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Safeway Redevelopment
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Marpole Safeway Redevelopment
Rezoning Application - 8495 Granville Street
Henriquez Partners Architects has applied, on the behalf of Westbank Projects, to rezone the site from C-2 (Commercial) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The purpose of the rezoning is to redevelop the site with four major building elements which includes replacement of the Safeway grocery store on Granville Street, a 24-storey rental tower, a 14 storey market condominium tower, and a 9-storey slab building consisting of townhouses at street level and condominium units above. The proposed maximum height would be 72 m (236 ft.). The total floor area proposed would be 37,647.8 square metres (405,250 sq. ft.) with a maximum density increased from 2.5 FSR (floor space ratio) to 3.14 FSR.
The proposed increase in density is to secure the provision of the rental housing. The rezoning application is being considered under the Short Term Incentives for Rental (STIR) Program approved by City Council on June 18, 2009. This program responds to low vacancy rates and the lack of new purpose-built rental housing by providing a strategic set of City incentives to encourage and facilitate the development of new market rental housing.
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Application
- Context Plan (PDF 236kb)
- Site Plan (PDF 901kb)
- Building Program (PDF 683kb)
- Building Elevation Drawings (PDF 2.79mb)
- Building Form Drawings (PDF 5.34mb)
- Shadow Analysis (PDF 236kb)
- Heritage Designation and Facade (PDF 708kb)
- Landscape Plan (PDF 2.02mb)
Notification
- Notice of Rezoning Application Postcard (PDF 135kb)