DE419817 is sitting with the staff at City Hall awaiting final approval.

I am not against development on the site - but rather the 'out of place structure that is being
proposed to replace the current 2-story building.
The Developers want to put a 7 story building (of which there are none south of Broadway
right now)
- in a family neighbourhood
- across from a school (Lord Tennyson)
- in a neighbourhood where no building is over 5 stories and most are 2-3 stories
- filled with 5 luxury one-floor suites and 3 town homes to marketed by Sothebys
(whom the developers wife works for)
They are getting 7 stories this by claiming heritage - something that baffles anyone who
looks at the building and ignores the fact that it will dwarf two actual listed heritage buildings
beside it: 2025 West 11th - The 2-story Bessborough Armoury and 2034 West 11th the 4
story Jones Tent & Awning.
Your Heritage Department is allowing a 2-story variance on height to save a wooden structure
that, until this application, showed no signs of being heritage except that it was wooden, old
and falling apart.
Your own staff at City Hall say that they have received a lot of correspondence about this and
yet it we, who live in the neighbourhood, appear to be being ignored as this barrels its way to
approval. We have received no acknowledgement of our correspondence. We have received
no opportunity for a meeting to discuss this anomaly being proposed for our area.
Reading Stephen Quinns article today in the Globe & Mail captures what we feel and what
you, at City Hall, purport to feel. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/inthe-housing-crisis-vancouver-is-not-alone-and-london-offers-hope/article30113530/
This is not a federal government or provincial government issue.
This is a City of Vancouver decision and you have the opportunity to make the right one - the
one that will allow families, with children, to possibly move in to actually live in the
neighbourhood. A decision that will not leave us with the type of owner who can plunk down
$2million plus or so for a suite. The type of owner who we may actually never see living in
our area.
On behalf of the Strata Council of the neighbouring building, I urge you to reject this
application in its current form and to stand up for those of us watching our city being sold,
piece by piece, to the highest bidder.
Colleen Lee