WATERFRONT
VANCOUVER
Vancouver’s waterfront is....
KEY FACTS ...
Vancouver is a growing city with a vibrant economy. Together, over
the years, we’ve made the kinds of choices that have turned our
home into one of the world’s most livable cities and on track to be the
Greenest City in the world by 2020.
• Metro Vancouver is the third largest
metropolitan area in Canada
»» Has a resident population of 2,356,000
»» Expected to grow by 46% by 2040
• City of Vancouver has a population of
617,200 residents and 406,700 jobs
»» Expected to grow to 788,000 people
(28%) and 505,000 jobs (24%) by 2041
»» 52% of the population speaks a first
language other than English
• Downtown has 8% of land area and 19%
of population
• Hosted 2010 Winter Olympics and
Winter Paralympics
• Hosted FIFA Women’s World Cup
Key City Policies:
Downtown Vancouver is bound by three different water bodies
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Transportation 2040 Plan
Greenest City Action Plan
Healthy City Strategy
Renewable City Strategy
Housing and Homelessness
Strategy
Metro Core Jobs and
Economy Plan
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With its scenic views, mild climate, and friendly people, Vancouver is
known around the world as both a popular tourist attraction and one
of the best places to live.
Over the past two decades, since
Vancouver hosted the Expo 86 World’s Fair
and since the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic
Games, a number of new inner city
neighbourhoods have emerged out of the
planning process and into reality, offering
attractive urban alternatives to suburbia.
Downtown Vancouver, in particular, has
undergone a profound change as it has
urbanized and densified, while at the
same time gaining significant new public
amenities.
With almost 50,000 new residents being
added in the past twenty years alone,
the downtown peninsula now is home to
about 114,100 people and is set to double
its pre-Expo 86 population to over 130,000
people within the next decade. While
there is a long history of neighbourhood
planning in Vancouver, the opportunity to
create entirely new neighbourhoods within
existing communities has fostered new
planning, urban design and consultative
strategies reflecting a true collaboration
of the public and private sectors. These
strategies combine the skill and vision
of architects, urban designers, planners,
landscape architects and engineers
interacting with developers, local
communities and other stakeholders.
Since the 1980’s, Vancouver’s planning and
urban design approach to accommodating
growth in the inner city has focused on
a “Living First” strategy, while ensuring
ample capacity for new jobs and the
economy. The aim has been to create urban
communities that are more sustainable
environmentally, socially and economically.
Downtown Vancouver and Coal Harbour
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Lacking contemporary examples to draw
from, Vancouver has framed its own
urban model, based on a set of organizing
principles for structuring and shaping
diverse, integrated, adaptable and highly
livable inner city neighbourhoods.
Limit commuter car access into the
downtown
Provide priority to pedestrians, cyclists and
transit users, rather than alleviating traffic
congestion.
Develop complete neighbourhoods at a
pedestrian scale
Provide a mix of mutually supportive uses
and activities focused on a commercial
high street and providing a full array of
amenities (schools, daycares, community
centres, parks, etc.).
Provide a diverse housing mix
Provide a range of both market and nonmarket housing, mixed incomes, single
and family households, seniors and special
needs housing.
Vancouver prides itself on its distinct
attitude towards urban design which
is played out at the neighbourhood or
precinct level, as well as at the scale
of individual buildings. Urban design is
the shaping of the city through careful
choreography and design of all its built and
natural physical components to create a
functional, safe, meaningful and beautiful
urban environment. Vancouver’s added
challenge is the integration of the built
environment with the city’s spectacular
natural setting. Key urban design principles
to accommodate these include:
Extending the fabric, patterns and
character of the existing city into new
areas
Ensuring that its new neighbourhoods
integrate with the surrounding city context.
