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Public Hearing Transcript TRANSCRIPT OF THE PUBLIC HEARING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CITY HALL, 141 WEST 14th STREET, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C., ON MONDAY, JULY 7, 2008 AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS STAFF MEMBERS Mayor D.R. Mussatto A.K. Tollstam, City Manager Councillor P.J. Bookham S.E. Dowey, City Clerk Councillor R.J. Fearnley J.M. Rowe, Assistant City Clerk Councillor R.N. Heywood G. Penway, Deputy Director, Community Development Councillor C.R. Keating K. Russell, Development Planner Councillor B.W. Perrault S. Wilks, Timekeeper Councillor S.A. Schechter Bylaws Nos. 7932, 7933 & 7938 – 2151 Lonsdale Avenue – File: 3345-02 LONS 2151 AND Bylaws Nos. 7934, 7935 & 7936 –721 Chesterfield Avenue – File: 3345-02 CHES 721 The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:03 p.m. Mayor D.R. Mussatto Ms. Dowey! Ms. S.E. Dowey, City Clerk Thank you Your Worship. The first item is OCP Bylaw No. 7932 is to amend Schedule A of the “City of North Vancouver Official Community Plan Bylaw, 2002, No. 7425” to change the Land Use Designation for 2151 Lonsdale Avenue, legally described as Lot 1, Block 206, D.L. 545, Plan LMP43980 from “School & Institutional” as follows: ¾ Site ‘A’ to Urban Corridor Mixed Use (2.3 FSR) ¾ Sites ‘B’ and ‘C’ to “Residential Level Five: Medium Density” ( 1.6 FSR) and Zoning Bylaw No. 7933 is to rezone Lot 1, Block 206, D.L. 545, Plan LMP43980, located at 2151 Lonsdale Avenue. The amending bylaw will have the effect of reclassifying the said property from P-1 (Public Use and Assembly 1) Zone to CD-557 (Comprehensive Development 557) Zone: Site A: To provide for a development potential of 2.3 FSR and to permit construction of a five storey building to house the North Vancouver School District Educational Services Centre and Artists for Kids Gallery/Studio. This building would be excluded from Gross Floor Area calculations. Parking, loading and recycling/garbage would be located underground with vehicular access from West 21st Street. Site B: To permit 213 apartment and townhouse units in two four storey buildings and two smaller townhouse buildings fronting Chesterfield Avenue. The proposed density is 1.6 FSR, plus a density transfer from Site ‘A’. The units would be comprised of 102 one-bedroom units, 35 one-bedroom plus den, 36 two- bedroom units, 21 two-bedroom plus den, 8 three-bedroom units and 11 three- bedroom plus den units. Parking and recycling/garbage would be located underground with vehicular access from West 21st Street. Site C:To permit rental or special needs housing at up to 1.6 FSR and four storeys. The North Vancouver School District No. 44 proposes to donate this site to HYAD (Housing for Young Adults with Disabilities) for construction of a three-storey building with 16 dwelling units, including live-in manager support and common space, for young adults with mental disabilities capable of independent living. Four parking stalls will be provided underground with access from West 21st Street. Heritage Designation Bylaw No. 7938 (Ridgeway Elementary School) in conjunction with Bylaws Nos. 7932 and 7933, Lot A (Explanatory Plan 10930), Block 100, D.L. 550, Plan 1232, at 420 East 8th Street, the lot occupied by the heritage building known as Ridgeway Elementary School, would be designated as a Municipal Heritage Site. This would have the effect of protecting this primary heritage building for subsequent rehabilitation. The applicants are NORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 44/GRANT & SINCLAIR ARCHITECTS LTD., VIA ARCHITECTURE INC. and Council will consider this under items 10, 11, and 12 this evening, Your Worship. I have received 95 letters and emails in favour of the proposal and 4 letters and emails opposed and all these letters have been circulated to Council. Thank you, Your Worship. Mayor Mussatto Thank you Ms. Dowey. I am just going to take a guess here that I think there are a few people that have never been in a gallery before so certainly, welcome to all of you. The way we will work tonight is Mr. Penway will present the City staff’s point of view and information and then the applicant will be given 10 minutes to speak with regards to the application and then we will be up to members of the public to make their representation. Mr. Penway, the floor is yours! Mr. Gary Penway, Deputy Director, Community Development Thank you Your Worship. I will give a fairly brief presentation and then the applicants will speak. We are dealing first with the project which is known as the former Lonsdale School site for the PowerPoint presentation which