Last Monday, Langley City Council gave first and second reading to a rezoning bylaw that would enable the construction of a 6-storey, 95-unit apartment building on the corner of 53rd Avenue and 200th Street if adopted.
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| Rendering of proposed building at 5302 200 St, 20030 53A Ave, & 20011-20031 53 Ave. Select the image to enlarge. |
The applicant previously submitted a building with a slightly different design back in 2022. It included a "green" roof and extensive top-floor unit patios. The proposed building had 84 units, including five three-bedroom units, 34 two-bedroom units, 36 one-bedroom + flex units, eight one-bedroom units, and one studio. According to the application, the building design and unit mix made it financially unviable to construct, so they value-engineered a new building design. This design includes streamlining some design elements, increasing the number of units, and adjusting the unit mix.
You can read my 2022 post about the original design of the building. The unit mix of the currently proposed building will have 27 studios, 40 one-bedroom units, 18 one-bedroom + flex units, and 10 two-bedroom units. This building is market-pricing, and each unit will be for sale.
Council discussed the lack of three-bedroom apartment units in this project. As I previously noted, Langley City Council has directed City staff to develop a three-bedroom unit policy. About 25% of our community's new housing units (including townhouses and 'plexes) should have three or more bedrooms per our housing needs report. Of course, overall, we need more housing units period across all unit types.
The provincial and federal governments must play a significant role in incentivizing the construction of affordable three or more bedroom housing for families.
You can read about the feedback from Langley City's Advisory Design Panel that the application incorporated into the building's design.
Council also gave third and final reading, and issued a development permit, to allow the change of unit mix for the building at 5382 200 Street. You can learn more about this in a previous post.
9 comments:
Very concerning the direction developments are heading , where are growing families going to live ? Yes The provincial and federal governments must play a significant role in incentivizing the construction of affordable three or more bedroom housing for families without over-reaching on their rights and freedom
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I am more concerned about the PRICING of the Units.... As I read it, they will all be for Sale... Can some be RENT TO OWN, or offer other alternatives... like 30% of Income rentals maybe managed by BCHousing or someone else ... maybe for 30% of the Units???? I don't believe we need More Housing - We need More AFFORDABLE housing ... nothing over 30% of normal people's salaries - more in line with $70 - 90k For a family or $30 - 40 K for a Senior person on fixed income
I am begging for more affordable housing, I shouldn't be using over 50% of my income to be able to live alone, I don't want to have to rely on roommates either. Not this over $2000/per month for a one bedroom unit. If my landlords sell the house I'm currently in, I will have literally no where to go because I can't afford the rent prices. And not many places allow pets anymore. And what's going to happen to the school?
The school is being expanded.
This is positively nuts. Langley used to be this beautiful Farm town. A City that people strived to live in. Quiet, GREEN. Now it's congested, stuffed full of people, construction everywhere, vast amounts of green space disappearing. Ugly roads and giant apartment buildings scattered randomly around with no rhyme or reason. Beautiful peaceful neighborhoods destroyed for what? I get that Cities need to expand, but at what point should we say, enough is enough? The greed is getting out of control. No more!
I agree with you Jenn. This Mayor and some council members agenda is obvious unfortunately. Willoughby is the same. It doesn't matter how many new builds there are. If you set the price at market pricing and allow open bidding. The cost will never reduce. It doesn't matter how many homes you build. It's all about the skytrain. When the skytrain comes. You will add more population and then add new homes. More people, more competition and the prices won't drop. I live in the City as well. The only people who are buying the houses are developers. Families can't afford to but a home. It won't matter if you put a duplex, tri plex or 4 plex. I am sympathetic to people who are struggling 100%. The government needs to step in a set prices based on the cost of living. Not allow homes to be built for financial gain.
I love the fact we will have new homes coming in during the housing crunch. But please accommodate 3 bedrooms into the design. Also ask the developers to add some kids activities within the site.
The problem with this proposal is that there are 27 studio units. So 27 units with no bedroom whatsoever. This type of housing for sale is ridiculous and should not be allowed, as it just encourages more developers to build more units with no bedrooms. These type of units are good for renters, but not for home owners this is the wrong direction to be going in, just to make them more affordable. Second this proposal should purchase the land to the north to make the property bigger and sell larger units, as of now it is a smaller property which another developer will have to purchase and build an even smaller building with smaller units probably with no bedrooms to make any kind of profit. The city need to increase lot sizes to build larger buildings instead of mickey mousing building that are to small for family housing.
Agreed! They are expanding high density housing at light speed yet taking well functioning 2 lane roads and making stupid transit/bike lanes. No insight
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