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The latest incarnation of the Grandview-Woodland community plan calls for a mixed-use development that would rise between four to nine storeys at Commercial and Venables.

That is three storeys fewer than the Kettle Friendship Society and Boffo Properties have proposed for the tower on the site, which would have include 30 social housing and 150 to 200 market condos.

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The tower has been whittled down after fierce opposition in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, where a No Venables Tower petition has gathered 4,426 signatures. But nine storeys proposed by the city doesn’t sit well with the Kettle’s Nancy Keough, who said that size won’t work without a subsidy.

“We need 12 storeys in the density to make the project self-sustaining,” she said. “(That would) give us the space we need to run our community services and drop-in, and to get 30 affordable housing units. If we can get the extra density and those three extra floors that’s added to the draft plan, then we can build our project.”