Encourage active street edges
Promote public realm by focusing public
life on the street and through its special
treatment, including sidewalk beautification
and art. The principle is that sidewalks must
Illustration of the new Pacific Boulevard as part of the Northeast False Creek Plan
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function as the effective living rooms of
the neighbourhoods. This insistence on the
priority of the street as the centrepoint of
neighbourhood activity and socializing has
prompted the complete transformation of
many streetscapes resulting in increased
public safety, convenience, amenity and
beauty.
Open space and green linkages should
bring amenity and image to each
neighbourhood
A generous park standard has led to 65
acres of new parks being added to the
downtown peninsula inventory over the last
decade, all of which are tied together by a
spectacular waterfront walkway/bikeway
system.
Dedicate the water’s edge to the public
The waters edge should be dedicated for
public use at the time of zoning approval,
and must be delivered fully developed for
recreational use. This is Vancouver’s single
most popular civic initiative, now stretching
over 28 kilometres. (Note: The City avoids
burdening the existing taxpayer with the
costs of such facilities and amenities by
ensuring these costs are borne by the new
developments being served.)
Supporting these organizing principles
is the pursuit, with developers and their
design teams, of building forms that
achieve, even at high density, a truly
domestic, livable housing environment
with appeal to a wide range of households.
Noise, danger, over-viewing, invasion of
privacy, lack of sun access and insensitivity
to the needs of children can limit the
attractiveness of urban living. Among
a variety of housing forms which have
emerged, one unique to Vancouver places
2 to 3-storey rowhouses facing the street,
with exceptionally slim, widely spaced
apartment towers and landscaped private
courtyards and gardens behind.
The rowhouses, set behind double rows of
trees, are a viable alternative to the single
family house, accommodating families
with children, pets, or the preference
Yaletown and Roundhouse Neighbourhood within False Creek North
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for a private front door or the need for
more storage. The slim apartment towers
behind offer privacy and separation and
highly valued mountain and water views
for residents while minimizing intrusion on
pedestrian scale and shadowing on streets,
public open spaces and private gardens.
At the detailed level of architecture
further design responses are pursued in
concert with developers’ architects and
landscape architects through Vancouver’s
discretionary development review process
to engender a sense of domesticity and
livability that truly makes the residential
city a reality, despite (many would argue,
because of) high densities.
Employing innovative and cooperative
planning techniques, a comprehensive
consultative process has engaged both
public and private sectors at multiple
levels. Ultimately, Vancouver’s approach to
urban growth has met the true measure
of success: its new neighbourhoods have
proved to be enormously popular with the
broad spectrum of consumers. With their
urban vitality, housing diversity, range of
convenient amenities and lifestyle choices,
Vancouver’s new neighbourhoods offer a
competitive alternative to North America’s
50-year romance with the suburbs.
The selected new neighbourhoods
described in this document are Coal
Harbour and False Creek North. Both
are located in Vancouver’s downtown
peninsula.
The latter part of this document focuses
on the current thinking and planning
for Northeast False Creek, Vancouver’s
last remaining large tract of downtown
waterfront.
Northeast False Creek
Northeast False Creek
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Coal Harbour
centre, an elementary school, two childcare
centres, and a 250-berth marina complete
with waterfront restaurant.
Gross Area: 16.6 ha (41 ac)
Population: 3,800
Density (upa): 56
Housing Units: 2,300
Non-market Units: 450
Parks/Open Space: 6.5 ha (16 ac)
Marathon Developments, the real estate
arm of Canadian Pacific Railroad, inherited
and has developed, along with developers
of individual parcels, a large stretch of
former railway lands from Burrard Street to
Cardero Street. When built out, Marathon’s
Coal Harbour project will contain about 436
630 m2 (4.7 million sq. ft.), including 2,300
residential units, plus a mix of office, hotel,
retail and service space. A new convention
centre, completed in 2010, was also part
of the plan. Coal Harbour includes an
eight acre waterfront park, a community
The planning of Coal Harbour responded
to three different neighbourhood contexts:
a relatively undeveloped area to the west,
an emerging high density residential
area to the south (Triangle West), and
the Central Business District to the east.
