - (but you're SOL....)"

Edited by AllseeingEye, 04 July 2019 - 05:52 PM.

[Rob Randall]

Is a forested hilltop urban park an outrageous idea? Especially when open space is an endangered species in Langford? 

[DustMagnet]

Firstly, all of us are living where there once were trees so no one can say anything against cutting down trees for housing.

Secondly, the developers are sure to plant new trees amongst the development, so it's Even Stevens anyway.  You'll probably not even be able to tell the difference between a forest and a subdivision.

Of this I was informed in the Vanishing Trees thread, so everyone can put down the pitchforks and pick up the chainsaws*.

 

* Kidding of course - you'd use a feller buncher on that.