January 13th, 1975

using such a facility for office purposes if closure of more schools is

planned. “is Worship the Mayor pointed out that Mr. A.C.L. Kelly,

Chairman of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, would be in attendance

at the Council Committee meeting later this evening, and suggested that
the matter be further discussed at that time.
REPORTS:

From Mayor J.M. Campbell, January 9th, 1975, reporting on the
January 8th, 1975 Greater Vancouver Regional District Board meeting,
advising that Mr. Allan Kelly was voted Chairman with Mayor Muni Evers
as Deputy Chairman, and stating that he was pleased to have been appointed
to the Housing and Planning Committees as he believed these are the two
that are the most important to Port Coquitlam.

From the Planning & Zoning Committee, January 8th, 1974, advising that
Application R#27/74 to rezone a 25,000 square toot site at the corner of
Sefton Street and Salisbury Avenue, legally described as the Ws of Rem.
of Lot K, D.L. 479, Group 1, Plan 6825, from RM-1 (Low-Density Apartment
Residential) to P-1 (Civic Institutional) to permit the development of a
Postal Letter Carriers' Depot is, in the opinion of the Committee,
compatible with tha existing Commercial use in the area and is within
the bounds designated by the Phased Development Plan for Commercial use,
and recommending that the subject rezoning be approved in principle
subject to design and engineering details to be worked out to standards
acceptable to the Planning and Engineering Departments.

A representative was in attendance on behalf of the Federal Government,
and he explained that the present Federal Post Office building on McAllister
is overcrowded; therefore, it is proposed to establish a second facility
on Coast Meridian Road North of Prairie Avenue in order to provide the
best possible service to Port Coquitlam now and in the future. Aiderman
Ranger inquired how many parking spaces would be provided for the public,
and the representative advised that it was aniticpated those presently

designated at the shopping centre would be used as the parking spaces at

the proposed depot would be required for mail mobiles. The City Engineer

stated that the Federal Department of Public Works had been advised that
the paving of Salisbury from Coast Meridian Road to Sefton Street would
be a requirement of the City in approving the project, and Ald2rman
Traboulay suggested that the Department should be required to pave

Sefton Street also. Alderman Traboulay inquired as to the structural

/5.

Mayor
Campbell re
Jan.8/75
GVRD Board
meeting

Plan.& Zon.

Comm.-Appln.
#27/74