In response, Coal Harbour was planned
as three distinct precincts: the westerly
Marina neighbourhood which has a diverse
mix of housing types and marine-related
uses; the central Harbour Green residential
neighbourhood focused on a large
waterfront park; and Burrard Landing to the
east which initially contained commercial
uses but, in further rezonings in 2001
broadened its scope to incorporate the
new convention centre and live/work uses
(in addition to hotel, retail and office uses).
Coal Harbour Neighbourhood
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Coal Harbour
These three precincts and the Bayshore
neighbourhood are tied together by the
continuous waterfront walkway/bikeway
which links Stanley Park to the Downtown.
corresponding to the three precincts.
A key urban design principle, well
established in City policy, was the
preservation of water and mountain views
down north-south streets. Public views
of landmarks such as the heritage Marine
Building were also incorporated into the
plan, as were optimizing private views
from adjacent upland properties. To a large
extent, building locations were established
by such view corridor overlays, as well as
technical limitations on filling of the water
area.
The waterfronting edge was designed
to create a diverse urban waterfront
experience, including park space, marina
activity with related commercial use, a
restaurant over the water, a community
centre, a publicly-accessible floating
dock, a convention centre, a one block
long waterfront street, and other streetends extending to the water as citylinking promenades. With Harbour Green
Park and the strategically positioned
commercial and other active uses now in
place, this urban waterfront edge is quickly
becoming Vancouver’s premier waterfront
promenade.
The new shoreline was shaped to
create a series of focal points along the
site’s continuous waterfront walkway,
While the original design intent was to
reference the site’s historical role as the
western terminus of the trans-Canada
Vancouver Convention Centre on Burrard Inlet
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Coal Harbour
railroad and as a working waterfront, this
has met with only limited success to date.
Efforts in this regard are being pursued
in the final phases of development,
predominantly through public art.
The new neighbourhood profile has created
a diverse demographic mix, with nonmarket housing, affordable rental housing,
high end market housing, live/work
and hotel uses. Harbour Green Park has
become a major waterfront public space,
connecting back to the north-south streets
and mediating the grade change between
the waterfront and the upland escarpment.
The new community centre, with its rooftop
Coal Harbour Park, is grouped with a future
school and daycare, creating a broad mix of
public uses.
Extensive public consultation was
undertaken during the planning and
rezoning of Coal Harbour. The new ‘megaproject’ cooperative planning approvals
process (invented and tested on the
Concord Pacific site) was used, whereby
the developer and City staff worked
together to create the plan and resolve
issues before the formal submission. This
model has since been successfully adapted
to other major urban projects. As it nears
completion, Coal Harbour is unfolding as a
radical re-invention of Vancouver’s urban
waterfront from working port to a masterplanned waterfront community.
The ‘Digital Orca’ at the Vancouver Convention Centre
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False Creek North
high density development. A portion of
the original lands north of the Dunsmuir
Viaduct and Expo Boulevard, was sold
to Henderson Development to become
what is now the International Village
neighbourhood.
Gross Area: 67 ha (166 ac)
Population: 13,000
Density (upa): 50
Housing Units: 11,511
Non-market Units: 1,272
Parks/Open Space: 17 ha (42 ac)
The former Expo 86 site included some
67 hectares (166 acres) of land, stretching
along the north shore of False Creek
between Granville Bridge and Quebec
Street, and north as far as Beatty and
Pender Streets. This mile long stretch of
land essentially defines the southeastern
edge of Vancouver’s downtown peninsula,
from Pender Street in the north to Beach
Avenue in the south. The land was sold
by the provincial government to Concord
Pacific and underwent several rezonings
to permit comprehensive, mixed use,
Planning for this extensive area included
the design of new streets, infrastructure,
a modified shoreline and the creation of a
range of public amenities and park spaces.
An initial concept proposed by the
developer used False Creek itself as
a major organizing element, with the
water extending into the site to Pacific
Boulevard as a series of ‘lagoons’
surrounding several island-like housing
precincts, creating a ‘resort in the city’.
