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Introduction
Guidelines & Regulations
Panel Members
Meetings
Further Information
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First Shaughnessy Advisory
Design Panel
Information
Early in the twentieth century
the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver’s largest landowner and real
estate developer at the time, developed a tract of its forest at the edge
of the City into a neighbourhood that reflected the wealth and status
of the residents. In 1982, to preserve the area’s pre-1940 estate
image and single-family character while allowing change, the First
Shaughnessy Official Development Plan (pdf,
59 kb) was enacted and Design
Guidelines (pdf, 1.02 mb) approved by
Council.
The Panel is an advisory body authorized to make recommendations
regarding development matters to Council, the Development
Permit Board or the Director of Planning. It does not have the authority
to approve or refuse projects or make policy decisions. Its Terms of Reference
are given in Appendix A of the Guidelines and were reviewed and updated
in 1994 and 2001. The First Shaughnessy Heritage Inventory, an inventory
of pre-1940 buildings, is given in Appendix B. Many of the buildings within
this inventory have also been evaluated as meriting inclusion onto the Vancouver Heritage Register (pdf,
355 kb). A Walking Tour of
the First Shaughnessy District, complete with map and photographs,
is available through the Heritage Conservation
Program.
Development controls that should
be referred to when undertaking development in the First Shaughnessy District
include:
Proposals for uses other than
a single-family dwelling should also refer to the appropriate guidelines,
including:
The Panel is composed of fourteen
members and includes:
- 4 representatives of the Shaughnessy Heights Property
Owner’s Association;
- 4 representatives of the resident members-at-large
(current residents of First Shaughnessy);
- 2 representatives from the Architectural Institute
of B.C.;
- 2 representatives from the B.C. Society of Landscape
Architects;
- 1 representative of the Heritage Advisory Committee;
and
- 1 representative from the Real
Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.
Panel members are appointed
by City Council for a two-year term and serve without remuneration. A
resident appointee who is the current Chair of the First Shaughnessy Advisory
Design Panel may be reappointed by Council to a third term of two years.
To volunteer on this or any
other civic agency, please refer to the City
Clerk’s Department for eligibility requirements and membership applications.
Panel meetings are held every
three weeks throughout the year with special meetings convened when necessary.
The meetings are typically held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in Committee
Room #2 on the third floor, City Hall. Meeting
dates and Minutes are available from the City Clerk’s web site.
Material must be received by 1:00 p.m., nine days in advance of the meeting for review and distribution to the Panel.
- Contact Rachael Sydenham by email or phone 604-873-7936 to coordinate delivery
- Deliver models to the 2nd floor of the Main City Hall, attention: First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel
- Send all other material to the 3rd Floor, East Wing, 2675 Yukon Street, c/o Rachael Sydenham
If you would like further information
on the First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel which is not covered by
the sources above, please contact a Development Planner.
- Ann McLean, MAIBC, by e-mail or phone 604-873-7387
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