Affordable Housing Yes! Mega Towers No!

An avenue to voice your opinion, and gather more information on the proposed towers at the Safeway site at Commercial and Broadway.

https://nosafewaymegatowers.ca/

Fight the Fortress!

• These impersonal skyscrapers will spoil our neighbourhood, the tallest towering  over 340 feet high, equal to 39 storeys.  
• The developer says they will be 30, 29 and 25 storeys tall - on TOP of the retail "plinth". When the retail "plinth" - section - is taken into account, the building heights will be equal to 39, 34 and 30 storeys above ground level.
• The Grandview Woodland Community Plan, which was passed in 2016 after painstaking consultation with the Grandview community, agreed to new housing in buildings ranging from 12 to 24 storeys at that Safeway site.
• The Grandview Woodland plan calls for a generous, centrally-located public plaza.
•  There is no real plaza - only a wide passage beside the noisy skytrain, all in shadow.  Bleak.

VERY LITTLE SOCIAL BENEFIT  20 non-market housing units is completely inadequate:
–for the massive size of the site
                  –for the height bonuses being requested
                  –for the city’s housing affordability crisis

There is a better design!

This previous design concept is more in keeping with what the community and City felt appropriate for this site.

Get Involved!

• Tell the City what you think in this short survey
• •Talk to friends and neighbours 
• •Write letters of concern to Mayor and Council

The website includes a pre written letter to send to the Mayor and councillors, as well as a link to send to the organizers for more information.