Determined to move ahead in helping to shape the future of False Creek South, the FCSNA through its RePlan Committee is seizing the initiative with its own community planning process and inviting participation at a neighbourhood workshop on January 25 and 29.
Driven by an emerging opportunity for a major innovation on currently underutilized land, this new inclusive process seeks community-wide input and ultimately consensus on a vision for the future and how it can best be incrementally advanced. Presenters at the meeting will demonstrate how future development can both embody and advance the values and virtues of the present and address the key contexts within which planning can provide for both continuity and change. The new proposal will be based on the planning principles that were developed by local residents with City staff and adopted unanimously by City Council in 2018.
The proposal will introduce the concept of an “Intergenerational Hub” that could help to define the neighbourhood going forward, starting with the underdeveloped land near the Olympic Village Skytrain Station. The Hub would include a major expansion and modernization of the current Broadway Lodge care facility and associated housing for seniors and others who can live more independently with appropriate health supports. It would also include a significant expansion of existing co-ops to house seniors and families with children as well as a considerable amount of workforce housing adjacent to the SkyTrain Station.
False Creek South was developed through a creative partnership of the three levels of government. The purpose of the workshop is to fully inform residents about the new opportunities and widen community discussion so that residents can have a central voice in working with the three governments to retain and expand this highly livable mixed income community. Over 80% of the housing is on land owned by the City and leased to co-ops, non-profit societies or stratas. Implementation will require long term leases for existing and new development.
The larger intention is to develop a coherent plan that will set the planning agenda – including the resolution of lease issues — for the future of this wonderful neighbourhood. The hope is to work in partnership to create a renewed model for the City’s emergent Vancouver Plan as well as the National and Provincial Housing Strategies. Your thoughts and ideas will be welcome.
RSVP for the January 25 workshop here and the January 29 workshop here