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Report from the Environmental Sub Committee and the Public Works Committee FEB 9G 1973

The following is a joint report from the Environmental Sub Comnittee and the
Public Works Committee in connection with the Revised Recommendations Regarding
Floodplain and Floodproofing Policies, The Committees met in the Council
Chambers of the City Hall, Thursday, February 22, 1973. Present were Chairman
Alderman Meyer; Alderman Len Traboulay; V.G. Borch, P.Eng., City Engineer and

L.D. Pollock, City Administrator.

Floodplain and Floodproofing Policies

The Committees considered the revised recommendations regarding floodplain and

floodproofing policies that are presently being discussed by the Greater Vancouver

Regional District.

The Committees recommend as follows:

G.V.R.D. Recommendations ‘ Committees' Recommendations

1. That the GVRD recognize the floodplain 1. This item be endorsed with the

policies of the Official Regional Plan and additional recommendaticn that the
the Fraser River Flood Control Programs as G.V.R.D. review the floodplain lines
important but incomplete means for dealing presently in effect.

with the flood risks in the Lower Fraser

Valley.

2. That nevertheless the G.V.R.D. re-affirm 2. Committee endorses this statement.
present floodplain and floodproofing policies

of the Official Regional Plan because they

are an instrument to:

(a) reduce flood risk,

(b) maintain farmland, and

(c) reduce urban sprawl

3. That the G.V.R.D. seek however to 3.
improve flood risk legislation and programs
which will take account of situations not
covered by present policies or programs,

such as:

(4) providing floodproofing regulations, (i) Endorsed
improved dyking or other protection for

existing designated URBAN and INDUSTRIAL

AREAS of the Official Regional Pian which

are presently exempt from the flocdproofing
policy.

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