On March 28, 2019, City Planning met with the applicant, the property owners to the north and community league representatives to discuss the application. The community indicated three options, with the best case scenario having the development comply with the Jasper Place Area Redevelopment Plan. The following is a summary of the options presented:
1. Preferred Option: any supported built form in the Active Edge Housing precinct of the ARP (single/semi/row housing with garden and/or secondary suites, small scale commercial with associated residential uses)
2. Stacked Row Housing: this would appeal to families
3. Least Supported: apartment housing, as there have been several issues associated with the existing large volume of apartment buildings in the neighbourhood. Apartments would very reluctantly be accepted if:
a. all ground floor units are 3-bedroom family units
b. there is no commercial component (as the multi-family precinct does not allow commercial on sites other than 156 Street NW).
c. three quarters of parking is underground
d. surface parking is visually screened from the building and surrounding areas
The applicant indicated that the proposal would remain as an apartment building with a commercial component, but offered some alterations to the built form and unit size/count in order to encourage more family dwellings.
One month following the meeting, the applicant provided the following revisions from the original proposal:
● reduction in total number of residential units from 41 to 37
● reduction of Floor Area Ratio from 1.6 to 1.5
● increase in number of 3-bedroom dwellings from unspecified (likely two) to five at ground level
● increase in number of 2-bedroom dwellings from unspecified (likely eleven) to fifteen
● additional 1.7 m stepback for the 4th storey on the north facade
● limitation to only one Bar and Neighbourhood Pub, Restaurant or Specialty Food Service, with a limitation of maximum 150 m2 of public space or 125 occupants.
