New TOD in Town
Currently the City of Vancouver?s largest transit-oriented development, Marine Gateway is a mixed-use development that adjoins the Sky-train station of the same name. Photo: Andrew Latreille
TEXT Sean Ruthen
PHOTOS Andrew Latreille, unless otherwise noted
Travelling through Metro Vancouver on any given day, one sees a few dozen cranes in the air assembling business-as-usual residential towers. More recently, however, a trailblazer has appeared among the usual suspects, wearing its residential and mixed-use density like a badge of honour: the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
Unlike its predecessor, the podium-tower, which turned land-lift into a development and real estate windfall, the TOD is all about plugging residents into the Smart City. Among its many tenets, the Smart City model advocates for robust public transit systems, enabling healthy urban growth with less reliance on private automobiles. The outcome is that the catchment areas around transit stations become ideal places to rezone to allow for higher density. Because of the city?s Green Building legislation, creating a TOD in Vancouver also means providing a community amenity contribution and building to LEED Gold standard (soon to be upgraded to Passive House standard). TODs can also provide opportunities for much needed affordable housing?the ?missing middle? of the housing market, between single family homes and condominium towers?often built in the form of street-scaled townhouses, duplexes and triplexes...
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