Short items from rezoning applications, council decisions and project updates across Metro Vancouver.

Region-wide

The pipeline is rental now

A development tracker updated October 26 counts 58 rezoning applications across Metro Vancouver proposing 25,465 homes. In its latest update, five projects were added — 1,615 homes — and not one of them is for sale: 1,399 are secured rental and 216 are social housing. The two largest are 1,000 rental homes at 8530–8550 Cambie Street in Vancouver and 216 social housing homes on Boundary Road. The five are approvals from earlier council sittings that a review found missing from the tracker; no Metro Vancouver council decided a rezoning between October 20 and 26.

Source: VancouverDwelling development tracker, Oct. 26, 2026.

Vancouver · Oakridge

Oakridge Park wants lighter rules

Developers QuadReal and Westbank have applied to amend the zoning for Oakridge Park, the city’s single largest development. They want to drop the requirement for a public car-share fleet and an e-bike fleet, cut the cap on private car-share vehicles in phase one from 42 to 22, and reduce transit-pass reimbursement from two passes per household to one per home. The developers argue the original 2012–13 requirements no longer match city norms — Vancouver removed minimum parking requirements citywide in June 2024. For context: the mall and Time Out Market opened in May 2026, a Safeway flagship followed in August and a Fairleigh Dickinson University campus in September. The first five residential towers — 700 strata condos and 180 social housing units — are expected in early 2027.

Source: zoning amendment application, as reported Oct. 2026.

Vancouver · Arbutus Ridge

One staircase, six storeys

Vancouver’s first proposal under the city’s new single-egress staircase framework is a six-storey wood-frame building at 2150 West 16th Avenue, designed by B Squared Architecture for developer PCube. It would replace a 1944-era house with 24 secured rental homes: 16 two-bedroom units averaging 865 square feet and eight three-bedroom units averaging 1,036 square feet. The site sits about a 12-minute walk from the future Arbutus SkyTrain station. Council approved the framework in December 2025, and the B.C. Building Code has allowed six-storey single-staircase residential buildings since 2024. The idea is simple: more homes on single lots, without complex land assemblies.

Source: rezoning application, as reported Oct. 2026.

Surrey · Burnaby

Stalled projects restart

Two projects that fell into creditor protection earlier this year are moving again. In Surrey, Intergulf has been retained to complete Phase Two of Nova by Mortise Group, a 93-unit condo project. In Burnaby, Townline will complete Moonlight Sonata by Symphony Homes, a 130-unit townhouse project. In the same week, new office construction in Vancouver sat at a 15-year low, with vacancy at 11.8 per cent — the highest since the early 2000s, according to Cushman & Wakefield figures.

Source: Vancouver Real Estate Rundown, Oct. 5–12, 2026.