District of West Vancouver has received a rezoning application for a 8-storey building containing 89 condo units.
The new development is located at 657 & 675 Marine Drive and 660 Clyde Avenue.
Executive Park Limited Partnership has applied for the rezoning from commercial to mixed-use. Of the 89 units, 21 units will be rental for the life of the building.
Heritage protection of the “Woyat-Bowie” commercial building is also being proposed.
The site is comprised of four separate lots with three addresses: 660 Clyde Avenue, 675 Marine Drive and 657 Marine Drive.
The consolidated lots create a “J” shaped development site.
A separated bike path, a parkette, children’s play equipment, a water feature, gardening areas, and 112 underground parking spaces and 93 bike storage lockers are also being proposed.
The developer also plans to designate the “Woyat-Bowie” building as a municipal resource and ensure its ongoing protection and maintenance.
The commercial building at 660 Clyde Avenue, known as the “WoyatBowie Building,” was added to the West Vancouver Community Heritage Register in 2019.
Constructed in 1966, the building is significant because it is an early and intact example of a commercial building, for its expression of the West Coast aesthetic in a nonresidential form, and its association with the architects Fred Hollingsworth and Barry Downs.
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More condos?? We have so much congestion in West Vancouver now. You can barely move around in vehicles to get groceries locally as it is. Never mind trying to get across Lions Gate bridge or Second Narrows bridge to leave the North Shore. Before building anymore condos, we need new bridge/tunnel crossings!
Unfortunately the bridge/tunnel is at least 30 years away, as we’re not even seriously talking about these. In the meantime, we need to ease up on the popular “war on cars” on the North Shore. The North Shore is hilly, so cycling is not always feasible, and there are many low density neighborhoods, so public transit is understandably poor. This means cars are essential, whether we like it or not. Hence measures to discourage car use are often ill-advised, and coupled with more condos (which I’m not fundamentally opposed to) are going to result in a transportation disaster if we don’t correct course now.
I agree wholeheartedly.
I can’t imagine any appeal in living on the south side.
About 20 -25 years ago a very good local MLA named Jeremy Dalton worked hard and campaigned for a second bridge crossing from the North Shore. He got little political support, even from the leader of his party, and seemed to be a voice in the wilderness. Jeremy is no longer with us but deserves a lot of credit for his efforts.
I made an error, should read “THIRD” crossing