Reaction to the “Lagoons” scheme from
the public and City staff raised concerns
about the privatization of the water body,
False Creek, Vancouver
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its segregation from the rest of the city,
as well as technical problems with the
lagoons water areas. After rejection of the
“Lagoons” scheme, the developer agreed
to have their design team work closely with
the City’s team of planners, urban designers
and engineers in pursuing a new scheme
that more closely reflected the existing
shoreline and was better connected back
to the adjacent areas.
The resulting master plan incorporated
several key urban design strategies,
reflecting a set of organizing principles.
Prime among these was the desire to create
a series of local neighbourhoods along
False Creek, each focused on a bay and
separated by a large public park. Another
was the decision, simple in hindsight but
a radical influence on the emerging urban
form, to extend the existing downtown
street grid across Pacific Boulevard
out towards the water. The simple yet
powerful notion of extending the city street
pattern and urban fabric to the waterfront
repudiated 80 years of urban planning in
which the dominant model in Vancouver
was a city cut off from its waterfront by an
impregnable layer of industry and railways.
The development of Concord Pacific Place
affirmed the urban design principle that
public streets are the primary ordering
device of city building, accommodating
incremental development, providing robust
flexibility and helping to integrate new
development with the surrounding urban
structure.
The creation of several distinct precincts
helped with the necessary phasing of
development as well as addressing the
potential deadening effect of a single
masterplanned community. Creating
The False Creek North neighbourhood wraps around False Creek
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False Creek North
distinctive design guidelines for each of
the precincts and then employing different
architects for the various development
parcels, has contributed to a rich variety of
built form and public spaces.
Concord Pacific Place also explored new
urban design strategies for high density
high rise residential living. Vancouver’s
now well established requirement for
a minimum 80 feet distance between
slim residential towers, invented and first
tested in Downtown South, was also used
here along with other strategies such as
staggered tower locations, humanly scaled
streetwall housing podiums to “tame” the
impact of the towers at the sidewalk and
the use of podium rooftops for semiprivate
courtyards, family outdoor play space, and
private patios to achieve a high level of
amenity in this dense urban environment.
One of the most notable achievements
of Concord Pacific Place, from the public
perspective, is the remarkable range
and scope of civic amenities which were
required of the developer through the
rezoning process.
Some 42 acres of public park space have
been created, in addition to many more
acres of semi-private open space. A
continuous 10 m (35 ft.) wide waterfront
walkway/bikeway links the parks and
street-ends, and substantially completes
the public waterfront access loop around
False Creek.
New policies were codified ensuring that
25% of the housing would be designed
for families. A requirement of 20% of
residential units are targeted to be nonmarket housing, with four of the eleven fully
integrated sites now built and occupied.
Downtown Vancouver’s waterfront is bounded by a continuous loop for people of all ages and abilities
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False Creek North
Two elementary schools, four daycare
centres, a full-service community centre
(The Roundhouse - an adaptive re-use of
the railway’s historic train maintenance
facility), multi-purpose meeting rooms,
a sports fieldhouse, parking for the
Stadium, and money for ‘green links’ to
adjacent downtown neighbourhoods
complete the impressive public amenities
package. Vancouver’s approach to the
planning of waterfront neighbourhoods,
perhaps unique in the world, places nonmarket housing and community facilities
such as schools and daycares amongst
market residential developments at the
water’s edge. A public art program is
being implemented with each phase of
development. These public amenities are all
contributing to the creation not of a single
use enclave but rather a complete urban
community.
Impressive as these statistics are, perhaps
the most notable aspect of Concord Pacific
Place is what it has done to reinvigorate
downtown Vancouver as a vibrant, mixeduse community. Concord Pacific Place
will add over 20,000 new residents to
downtown when it is fully built out and
this, combined with many more thousands
moving into the other areas undergoing
redevelopment on the downtown
peninsula, is responsible for Vancouver
becoming an international model of inner
city revitalization. There is the inherent
sustainability advantage that comes from
bringing people and their place of work
close together: more and more people are
walking, cycling or using public transit on
the downtown peninsula.
