About 10 steel-and-glass highrises, much like the one proposed for Yukon and 14th, are set to arise among character homes within the Broadway plan zone.

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Susan Mackey-Jameson and Dan Bilsker are bracing themselves for a jarring 18-storey tower set to go up next door to their three-storey fourplex in Vancouver. City council approved the tower on Jan. 22 for the southwest corner of Yukon and 14th.

Their pleasant neighbourhood, three blocks south of city hall, is replete with gardens, tall boulevard trees, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes. Many are character dwellings, some are heritage homes. The concrete-and-steel rental tower will soar above it all, an anomaly.

In some ways, however, the residential tower will be typical of scores of highrises set to flood into the Broadway plan zone, an area of about 500 city blocks in Vancouver, since council gave it the green light in 2022.

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More than 180 large buildings packed with almost 25,000 units, mostly rentals, have been either approved or proposed. Some will go on busy urban streets.........

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