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111 East 5th Avenue rezoning site, Mount Pleasant, Vancouver

What the public record shows

A rezoning application for data centre use that the City has sent back for more consultation.

The City of Vancouver publishes a rezoning application for 111 East 5th Avenue that would allow Bulk Data Storage use inside an existing commercial building, with below-grade parking converted to mechanical and electrical space. The application was received on 2025-09-04, referred to a public hearing on 2026-07-14, pulled from the 2026-07-23 hearing agenda, and referred back to staff on 2026-07-21 for further public consultation that the City says will not begin until after the election. No rezoning has been approved.

What is missing

  • The City application page states no electrical capacity, no water use and no cooling design for the site.
  • The July 2026 referral report sits on a City of Vancouver domain that refused automated retrieval, so any condition it may contain is not recorded here.
  • The registered owner is not named on the application page and no title search was performed.

Open questions

  • TELUS's 2026-05-11 release names an M3 facility in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood opening at the end of 2026 and scaling through 2028. BC + AI has not confirmed from any official record that the M3 facility is this rezoning site, so no TELUS relationship, schedule or heat commitment is attached to this record.

Last reviewed . Verification state: official-source. Fairness review: pending. Each identified subject gets a factual correction opportunity before any record containing ownership, control or adverse material is indexed. A correction opportunity is a fairness step, not a veto over sourced public-interest reporting. Corrections go through the contact route.

Registry ID
PC-FAC-001
Aggregation review
review-required
Current source
111 E 5th Ave rezoning applicationPC-SRC-101

Identity, ownership and control

Who owns and operates the record, with protected commercial detail withheld by reason category instead of silently deleted.

  • Westbank Corp.

    rezoning-applicantReported
    Effective from
    2025-09-04
    Review status
    verified

  • City of Vancouver

    local-government-authorityReported
    Effective from
    2025-09-04
    Review status
    verified
  • Ownership percentProtected
  • Control mechanismProtected

Location and authority context

General public location at a security-appropriate precision. Parcel detail is protected, and First Nations process fields are Nation-controlled.

General location
111 East 5th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Vancouver. Civic address published by the City of Vancouver on its own application page.
Municipality or regional district
City of Vancouver
Land tenure category
not-disclosed
Coordinate precision
civic-address
Watershed
unknown
Grid / service territory
unknown; no retrieved source states the electricity service arrangement for this site
Authority
City of Vancouver
  • Parcel/site identifierProtected
  • First Nations process statusNation-controlled
  • Nation-approved public summaryNation-controlled
  • Sensitive receptor / emergency contextProtected

The registry does not identify or determine rights holders, consultation or accommodation duties, or consent. Potentially affected Nations are identified only through authoritative processes.

Lifecycle and milestones

Planned versus actual dates stay separate, and a missing date stays visibly unknown.

Electricity and grid

Requested, allocated, contracted and connected MW are four different fields. This record shows each one separately with its own state and evidence.

  • Requested MW

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    The City of Vancouver rezoning application page (PC-SRC-101) states no electrical capacity for this site, and BC + AI has retrieved no utility record for it.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Allocated MW

    Actual / deliveredNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    The City of Vancouver rezoning application page (PC-SRC-101) states no electrical capacity for this site, and BC + AI has retrieved no utility record for it.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Contracted MW

    Actual / deliveredNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Boundary and method
    The City of Vancouver rezoning application page (PC-SRC-101) states no electrical capacity for this site, and BC + AI has retrieved no utility record for it.
    Supply / service class
    unknown
    Additionality
    no claim

  • Connected MW

    Actual / deliveredNot applicable

    Not applicable

    Boundary and method
    The rezoning is undecided and no data centre use is authorised at this site (PC-SRC-101), so there is no connected data centre load to report. Absence of a value here is not a statement that the existing building draws no power.
    Supply / service class
    not-applicable
    Additionality
    not-applicable
  • Grid upgrade / cost responsibilityProtected

Water, cooling, heat and backup generation

PUE and WUE only appear with their boundary, period, method context and assurance status. Heat that exists is not heat that is reused.

