An application to redevelop a former gas station property adjacent to the McDonald’s and Scottsdale Centre on Scott Road has been revised.
Council, at its Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday (April 4), heard from the applicant behind the plan to rezone the site at 11996 70 Ave., fronting the vacant North Delta Inn property.
The proposal is for a six-storey mixed-use development including underground parking, commercial spaces on the ground floor, residential units above on the remaining five storeys and rooftop outdoor amenity space.
The redesigned proposal includes 8,361-square-feet of ground-level commercial space and 90 condos. The development would also include 144 parking spaces in the underground parking structure accessed from the existing lane to the west of the site, six surface parking spaces and two loading spaces.
A report to council notes the applicant originally proposed to retain ownership of 20 market units for rental use. However, the applicant revised the application to remove the 20 rental units in response to changing real estate market conditions and the lack of a model to secure market apartment units for rental use. Staff anticipate that rentals will still occur in the building through the secondary rental market.
Meanwhile, a 39-foot statutory right-of-way at the northwest corner of the North Delta site has been provided by the owner to Delta to accommodate a future sanitary pump station to serve the proposed development and surrounding area. The negotiations between the owner and engineering department proceeded independently from the application.
The report adds that the city acquired the right-of-way at fair market value.
The application is scheduled to go back to council for preliminary consideration this May.
