The Missing Middle Housing Plan
- Lack of neighbourhood planning and meaningful stakeholder involvement limited to developers interested in building new multiplexes.
- These rezoning changes are just the beginning, with staff indicating the next steps will be to apply similar changes and consolidation of all RT zones citywide.
- no required on-site parking that puts more pressure on street parking and undermines the shift to electric vehicles with no place to park for charging
- loss of trees and green space, both onsite and for street trees due to reduced front yards that impacts street tree roots
- lack of infrastructure to serve growth including sewers, water supply, electrical grid, schools, daycare, community centres, recreation facilities, medical services, social services, etc.
- impacts of new requirements for onsite underground water holding tanks and electrical transformers (PMT) required for an onsite 12 ft x 12 ft easement on each lot to mitigate lack of infrastructure
- loss of affordable secondary suites through demolition, and with no requirement to have a suite with a new single family house
- no design guidelines for development quality and contextual design
- development pressures on land affordability and lack of affordability of new units not much if any less than the original units demolished.
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This proposed plan will undermine character house and heritage building retention incentives and should be revised to be equal to or greater than new construction to be an incentive.
- Properties listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register should be exempt from multiplexes, and instead have viable incentives for increasing density and multifamily through retention options.
- For character house retention, with a renovated addition or suite, density is reduced from the current 0.75 to proposed 0.65
- Character houses with infill only are at 0.85 while multiplexes are proposed at 1.0 FSR.
Vancouver Sun article by Carol Volkart:
Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods (CVN) Letter
https://coalitionvan.org/posts/20230303-rs-rezoning-multiplex-consult/
Globe and Mail article by Kerry Gold:
Public Hearing Agenda & Report:
Public Hearing Agenda:
https://council.vancouver.ca/20230914/phea20230914ag.htm
CoV Report:
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