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[Citified.ca]

Citified profile: https://victoria.cit.../colwood-lodge/

 

An artist's rendering of a 15-storey development concept for Colwood Lodge, a property which is currently occupied by an outdated 50-unit woodframed affordable rental at 85 Belmont Road.

 

Colwood Lodge redevelopment could yield 15-storey affordable rental tower at Colwood Corners

https://victoria.cit...olwood-corners/

 

The proposal shifted gears from an earlier six-storey, 139-unit design: https://victoria.cit...oom-apartments/

[Nparker]

 

In lieu of providing underground parking as was the earlier intention, the updated design will feature a surface parking lot...

Boo.

[threePs]

 

 

 the updated design will feature a surface parking lot...

 

Boo.

 

underground parking = $$

affordable housing tenants ≠ $$

less capital investment = cheaper rents = affordability!

[Nparker]

Surface parking = 1965.

[Mike K.]

One note, is the building will actually be shorter than Aryze Development’s Speed Avenue project. The Lodge will top out at 40 meters and 15-storeys. The Speed Avenue project will top out at 45 meters and 14-storeys.

[aastra]

So should we expect a push for surface parking as an enlightened solution to affordability issues? Surface parking caused affordability issues before (being the waste of valuable space that it is), but now it will save us?

 

Why not have partially covered surface parking? A strip of townhouses with the parking obscured behind, and a few more levels of apartments above.

[aastra]

 

Surface parking = 1965.

 

They were complaining about it in 1973:

 

 

Daily Colonist
February 14, 1973

Committee Recommends: Underground Parking

Builders of four-storey frame apartment buildings will have to provide... at least 50 per cent underground parking, if city council approves a recommendation by Victoria's zoning committee.

The proposal... specifies that at least 50 per cent of the parking spaces must be underground. At present, all parking may be above ground.

...the amendment was designed to put an end to black-topping half the city.

"...even those which are considered of a good design and quality, have acres of surface parking. We had to do something about that,"

[Victoria Watcher]

So should we expect a push for surface parking as an enlightened solution to affordability issues? Surface parking caused affordability issues before (being the waste of valuable space that it is), but now it will save us?

Why not have partially covered surface parking? A strip of townhouses with the parking obscured behind, and a few more levels of apartments above.

yes this is a great compromise.

[threePs]

One note, is the building will actually be shorter than Aryze Development’s Speed Avenue project. The Lodge will top out at 40 meters and 15-storeys. The Speed Avenue project will top out at 45 meters and 14-storeys.

 

This is incorrect. 85 Belmont is planned at 51.68m.

 

 

 

Why not have partially covered surface parking? A strip of townhouses with the parking obscured behind, and a few more levels of apartments above.

 

According to the press release, the move to a tower vs the originally planned 6-storey w/ underground is to save the land for future development - they could technically build a 2nd tower of the same size beside this one in the future without needing a rezoning (once car dependency is even less and parking requirements are almost zero).

Edited by threePs, 31 August 2019 - 06:12 PM.

[Mike K.]

My mistake, thank you for clarifying.

I thought the maximum height for mass timber in BC was 45.5m.

[Victoria Watcher]

why call it colwood lodge though (apart from the useful location information contained within)?  i thought settler names were out these days?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 September 2019 - 09:33 AM.

[threePs]

This was approved at public hearing last night.

[Mike K.]

Are you able to speak to timelines, threePs?

[ColbyCo]

Looks like they will be applying for the development permit next

 

https://greatervicho...-redevelopment/

 

We are scheduled to go to a public hearing for our rezoning application on Monday, July 6^th, 2020. If successful, we will look to submit for a development permit in August 2020