Employment Intensification in Vancouver's False Creek

Not all stations are created equal EMPLOYMENT INTENSIFICATION IN VANCOUVER’S FALSE CREEK FLATS

Cory Dobson | Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability | City of Vancouver VANCOUVER IN ITS REGIONAL CONTEXT

• 631 k of Region’s 2.46 m residents • 5% of the Land • 26% of the population • 35% of the Jobs FIXED LAND CONSTRAINTS

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INDUSTRIAL OFFICE/ INDUSTRIAL DOWNTOWN OFFICE RESIDENTIAL VANCOUVER EMPLOYMENT LANDS

BURRARD WATERFRONT

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  10% of land area 50% of jobs BURRARD SLOPES UBC & UEL  GRANDVIEW UPTOWN  /BOUNDARY    MOUNT  VGH PLEASANT 

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MIXED-EMPLOYMENT SOUTH VANCOUVER

 OFFICE FALSE CREEK • 450+ acres FLATS PLAN • Less than 1 km to Downtown & the Port • Home to 600 Businesses & 8,000 Jobs • 95 Acres of Rail Yard • 40% of City’s Artist Studios The False Creek Flats Plan sought to establish a new framework to unlock the area’s economic potential focused on delivering a more productive, sustainable, and integrated economic district within our city’s core. The False Creek Flats Plan sought to establish a new framework to unlock the area’s economic potential focused on delivering a more productive, sustainable, and integrated economic district within our city’s core.

IN THIS CONTEXT, HOW DO WE BEST LEVERAGE HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSIT? REGIONAL GROWTH DESIGNATIONS

Industrial

Mixed Employment

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GENERAL URBAN 26% 20% MIXED EMPLOYMENT

53%

INDUSTRIAL TWO-MAIN FOCUSES OF THE FLATS

CORE INDUSTRY: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION & REPAIR

INTENSIVE EMPLOYMENT FLATS THE DRAFT PLAN FLATS THE DRAFT PLAN FLATS THE DRAFT PLAN

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PROGRAMS ENSURING A DIVERSITY OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES DIVERSITY OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

ECONOMIC ARTISTS PRODCTION LAORATOR CREATIVE DEICT GENERAL RENTAL STRATA ENALING STDIO DISTRITION PRODCTION PRODCTS OFFICE HOSING HOSING ACTIVITIES AND REPAIR REHEARSAL MANFACTG

LEVERAGE higher value uses to SECRE light industrial and artist space

vancouver.ca/falsecreekflats ENSURING A DIVERSITY OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES SECURING LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AND ARTIST SPACE

ECONOMIC ARTISTS PRODCTION LAORATOR CREATIVE DEICT GENERAL RENTAL STRATA ENALING STDIO DISTRITION PRODCTION PRODCTS OFFICE HOSING HOSING ACTIVITIES AND REPAIR REHEARSAL MANFACTG

LEVERAGE higher value uses to SECRE light industrial and artist space

vancouver.ca/falsecreekflats

MYTH BUSTING!

Myth busting. CONVERTING INDUSTRIAL TO MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL COAL HARBOUR VANCOUVER MYTHCONVERTING 1: CONVERT INDUSTRIALINDUSTRIAL FOR TO LIVABILITYMIXED USE & RESIDENTIALEMERGING ECONOMIES COAL HARBOUR

1,650 NORTH FALSE CREEK acres 1,650 NORTH FALSE CREEK acres

Since 1970, Vancouver Since 1970, Vancouver has converted 1,400 has converted 1,400 acres of industrial acres of industrial land to livable, mixed- land to livable, mixed- use neighbourhoods. use neighbourhoods. These lands are home These lands are home to 48k people, and will to 48k people, and will house 92k in 2041. house 92k in 2041. OLYMPIC VILLAGE OLYMPIC VILLAGE

1970 Industrial Land 1970 Industrial Land 2016 Industrial Land 2016 Industrial Land VANCOUVER MYTH 1: CONVERT INDUSTRIAL FOR LIVABILITY & EMERGING ECONOMIES

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Macintosh Shapes Up a Winner by Lawrence J. Magid The Los Angeles Times January 29, 1984 1984 VANCOUVER MYTH 2: ‘INNOVATION DISTRICTS’ NEED RESIDENTIAL

False Creek Flats Boston Innovation District Research Triangle Park, NC. FALSE450 acres CREE 4,600 FLATS housing units OSTON1,000 acres INNOVATION 12,000 housing DISTRICT units RESEARCH7,000 acres TRIANGLE1,400 housing PAR units NC (estimated in plan) (estimated in plan) (called for in plan)

450 acres 1,000 acres 7,000 acres

4,600 units 12,000 units 1,400 units (estimated in plan) (estimated in plan) (called for in plan)

10.2 units per acre 12 units per acre 0.2 units per acre VANCOUVERANTICIPATED MYTH 2: ‘INNOVATION RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS’ GROWTH NEED RESIDENTIAL

135,000 ‘INNOVATION DISTRICTS’ NEED RESIDENTIAL 2041 : Approximately 500,000 VANCOUVER MYTH 2: people within 10 minutes of the Flats or transit serving the Flats

2011 : 36,773 2041 : 58,507

2011 Population: 53,700 2041 Projection: 91,000

2011 Population: 21,425 1 5 0 2041 Projection: 37,400 M

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2011 Population: 698 A A

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E 2011 : 77,974 D 2041 : 92,571

2011 : 224,970 2041 : 235,000+ VANCOUVER MYTH 3: WITHOUT RESIDENTIAL, DEVELOPMENT WILL NEVER PROCEED

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