Recent surveys now show that over 60%
of all downtown trips are done without the
use of a private vehicle. From 1996 to 2011,
SkyTrain entering downtown Vancouver
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the total population (+75%), number of jobs
(+26%), and number of people entering the
downtown (+15%) have increased. During
the same period, the number of vehicles
entering the downtown has decreased
(-15%).
Concord Pacific Place is making a
major contribution to the emergence in
Vancouver of a new urban paradigm.
building this is barely the beginning of time
for this major sector of the downtown.
Concord Pacific Place is rapidly coalescing
as a model of high density inner city urban
living, while demonstrating a remarkable
degree of civic amenity. It only remains for
time to work its wonders in creating the
sense of a truly lived-in community with all
its human diversity, colour and complexity.
If there is a criticism of Concord Pacific
Place it may be that it suffers to a degree
from its own success. So much new
development has happened so fast that
it does convey a somewhat immutable,
untouchable quality, almost too pristine. All
great city neighbourhoods develop, over
time, a patina reflecting the full diversity
of human endeavour and creativity, and
this has yet to take hold in Concord Pacific
Place. But in the grand scheme of city
Population and Job Growth vs. Vehicle and Person Trips
Downtown Vancouver, 1996-2011
(Peak Periods: 6-9am, 11am - 1pm, 3-6pm)
250,000
People entering
downtown
200,000
Citywide
+18%
Population
150,000
+16%
Jobs
100,000
Motor vehicles
entering downtown
50,000
0
2001
1996
Population
Jobs
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2006
2011
(estimate)
People
Entering
Downtown
Vehicles
Entering
Downtown
+75%
+26%
+15%
-15%
1996-2011
1996-2011
1996-2011
1996-2011
Population and Job Growth statistics from the Transportation 2040 Plan
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Decade of Achievements’ (1999)
-5%
Cars entering
City
1996-2011
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING ...
Cultural History of Northeast False Creek
First Nations
Vancouver is situated on the unceded traditional
homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and TsleilWaututh First Nations.
The False Creek area was an abundant area for fishing,
harvesting, and hunting for these Nations, each who had
their own relationship to the area, with place names and
usages for the lands and resources there. Vancouver is
also home to First Nations, Métis and Inuit from across
Canada, and Indigenous peoples from around the world.
Industry
In Vancouver’s early years, most of the False Creek
waterfront was used for railway yards and industrial sites
(particularly sawmills). In 1915, the original Georgia Viaduct
was built to bypass the tidal waters, rail lines, and industry
lands below.
Chinatown
In the 1880s Chinatown developed around Carrall and
Pender Streets, established by Chinese immigrants who
moved to Vancouver to work as industrial labourers. As the
community grew, Chinatown became one of Vancouver’s
first commercial and residential districts. In 1971 the
provincial government designated Chinatown as a historic
district.
Hogan’s Alley
Hogan’s Alley was home to a multicultural community, but
it is most well known as being the arrival city and primary
community of Vancouver’s African-Canadian population
The Black community established itself in the area by 1923,
primarily due to the neighbourhood’s proximity to the
railway station nearby where many of the men worked as
porters. It was mostly destroyed in the late 1960s during the
construction of the new Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts.
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OUR WATERFRONT VISION IS ...
In 2015, City Council embraced a new vision for the Northeast False
Creek waterfront, where Vancouver’s only experiment with inner city
freeways (the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts) will be replaced with
a vibrant, mixed use neighbourhood with expansive, new waterfront
parks and open spaces.
Guiding Principles for the Northeast False Creek Area Plan:
1. Reconnect the Historic Communities and the False Creek Waterfront.
2. Expand Parks and Open Space.
3. Repair the Urban Fabric.
4.Explore Housing Development and Place-Making Opportunities on the City Blocks.
