Most Recent Update: January 26th, 2024
With the fate of only two proposals left to be decided, we’ve opted to unpin this from the top of City Duo’s homepage in favour of an article on its successor, the Secured Rental Policy.
After I wrote our MIRHPP guide (with Hannah’s help), we wondered how hard it would be to gather a list of all the homes proposed under the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy since it was created in 2012. As you can see from the map below, my curiosity eventually won out and, a few hours later, this guide was born.
On November 26th, 2019 city council officially closed this policy to new enquiries, though any project submitted before this date was allowed to move forward (pg 16-17 A). In December 2021, city council approved what is essentially its replacement, the streamlined Secured Rental Policy.
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Status |
Pin Colour |
Status |
Line Colour |
| Approved | Green | Local Shopping Area (LSA) | Red |
| Proposed | Yellow | ||
| Enquiry | Orange | 500 M Range of LSA | Blue |
| Withdrawn/Rejected | Black |
All together, 27 proposals that will create 1,628 rental homes have been approved, while one that would have provided 21 homes was rejected and another two that would have offered 158 homes have been withdrawn by their proponent. No projects are scheduled for a public hearing. Two applications with a combined total of 97 rental homes remain at the rezoning stage.
This city-wide policy allowed for 6-storey buildings on properties along arterial streets within 500 meters of a “Local Shopping Area.” Outside that distance, sites were limited to 4 floors, and were required to be located within 100 meters of an arterial road.
However, it did not apply to areas that already permit 6 floor or taller buildings (e.g. Downtown, Yaletown, the West End), nor to those with a recently approved community plan (e.g. Grandview Woodland, the Cambie Corridor, and Marpole).
Though a cap on the amount of applications that can be filed under this program was eventually removed, it still forbid more than two within 10 blocks of each other on the same arterial road. Originally, applications in the 100 meter zone were limited to 3.5 floors, but this was relaxed to four floors by city council in 2018.
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Referred To Public Hearing |
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Address |
# Rental Homes |
Date Of Council Meeting |
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Rezoning Application |
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Address |
# Rental Homes |
Open House Date |
| 2090 SW Marine Dr |
25 |
November 7th – 27th, 2022 (Online Open House) |
| 4906-4958 Main St (Revised Sept 2022) |
72 |
November 7th – 27th, 2022 |
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Rejected/Withdrawn * |
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Address |
# Rental Homes |
Submitted |
Rejected/ Withdrawn |
| 3615 – 3645 Fraser St |
64 |
January 14th, 2019 (Date of Pre-application Open House) |
Before 2021 – Withdrawn by the applicant at the enquiry stage (details here) |
| 4575 Granville St – First Application |
21 |
June 2018 | June 2019 – Rejected by city council. A second proposal was approved here in 2021. |
| 3701 – 3743 W Broadway |
94 |
December 2016 (Revised April, 2017) |
Before November 2019 – Withdrawn by the applicant at the rezoning stage. A larger MIRHP Policy proposal was approved here in 2020. |
* Our understanding is that there have been far more proposals that were withdrawn, or rejected by city staff at the enquiry stage. However, as these are not made public, we cannot confirm how many have failed to proceed.
| Approved | |||
| Address | # Rental Homes | Rezoning Submitted | Rezoning Approved |
| 1980 SW Marine Dr | 28 | June, 2022 | January, 2024 |
| 7018 Main St | 131 | March 2021 (Revised July2022) | July 2023 |
| 4408-4488 Fraser St and 707-709 E 29th | 100 | July 2021 | June 2022 |
| 1515 W 49th Ave | 8 | March 2020 (Revised May 2021 & Feb 2022) | June 2022 |
| 4575 Granville St – Second Application | 24 | December 2020 | October 2021 |
| 3449 – 3479 W 41st Ave & 5665 Collingwood St | 114 | May 2020 (Revised Sept. 2020) | September 2021 |
| 4426 – 4464 Knight St & 1406 E 28th Ave | 72 | June 2020 | September 2021 |
| 1405 E 15th Ave & 3071 – 3047 Maddams St | 81 | June 2020 | July 2021 |
| 3609 – 3687 Arbutus St | 116 | April 2020 | June 2021 |
| 7280 Fraser St (in conjunction with 724 East 56th Ave) | 95 | December 2019 | December 2020 |
| 724 East 56th Ave (in conjunction with 7280 Fraser St) | 12 | December 2019 | December 2020 |
| 4570 Granville St & 1494 W 32nd Ave | 81 | December 2019 | July 2020 |
| 6031 Dunbar St | 9 | December 2019 | July 2020 |
| 686 E 22nd Ave, 3811-3833 Fraser St & 679 E 23rd Ave | 121 | June 2018 | June 2019 |
| 708 – 796 Renfrew St & 2906 – 2908 E Georgia St | 73 | December 2018 | June 2019 |
| 2715 W 12th Ave | 14 | August 2017 | April 2019 |
| 5809 – 5811 Main St | 12 | November 2017 | July 2018 |
| 2109 W 35th Ave | 12 | November 2017 | July 2018 |
| 3560 – 3570 Hull St & 2070 – 2090 E 20th Ave | 69 | August 2017 | July 2018 |
| 3281 – 3295 E 22nd Ave | 55 | May 2017 | May 2018 |
| 3868 – 3898 Rupert St & 3304 – 3308 E 22nd Ave | 98 | May 2016 | May 2017 |
| 1037 W King Edward Ave | 36 | July 2015 | May 2016 |
| 3365 Commercial Dr & 1695 – 1775 E 18th Ave | 114 | March 2015 | November 2016 |
| 2095 W 43rd Ave | 17 | July 2014 | February 2015 |
| 3120 – 3184 Knight St | 51 | September 2013 | May 2014 |
| 1729, 1733 & 1735 E 33rd Ave | 31 | September 2012 | April 2014 |
| 3323 – 3367 E 4th Ave | 54 | September 2013 | March 2014 |
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