will be on the screen. There is a model in the centre of the Council Chambers and there are boards to my right, the west side of the Council Chambers. City of North Vancouver Page 2 of 77 Public Hearing Re: North Vancouver School District No. 44 July 7, 2008 2151 Lonsdale Avenue (Lonsdale School Site) 721 Chesterfield Avenue (Queen Mary School Site) Your Worship, this project goes back some time. Council dealt with this last summer in July, 2007 and gave direction of how the application should evolve and that is what has happened to arrive at this point. So the bylaws are now at first reading and here for a Public Hearing. Your Worship, in terms of the context of this site. This plan shows the site as being on 22nd Street to the north, Chesterfield Avenue to the west, Lonsdale Avenue to the east and 21st Street to the south with four apartment buildings that front on to 21st Street, which is immediately south of the old Lonsdale School site. There is a laneway through here which runs only partially open now that served primarily Lonsdale School in the past, and then Rey Sargent Park, is the park in this area here at the corner of Lonsdale and 21st Street. This application includes the North Vancouver School District properties, which is the single lot owned by the North Vancouver School District. There is also contemplated in this development the closure of a portion of laneway, which runs from 21st Street to that property, to provide vehicular access and a small strip of the park land here adjacent to that laneway, which will also be closed as part of that. And a compensating park slightly larger, which is this laneway piece in here on the north side of Rey Sargent Park. In fact be designated as park land so the net size in the park increases and this plan here shows sort of an evolution of that as it shapes up the parcels we see. Parcels A, B and C are all part of the former Lonsdale School site. The parcel, for this presentation purpose, I am labeling D, is the portion that would become part of that through a sale of the City land to the North Vancouver School District as part of the eventual development, should it be approved and then Rey Sargent Park will remain, and in fact, be enhanced and expanded, which is described here as Parcel E. There are three bylaws before you, Your Worship, that relate to this application that are before the Public Hearing. The first is an Official Community Plan change. So, currently in our Official Community Plan which sets the long range direction for the City’s land use. These lands have had a school and institutional designation since 1980 because it has been a school since 1980. The school use closed several years ago and the application is to change the existing Official Community Plan designation and the intention would be to pick up on Official Community Plan designations which relate to it. So for example, to the immediate south is a medium density designation at 1.6 fsr. The same is to the north across 22nd Street, 1.6 fsr residential, and so the intention is to apply that to the majority of this site. There is a designation, which is shown in a sort of a pink pattern colour here; this is an urban corridor designation which runs from 21st Street south to 17th Street. The intention would be to apply that to a portion on this site which the North Vancouver School District intends to keep ownership of. So, if it were to be approved this is how the Official Community Plan would look. These designations would be contiguous through this part of the blocks through the 100 block west of 21st and 22nd and the urban corridor designation would pick up on the same designation as exists at 21st Street. City of North Vancouver Page 3 of 77 Public Hearing Re: North Vancouver School District No. 44 July 7, 2008 2151 Lonsdale Avenue (Lonsdale School Site) 721 Chesterfield Avenue (Queen Mary School Site) Your Worship, that is the first bylaw before you this evening. The Official Community Plan change in terms of the schedule as attached to the map it looks like this. So, there is a Site A, which is what will still be the North Vancouver School District property and a Site B and C, which both received the same designation of 1.6fsr Medium Density. In terms of zoning, Your Worship, all of these lands would have a single zone. It would be called the Comprehensive Development 557 Zone. Within that zone it would provide for on Site A a variety of commercial and institutional uses that will provide for a floor space ratio of 2.3 times the lot area. On this site would be built the North Vancouver School Board Administration Building; approximately 60,000 sq.ft.
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