On Monday, Langley City gave first and second reading to rezoning 20256-20272 54A Avenue to allow a 6-storey, 114-unit apartment building. If approved, the building will have 18 studios, 69 one-bedroom units, and 27 two-bedroom units.
All development applications go through Langley City's Advisory Design Panel, which includes architects, landscape architects, and community members. The panel provides design recommendations to enhance development projects. The panel provided 18 recommendations, of which 15 the project applicant incorporated into an updated design. You can view all the recommendations from Langley City's website.
Langley City Council asked questions about traffic management and trades parking as the area has many active building construction projects. Council was assured that there would be coordination. Council reminded the applicant to be a good neighbour and provide easy-to-find contact information for people who already live in the neighbourhood.
As public hearings for residential rezoning are no longer permitted in BC, Council will consider third reading for the rezoning at an upcoming meeting.
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| Render of the proposed project at 20256-20272 54A Avenue. Select the image to enlarge. |
You can read about this proposed project and follow its progress on Langley City's new development application portal.
Council requires that if a market rental building is redeveloped, the rental units must be replaced, one for one. To secure the replacement units for the life of a building, both the City and the applicant redeveloping a building sign a binding housing agreement. Council gave first, second, and third reading to a housing agreement bylaw for the proposed project at 20200 54A Avenue to preserve eight rental units.
18 comments:
Coming from someone who lives on this street already!
We do not have enough parking as it is. The local school
Is bursting. Worst idea to build something this large here.
Unless you are going to allow parking for 2 plus cars per unit.
Please for the love of God STOP. Langley is already too overpopulated. Driving and parking in Langley has become an absolute nightmare. There is construction on every street or someone driving ridiculously slow to look for street parking. The roads keep getring more narrow and yet the population keeps growing. I've lived in Langley my entire life and now after over 30 years I'm being pushed out as it's not an enjoyable place to live. Many people moved to Langley from Vancouver/Richmond to get away from the busy city life. We don't want Langley to turn into a 15 minute city.
We need the housing bring it on
Yes, housing is always a concern. But make it AFFORDABLE! $1800 for a 1 bedroom is too much. I'd be hooped and looking for roommate to share a 1 bedroom apartment and I shouldn't have too. I make over minimum wage here. Also definitely not enough parking, unless you plan on making a two floor parking garage.
I don’t think you know what a 15 min city is. Langley is the perfect example of a 15 min city.
Need to provide more parking in this area and schools. Also, we don't need any more high end apartments, please make this affordable and not $500K for a studio/one bedroom apartment.
This ridiculous! It's designed for single, individuals who use public transportation to get around. Forget families or kids God forbid any consideration for minorities, people with disabilities or those with service animals. This is a joke. Nice idea but completely out of touch with reality of what people can afford these days
No I don’t think you know what a 15 minute city is, when you leave 56th and try to get the golden ears bridge it’s definitely not 15 minutes 🤣
Yeah this is pretty insane tbh. If you don’t plan schools, parking, and INFRASTRUCTURE. You will turn into a city that can’t keep up like maple ridge. If you want Langley to thrive you need more schools more programs and more infrastructure or the city will just fall apart like we’ve seen so many times before.
It is so disappointing to see the mass development that has clearly not been thought through. This area is bursting at the seams. No parking at all and while I love the idea of ditching vehicles it is NOT realistic when the majority of residence MUST leave the city for work. The municipal and provincial governments are extremely out of touch with the needs of cities and the realities of people living in them. Adding more housing doesn’t solve affordability. Adding more housing and removing parking or not forcing developers to add adequate parking does not make resident’s lives any easier. Our hospitals are failing. Our roads are a disgraceful bumpy mess, our schools are at capacity. BUT SURE.. let’s add more people in when we do not have the space. It’s embarrassing at this point and you should not be pleased with the work you are doing as mayor.
This is absolutely horrible. This building will tower over all other buildings in the area, completely kill the Mountain View and bright light a lot of us get through our windows and most importantly as everyone else has said , we do not have the parking space in the area. This is also so expensive for families to afford. So out of touch. How do we fight this? Can we start a petition?
There is not enough room for parking as it is now, it's going to be disastrous while this is built and afterwards. We need the infrastructure BEFORE buildings like this so that it can be supported
Definitely a 15 minute city in the making. Increase population density, while replacing roadways with bike lanes that nobody uses. Eliminate car parking and bring in 'bike parking' in multifamily developments. Has anyone considered the impact on those who cannot walk, ride a bike, or access public transit (even if public transit was adequate, which it isn't)? Downtown Langley is becoming a ghetto.
I've lived in Langley City for 45 years. It's called The Place To Be. It sure isn't anymore. I'm seriously thinking of moving.
A 15 min city refers to Langley city only. If you’re going to golden ears bridge you are driving through the township of Langley, two different municipal boundaries.
I myself have lived in Langley for 50 years, and as a Langley resident I have known that Langley’s long term goal has always been to build bigger. I get tired of people saying they moved here from Vancouver or Richmond thinking it’s always going to be a quiet small town. Langley City is part of Metro Vancouver and it’s going to get bigger and busier. For all those people who moved from Vancouver or Richmond all I can say is you should have done your homework or asked or Realtor. It’s not are fault you moved to get away from the city to only have Langley grow.
You should consider yourself lucky, the height limit in that area is 12 stories. Your lucky it’s only 6.
I have noticed around the city that some of the locations under construction have a smaller property beside it. Even though it still may be large enough for another building, I think contractors should be forced to buy small properties left behind. As it becomes to crowded and to close for comfort having a building only feet away from another building. If it were one larger buildings you can create more space between buildings and reduce on street parking, and it would just look nicer, instead of cramming yet another building in such a small space and provide no parking.
Increase lot size. A perfect example would be the south east corner of 56 Ave & 201A st.. There is a proposal to build on the land of Saigon City Market, and to the west along 201A St. there is a strip of townhouses. If you put a building in where Saigon market is the land to the west becomes useless land, it can never be redeveloped as it is to small for anything. If you increase lot size and tear down the townhouses and Saigon market. Now you can put in a larger building that uses all the land and it makes for a better use of land for development
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