What do you think of this project?

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Here's the admin report. This would allow a maximum height of 50 metres (~14 storeys), but also includes an amendment to the Urban Warehouse zone that would increase the max density for the entire zone from 500 dwellings/hectare to 2,200 dwellings/hectare.
 
Even though the UW Zone parameters are hard to define (apparently they keep changing), if we take a rational assessment that the zone might be at least 5 hectares in size we are talking about a population potential of 11,000 dwellings or about 25,000 people. That realized would certainly put some oomph in downtown viability.
 
archited said:
Even though the UW Zone parameters are hard to define (apparently they keep changing), if we take a rational assessment that the zone might be at least 5 hectares in size we are talking about a population potential of 11,000 dwellings or about 25,000 people. That realized would certainly put some oomph in downtown viability.
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This is the current definition, from the report:

"...all properties zoned Urban Warehouse which is land Downtown generally between 104 Avenue, Jasper Avenue, 109 Street and 105 Street, and identified as the Central Warehouse sub-area within the Capital City Downtown Plan."
 
Yes, @CplKlinger, I realize that... but NorQuest changes the zone to suite their edu functions and the LRT changes zoning for another function so the UW zoning keeps shrinking. I like the notion of saving the character of the Warehouse function -- it gives a special kind of panache for the historic area's relevance. I was just trying to scope the relevance from a population perspective.
 
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