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Proposed 80-storey building near Lougheed Town Centre passes Burnaby council's 3rd reading
(www.burnabynow.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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So the 94-storey Brentwood plan was chopped a bit?
Don't know about that one, but this plan has been tossed around for a year now.
I don't doubt it! CoViD has kinda ruined all the timelines.
If this thing passed three readings and is 80 storeys, I'll bet it was 90-odd at first reading! The ultimate question is, what's the altitude on the roof? If it's 1000 feet minus an inch, we know that it's as high as it could have been. And while Brentwood's in a physical depression and could fit 95 floors under 1000ft altitude, if this one's been trimmed it's because it's not so lucky.
And, you know, this one's a good start. Only after we build a forest of those can we start working on housing prices and begin offsetting bungalows back into parkland and farmland; because it seems we're short of those and housing space, but among housing, farming and green-space, really only one of them can be fixed without finding or making new land.
I'm actually surprised this made it to third reading already! If you look at the city's most recent list of major development projects, there are more than a few projects that have been languishing for years since their second reading. That's actually why I posted this -- I fully expected third reading for this project to take much longer than one year.