Delta council at its regular meeting next week (July 28) is scheduled to consider granting preliminary rezoning approval for a proposed six-storey condo building in a Tsawwassen neighbourhood.
Called the Beacon House, the project, located at 5535 14B Ave., 5550 15B Ave., 1500, 1512 and 1524 55A St., would include 177 market units, as well as 248 residential parking spaces and 18 visitor parking spaces. A required loading space would be in an on-street parking pocket on 55A Street.
Council is to consider allowing the properties to be rezoned the from their current Single Detached Residential (RS1) and Duplex/Single Detached Residential (RD3) to Apartment Residential 6 (RA6). The approval of a development variance permit is delegated to the city’s general manager of development.
The application is consistent with the site’s Official Community Plan (OCP) designation of Neighbourhood Centres and Corridors, intended for multi-unit residential and mixed uses in neighbourhood centres and along major corridors. That means a public hearing would not be held.
The main building types envisioned under the OCP designation are townhouses, low-rise and mid-rise apartment buildings, as well as commercial or mixed-use buildings with retail uses primarily on the ground floor.
An arborist’s report notes 34 on-site trees would be removed as well as 19 city and shared trees. All the retained trees are at the rear of the property.
A traffic study notes that a traffic impact assessment found that the traffic generated by the development, when integrated with the existing and projected conditions of the surrounding road network, would remain manageable, and the incremental impact of the proposed Beacon House Residential Development is minimal.
The city received the application in March 2025.
