Controversial development proposal for 105 Keefer St. in Vancouver\u0027s Chinatown came back for review by city\u0027s development permit board.
Soon after council’s 2017 rejection, Beedie proceeded to bring an application for a nine-storey building, which fell within the area’s existing zoning rules at the time, to the city’s development permit board later that year. That proposal, the same as the one before the city again this week, included 111 condos, with no social housing component, above commercial retail and a seniors centre on the ground floor.
“However, I agree with Beedie that the Board’s decision is substantively unreasonable because the reasons provided by the Board are inadequate,” the judge wrote, setting aside the board’s November 2017 decision and ordering reconsideration. After the meeting’s first two hours in the smaller ground-floor room, the board reconvened upstairs in the third-floor council chambers for the rest of the evening.
Architectural rendering of the Beedie Group’s proposed new development at 105 Keefer at Columbia in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 2016. Beedie’s newest application is similar to the one for a nine-storey condo building that was rejected in 2017 by the board, which said it did not fit the context of the neighbourhood.
By contrast, about 35 speakers who addressed the permit board over several hours on Monday were opposed. One Chinatown business owner spoke in support.
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