City council approved today rezoning for a nine-storey mixed-use building in Chinatown.
The 75-unit structure will include a ground-level restaurant and supermarket as well as upper-level residential apartments. Eighty-seven parking spaces are proposed over three levels of underground parking.
The property will stretch across two lots, 770 Somerset St. W. and 13 Lebreton St. N.
The building’s proposed height is taller than what is permitted in the zoning bylaw. But, according to a report to council, extra height may be considered as the location is both close to a rapid transit station and the mixed-use development enhances “the traditional mainstreet character of Somerset Street.”