Street Tree Retention Amendment
Motion 3 · Public Hearing, January 20, 2026
Summary
- Proposal: rezone 426–428 West 14th Avenue and 3015–3027 Yukon Street (Mount Pleasant/Broadway Plan area) from RT-6 to CD-1 to allow an 18-storey, 133-unit purpose-built rental building; 20% of floor area secured as below-market rental; FSR 5.5; height 58 m.
- 64 pieces of correspondence in opposition, 8 in support, 3 other; 4 speakers in favour, 28 against at the hearing.
- Opposition themes: building too tall and out of scale for a residential side street; neighbourhood character and heritage concerns; traffic on narrow streets; inadequate school and infrastructure capacity; groundwater and hydrogeological risks; 20% below-market threshold seen as insufficient.
- Support themes: housing supply and affordability; transit-oriented location near Broadway Skytrain; purpose-built rental preferred over condos; replacing low-density houses rather than existing rental stock.
- Council amendment (moved by Councillor Kirby-Yung) added detailed street-tree retention conditions, including mandatory arborist root study before permit issuance, restrictions on construction access along West 14th Avenue, excavation limits around tree protection zones, and a security deposit held for five years post-occupancy to ensure tree health.
- A staff yellow memorandum dated January 13, 2026 with amendments to rezoning conditions was incorporated into the motion.