It just boggles my mind...
“If we have no rental stock in the city, where are we supposed to go?” said a woman who, worried about her tenancy...
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“It’s very scary,” said Victoria Coun. Pam Madoff. “It’s very miserable in our position because there’s really so little that we can do. There’s nowhere [for the tenants] to go.”
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“We’re obviously worried for the tenants,” Carole James said.
“If you’re looking at three large towers … and people are going to be told they can’t live in their apartments and they can’t afford to move back, that’s a huge number of tenants trying to find rental units that just aren’t available in Victoria.”
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Appledorf laid the blame at the feet of city hall, saying that there’s no way building permits should be issued if it’s going to result in tenants being displaced.
Coun. Chris Coleman said it would be near impossible not to issue a permit to a landlord wanting to do repairs and maintenance.
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Tip for everyone. If you think something is desperately needed and/or important then don't oppose it when somebody proposes to build it for you! And start giving **** to the politicians who you mistakenly believed were your champions!
Once-shunned tower projects back on table for rezoning
Times Colonist
January 13, 2005
A controversial proposal to build 16-storey and 12-storey apartment towers in James Bay has been revived despite overwhelming opposition from neighbouring residents.
Quadra Pacific Properties and Associated Building Credits have applied for rezoning applications to be considered by Victoria council this morning.
Associated wants to build 105 rental apartments in a 16-storey block and 16 townhouses at 350-360 Douglas St. Quadra Pacific is proposing a 113-unit tower at 415-435 Michigan St.
Both projects were rejected by all but three of 120 people attending a community meeting last May.
Ross Sinclair, who lives nearby at 624 Avalon St., is outraged that the proposals have resurfaced, especially because rezoning notices appeared during the Christmas holidays when they might have been overlooked.
"The community has already nixed this once," Sinclair said, adding that the projects do not conform to the James Bay neighbourhood plan.
Planning staff has recommended both proposals be rejected. However, consultant Mark Johnston, a former Esquimalt and Victoria city hall administrator, has argued rental apartments are badly needed. Rental units have not been built in James Bay area since the 1970s.
City council rejects second application for James Bay towers
Times Colonist
January 14, 2005
Victoria council showed little appetite Thursday for new residential towers in James Bay when it rejected two proposals for apartment buildings.
Reg Stewart and his family wanted to build the first private-sector rental accommodation in the neighbourhood since the 1970s. However, council rejected rezoning applications by companies linked to the family for 16-storey and 12-storey towers opposed by most neighbouring residents.
The proposals at 350-360 Douglas St. and 415-435 Michigan St. did not comply with planning policies for James Bay, already the densest neighbourhood in the city.
Mark Johnston, a consultant and former city administrator representing the Stewarts, said the projects would provide badly needed rental accommodation for the city.
The proposed towers would have gone up next to the existing buildings developed by the Stewarts several decades ago -- the Goodacre Towers, Regent Towers and Charter House buildings. Their proposal also offered $400,000 for the James Bay New Horizons seniors centre for a food-services facility.
The city planning department said this fell way short of the $3-million cash benefit required under the city's "density bonus" policy. This policy sets a value for density approved beyond what zoning rules normally allow.
Mayor Alan Lowe said while the city needs more rental accommodation, the proposals were "too big and too dense." Towers built in the 1970s could no longer serve as the model for James Bay, he indicated.
Coun. Pamela Madoff said that neighbourhood was effectively "downzoned" in the 1970s after residents complained about too many tall buildings in the precinct that spreads south of the legislature buildings.
Edited by aastra, 07 January 2016 - 11:25 AM.
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