THE RICHMOND UPDATES THREAD
After a long hiatus, I have finally gotten around to starting the long-promised Richmond updates thread! The City of Richmond has many under-the-radar projects, both in and outside of the city centre, and I would like to dedicate some attention to them here. I took a bike ride around Richmond to show most of the current projects underway.
First, some useful links:
The Richmond Official Community Plan
- Outlines Land use and has colourful maps of the city’s zoning designations. There is a large map (2041 OCP Land Use” as well as
https://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/bylaws/ocp/sched2.htm?PageMode=HTML.
The Richmond Interactive Map, which shows where rezoning and development applications are located. To turn them on, click on “Planning Services” at the left and turn on “Active Development Applications.” What’s nice about the RIM is that it often shows new applications before any other resource in this list, and that you can see every single application submitted for a site, even completed ones.
Current Development Applications List - Updated monthly; lists new development applications only. It can be easier to discover new applications through this list than through the map, although they are not organized by date for whatever reason.
City Council Hearings - Allows you to find out about the next rezoning applications to debated at city hall. Excellent place to find the applications themselves, with architectural renderings and all.
Development Permit Panel Hearings - Allows you to find out about the next development applications to be debated. Find renderings here too.
Weekly Updated list of Building Permits - Often the best place to see which projects are about to start construction. Most of the stuff in here is SFH’s though.
City Centre future road plan: self explanatory. Although most of this plan is at least 5 or 10 years away, some of the roads are currently in the planning process. One of the most major is River Road (the long red line referred to as the North Loop Road), which will allow the city to build a massive park on the Fraser River, as well as many developments on the East side of the Road.
THREADS FOR CURRENT RICHMOND PROJECTS (updated June 2018)
International Trade Centre - vanman - Under Construction.
Concord Gardens - VancouverOfTheFuture - Complete and Under construction
Pinnacle Park Place - mr.x - Complete, Under construction and Proposed
Viewstar - SkyboxInvestment - Starting construction
River Green - metroXpress - Under construction
Steveston Updates - whatnext - This thread has been quiet a while
Garden City Lands Park - Genauso - Giant new city park
Parc Riveria - officedweller - almost complete; 6 storey midrises + Townhouses
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