111 Princess

Date:	2009 Oct 6/8   –   Agenda with Link to Minutes
Item:	4. REZONING: 111 Princess Avenue (formerly 590 Alexander Street)
Vote:	CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY (Councillor Cadman absent for the vote) (Councillors Deal and Stevenson and the Mayor ineligible to vote)
Summary:	“To rezone from DEOD (Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a 10-storey residential building with a total floor space ratio of 5.29. This rezoning provides for the development of 139 supportive housing units, and specifically meets the objectives of the Housing Plan for the Downtown Eastside, and the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Province pertaining to the 12 City-owned sites.”
Written:	42 emails and letters in support; 3 emails and letter in opposition
Speakers:	35 “in favour”; 7 “in opposition”; 2 “neither for nor against the application but expressed concerns or provided comments about the neighbourhood”
Note:	Karin Litzcke. “Social housing activists were on other side in 2009” [letter], Vancouver Sun (29 Jan 2011) C3