5. Create a Vibrant Waterfront District.
6.Increase Efficiency of the Street Network
7. Improve Connectivity between Downtown, NEFC and the Waterfront.
8.Enhanced Pedestrian and Cyclist Movement.
9.Develop a Fiscally Responsible Approach.
10.Engage Residents and Stakeholders in a Meaningful Way.
11.Strengthen the Festival and Entertainment Function of the Area.
Reconnecting Communities
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OUR WATERFRONT MISSION IS ...
Through extensive community consultation with local residents, businesses, and
stakeholder groups, Staff heard that the viaducts pose a significant physical and
psychological barrier for local communities, the downtown, and the waterfront.
The Northeast False Creek area is anticipated to accommodate future growth of the
downtown and waterfront communities. It is the last component of the False Creek North
Official Development Plan (1990) and represents a significant opportunity to complete
the downtown waterfront. The area will provide opportunities for a mix of new homes and
job space. This new waterfront neighbourhood is planned to include:
• A minimum of 20% of units delivered as
affordable housing
• At least 1.8 million sq.ft. of new job
space that anchors the entertainment
district to the False Creek waterfront
and contributes towards meeting the
goals of the Metro Core Jobs and
Economy Land Use Plan.
• A maximum gross density between
3.3 - 3.8 million sq.ft. of residential and
non-residential uses.
• Other public benefits achieved through
increased density, such as daycare and
community centres.
• A minimum target of approximately 13
acres of new park and open space.
• A vibrant new commercial waterfront
district that completes the Vancouver
waterfront and strengthens the special
event function of the area.
Northeast False Creek Conceptual Plan
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OUR CHALLENGES ...
Planning for Northeast False Creek is an extremely complex
endeavour, but as with every challenge there are incredible
opportunities to create a signature waterfront for Vancouver.
Exceptional Public Places, Architecture
and Urban Design
Northeast False Creek is Vancouver’s last
remaining downtown waterfront, with
excellent solar access on a south facing
shore. This creates an opportunity and a
challenge to apply our greatest creativity
and lessons from previous waterfront
planning to create an exceptional
waterfront not just for area residents, but
with creative and vibrant public spaces for
the region as a whole.
Affordable Housing
A minimum of 20% of floorspace must
be delivered as affordable housing by
all residential developments, which is
consistent with Council-approved policies.
Multiple Landowners and Project Phasing
The lands in Northeast False Creek
are under the ownership of the City of
Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia
and include large tracts of privately-owned
lands. This multiple ownership complicates
the implementation of a cohesive overall
area plan and the phasing of construction
of new roads and utilities, but also provides
an opportunity for new development to
fund new infrastructure, parks and public
amenities.
Events and Liveability
The two adjacent downtown stadia, BC
Place and Rogers arena, host 73,000
attendees. 100,000s of people a year also
attend diverse special events in the area
such as the Dragon Boat Festival and
multiple marathons.
Residential use in close proximity to the
special event district requires meeting
challenging interior acoustic performance
standards to ensure the liveability of the
residents.
The replacement road network must be
designed to accommodate stadium loading
requirements as well as large crowds
moving through the area pre- and postevent.
Climate Change and Rising Sea Level
Northeast False Creek is generally built
on fill that is just above current sea level.
Provincial requirements require the entire
area to be raised in elevation, and parks
and seawalls will have to be designed to
mitigate against potential future flooding
and storm surges.
Soil Remediation
As a former heavy industrial area, the soils
in Northeast False Creek are significantly
contaminated and will have to be managed
in a way that is consistent with Provincial
environmental standards.
Pushing the Limits of Sustainability
There are substantial Council policies
that require the area to push the limits
on sustainability, including the Greenest
City Action Plan and the Renewable City
Plan. These expectations are heightened
by the City’s previous major waterfront
neighbourhood development, the Olympic
Village in Southeast False Creek, which was
the first neighbourhood in North America
to achieve the LEED ND Platinum rating.
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