  • Annual consumption

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Measurement boundary
    No boundary published.
    Method and climate/load context
    The City of Vancouver application page (PC-SRC-101) states no water use and no cooling design for this site.
    Assurance status
    not-reviewed
    Water source / cooling mode
    not-disclosed
    Heat quality and availability
    not-applicable

  • Heat reuse committed

    Committed / expectedNot publicly disclosed

    Not publicly disclosed

    Measurement boundary
    No boundary published.
    Method and climate/load context
    TELUS states that its Vancouver facilities are designed to integrate into the City of Vancouver's Neighbourhood Energy Utility in Mount Pleasant (PC-SRC-102). The City application page BC + AI retrieved records no heat-recovery condition, and the July 2026 referral report could not be retrieved. Heat recovery at this site is an unverified design intent, not a committed quantity.
    Assurance status
    not-reviewed
    Water source / cooling mode
    not-disclosed
    Heat quality and availability
    not-disclosed

Environmental and physical impacts

Baseline, forecast and actual values stay separate, with permits and conditions cited where they exist.

  • noise

    BaselineUnknown

    Unknown

    Boundary, method and period
    No public noise study, baseline or permit condition for this site has been retrieved. The City application page (PC-SRC-101) records none.

Employment, procurement and community commitments

Committed numbers and delivered numbers are different claims. Each row is labelled as one or the other.

    • Agreement / milestoneProtected

    Indigenous ownership, governance and data arrangements

    This entire table is Nation-controlled. Nothing from it serializes to the public projection, this page, exports or metadata.

    Collection, interpretation, use, retention and publication of this field family are governed by the relevant Nation or authorized body. The registry publishes it only where disclosure is authorized, and no such authorization exists for any current record. Review rules PC-REV-001 and PC-REV-002 in the canonical pack keep this exclusion in force until authorized reviewers clear them.

    • Indigenous governance record IDNation-controlled
    • Facility IDNation-controlled
    • Arrangement typeNation-controlled
    • Agreement existence / statusNation-controlled
    • Nation-approved public summaryNation-controlled
    • Data-governance arrangementNation-controlled
    • Disclosure authority referenceNation-controlled
    • Disclosure review dateNation-controlled
    • Disclosure classNation-controlled
    • Value stateNation-controlled

    Benefits, procurement, equity or revenue arrangements are never a substitute for rights, title, consultation, accommodation, consent or Nation decision authority.

    Compute, sovereignty and access

    Compute capacity appears only with its workload, precision and period context. There is no cross-hardware league table, and security detail stays protected.

      • Hardware category / generationProtected
      • Residency, control, support, and operationsProtected
      • Security attestationProtected

      Approvals, reporting and compliance

      Instruments, conditions, filings and reported compliance, with the issuing authority named.

      • Rezoning application from I-1A (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to allow Bulk Data Storage use within an existing commercial building, considered under the Broadway Plan (PC-SRC-101).

        not-assessed
        Issuing authority
        City of Vancouver
        Condition / commitment
        No rezoning approval has been granted. The application was referred to a public hearing on 2026-07-14, pulled from the 2026-07-23 public hearing agenda, and referred back to staff on 2026-07-21 for further public consultation, which the City states will not begin until after the election.
        Filing source
        111 E 5th Ave rezoning applicationPC-SRC-101
        Review status
        verified
      • Decommissioning obligation / securityProtected

      Commitments versus delivered performance

      A commitment is not delivered performance. Targets and actuals sit side by side, and a missing actual stays visibly unreported.

        Material changes and version history

        Corrections and revisions append history instead of overwriting it. Superseded values stay on the record.

        • Record nature

          initial-record

          became real-public-record on 2026-08-25, recorded 2026-08-25.

          Record
          PC-FAC-001
          Reason and review
          First entry of this record from public sources; staged for steward review and fairness contact, not indexed.

        • Value state

          lifecycle-change

          reported became superseded on 2026-07-21, recorded 2026-08-25.

          Record
          PC-MS-004
          Reason and review
          The 2026-07-23 public hearing was pulled from the agenda and the application was referred back to staff on 2026-07-21. The planned milestone is superseded and retained rather than deleted.

        Sources and verification

        Every value on this page traces to one of these sources, each with its verification status, effective period and review dates.