Vancouver Rezoning Applications for November 2026 Snapshot

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Every month for many years, CityHallWatch took a snapshot of rezoning and development applications in the City of Vancouver and published the lists here. This is the snapshot for November 1, 2026.

The City stopped using its old rezoning and development application web pages (vancouver.ca/rezapps and vancouver.ca/devapps) and moved everything to its “Shape Your City” online platform. Public engagement used to be more complete. In-person open houses were common, but that changed during COVID. Now engagement is mostly online, you only see what the City chooses to show right now, and older information disappears. There are no handy lists and no archives.

That is why we keep our own. Our snapshot archive is a public service: a month-by-month record of what was proposed and what was approved. If you see an application of concern, please spread the word to anyone who might be affected or interested.

For years we have covered some of the projects and policies in dedicated posts. We also keep an interactive map of rezoning applications in the Broadway Plan area: Broadway Plan rezoning map. In the lists below, approved applications are shown for the past 12 months (approved by Council on or after 1 November 2025).

This month’s lists in our rezoning applications snapshot include 68 proposed rezonings and 131 approved rezonings.

New rezoning applications. Five applications were first published on Shape Your City since 1 October 2026: 3410-3436 Kingsway (CD-1, 5.82 FSR, 88.4 m / 290 ft), 2158-2170 W 1st Ave (CD-1 (928) amendment, 8.73 FSR, 92 m / 301 ft), 2150 W 16th Ave (CD-1, 2.89 FSR, 18.3 m / 60 ft), 650 W 41st Ave (Oakridge) (text amendment to CD-1(1) that removes vehicle parking minimums) and 461-479 E 16th Ave (text amendment to the conditions of an approved rezoning). (FSR, or floor space ratio, is Vancouver’s shorthand measure of density or coverage: a building’s total floor area minus exclusions divided by the area of its site.)

Below is our list of rezoning applications as of 1-Nov-2026.

Coming soon

These rezoning applications appear in the City’s permit database but are not yet posted on Shape Your City. Some may be revised or abandoned before they reach Shape Your City or any other consultation platform.

1485 Davie Street (RZ-2026-00056, filed September 17, 2026): RM-5D to CD-1, 32-storey mixed-use rental building with 340 units (62 below-market), 9.86 FSR, 91.8 m / 301 ft

601 Bute Street and 1218-1222 Melville Street (RZ-2026-00057, filed September 21, 2026): DD to CD-1, 40-storey mixed-use rental building over a six-storey hotel and commercial podium with 328 rental units, 17.29 FSR, 121 m / 398.5 ft

525 E 5th Avenue (RZ-2026-00060, filed September 29, 2026): R5-3 to CD-1, two 30-storey mixed-use rental buildings with 582 units under the Broadway Plan, 6.64 FSR, 113.5 m / 372.3 ft

404-434 W 23rd Avenue (RZ-2026-00061, filed October 1, 2026): RM-8A to CD-1 under the Transit-Oriented Areas Rezoning Policy, 25-storey mixed-use building with 77 market strata units, 5.65 FSR, 81.9 m / 269 ft to the rooftop parapet

Proposed rezonings

Approved rezonings (approved by Council in the past 12 months)

388 Abbott St – approved following Public Hearings on July 23 and July 27, 2026

1444 Alberni St and 740 Nicola St – approved July 28, 2026

1706-1738 Alberni Street and 735 Bidwell Street – approved May 5, 2026

4615 Arbutus St – approved January 13, 2026

7051 Ash Crescent (Langara Gardens) – approved February 12, 2026

5229-5249 Ash St – approved July 29, 2026

6212-6218 Ash St – approved July 14, 2026

1150 Barclay St – approved December 4, 2025

2538 Birch Street (formerly 1296 West Broadway) – approved following Public Hearings on July 23 and July 27, 2026

5027-5053 Boundary Rd – approved July 29, 2026