A special Community deisgn workshop is slated to take place   in the  atrium of the Duchess Park  Secondary School at 7 this evening.  The design  session  is looking for involvement from  any person, organization, or agencies that may be affected by recommended changes to the City’s residential polices for the area bounded by Winnipeg Street, Victoria Street, 4th Avenue, and 11th Avenue.

The City is proposing alloiwng up to six storey wood fame construction within this special district.

The  special wood district  is one of the initiatives of the  Downtown Partnership  which flows from the  recent Smart Growth on the Ground concept plan which envisioned a Vancouver-Victoria Street Flex/Transition District as an area that would provide a transition in building form from the downtown core to the Crescents residential neighbourhood, with 3-4 storey attached residential townhouses, with mixed commercial facing Victoria Street. 

For the blocks between Vancouver and Winnipeg Streets, the Crescents Neighbourhood Plan supports redevelopment and densification with residential infill with 3 – 4 storey apartment buildings (up to 90 units/ha) or lower density townhouses (up to 40 units/ha), depending on the location.