The buildup in the area surrounding around Oakridge Centre continues with a proposal for an 18-storey market rental building with a four-storey podium at 441 to 475 West 42nd Avenue.
The site, which is currently home to three single-family houses, is just off Cambie Street and within the Oakridge Municipal Town Centre cited in the Cambie Corridor Plan.
The Oakridge MTC covers the area around Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue and the City of Vancouver’s goals for it include “increasing height and density to provide social and rental housing opportunities, increasing job space, delivering amenities and establishing buildings that reflect the importance of this transit-oriented, regionally significant hub.”
Urban Solutions Architecture filed the rezoning application for the West 42nd Avenue project on behalf of its client GEC. The proposal features 124 rental units, 20 per cent of which would be below market rental housing as required under the Cambie corridor phase three plan.
Most of the units are proposed to be two to four-bedrooms.
The building would also include a rooftop indoor/outdoor amenity space and a children’s play area above the podium, a floor space ratio of 6.67, 39 parking stalls, four car-share spaces and 291 bicycle parking spaces.
“Parking and car‐share spaces are based on 40 per cent for provision of rental plus 20 per cent based on transit accessibility reductions for a total 60 per cent reduction,” the application states.
Several other building projects are also in the works in the area, including ones at 357 to 475 West 41st Avenue (a 10-storey mixed-use rental building) and 325 to 343 West 41st Avenue (a 22-storey and a 14-storey mixed-use building), as well as two highrises for a site across from Oakridge mall.
Oakridge Centre is also being redeveloped into what its developers have called "a mini-city."
An open house for Urban Solutions Architecture and GEC’s rezoning application runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Centre, Nov. 20.
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