Key Sustainability Features     •    Redevelopment of brownfield site    •    Redirection of population growth from suburban to urban areas    •    Reduced dependency on the automobile    •    Street calming to increase walkability    •    Increased urban open space    •    Mixed-use, mixed-income neighbourhood    •    Market and non-market (social and seniors) housingIn 1989, the City of Vancouver introduced a policy that allows the rezoning of marginal industrial land for residential use. The new policy opened up the former brewery site on the Arbutus Lands for development. The adoption of the Arbutus Neighbourhood Policy Plan came after an extensive public planning process and was an important first step in the implementation of the city’s policy.The Arbutus Neighbourhood Policy Plan reflects many of the key principles from Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy. By identifying this marginal industrial land and allowing for its redevelopment by Concert Properties Ltd. into a liveable, high-density residential neighbourhood, the City directed growth into urban neighbourhoods that might otherwise have occurredas suburban sprawl. READ MORE