Summary:
- Vancouver city council has set aside its planners’ advice and approved, in principle, the Goh Ballet’s plan for a 25-storey student housing tower on Main Street.
- With an amendment from Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung, council struck a staff recommendation to send the project back for more work, and instead approved the rezoning application subject to conditions, including a requirement that the student-housing units be owned or leased by a public, post-secondary institution. The project will also require further review and work with city staff before any building can proceed.
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City planners had recommended against approving the tower, warning the lot at Main Street and East 8th Avenue is too small to properly hold a building that size — a “conspicuously tall building out of scale with the low-scale Main Street Village context,” the staff report said.
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