One vote beats Co

A proposal for a cooperative
mobile home subdivision wag
defeated by one vote at
Coquitlam council Monday
night, but the issue will still be
taken to yet another public
hearing.

The “Cooperative Mobile

Homeowners’ Association of *.

B.C. proposed the develop-
ment for property at Dewdney
Trunk Road and Irvine St, in
Coquitlam.

“T don't like to put them to
the expense of drawing up a
land use contract without the
full support of council," exe
Plained Ald. Roy Stibbs, whe
cast one ‘of the deciding votes
Gefeating it,

He previously had been In
favor of the project, but said
he now was not gure that the
type.of mobile home allowed

in the development could be
controlled,

The final vote by council
Was a tic broken by the vote of
Mayor Jim Tonn, who said he
simply did not agree with the
site chosen for it “from the
planning puint of view”,

“T'd like te point out that I'm
not a planner,” added Tonn,
“but I think it should go back
to the people who live in the
area before the cooperative
association goes to all the

expense of a land use con:
tract.”

Representing the
cooperative, George Weltz
noted he did not see how a
public meeting could be of any
use when council would not
first authorize the plans to be
drawn up.

Municipal planner Don
Buchanan had earlier said the
mobile home subdivision
could fit in with other

development in the area if the
right restrictions were spelled
cut in a land use contract,

Tonn’s suggestion was later
agreed te by council members
and the cooperative's proposal
will be heard at a public
meeting within the next two
weeks,

.. This would mean the whole
issue would come before
council again for approval for
a land use contract to be

quitlam mobile home

drawn up allowing a mobile
home subdivision.

Following ihe setting out of
a contract, the proposal would
go back to a public hearing,
and then back to council for
final approval or rejection.

Mr. Weltz explained in a
brief to council that a mobile
home becomes a modular
home when affixed to a per-
manent foundation. He also
noted the association was
planning larger lots than
allowed for in the Strata Titles
Act — which specifies the size
of the home itself, ,

Ald. Len Bewley pointed out
that at_a previous public.
hearing, residents had ex.
pressed concern about in-
creased density in the area,
Mr. Weltz replied that with
large lots and estimates from
recent studies (the average -

plan.

occupancy for a home of this
type is 2.8 people in the Lower
Mainland), the development
would not have a high density.

Following a question from
Ald. Stibbs, Mr. Weltz said 8 --
per cent of the members of the
cooperative are presently
residents of Coquitlam.

Ald. Jack Gilmore, after
listing the reasons he is in
favor of the development said
he also is opposed because he
is not sure this is the tight use.
for the. piece of land in
question.

Following two hours of
debate, Aldermen Gilmore,
Bewley and Stibbs voted
against allowing a land use
contract to be entered into,
with Mayor Tonn Joining in to
defeat the development, at
least temporarily,