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Keith R. Ballantyne
1184. Fraser Avenue
Port Coquitlam, B.C.
June 5, 1980 .

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JUN 2 3 1980

The Mayor and Municipal
Council of the Corporation
of the City of Port Coquitlam

Dear Sirs:

If we are to maintain a reasonable quality of life
in the North East Sector and the Dewdney Allouette Region

of the Lower Mainland, efficient transportation is a

prerequisite consideration in control and direction of
population growth.

The draft plan for the Lower Mainland recognizes
this requirement while also proposing a shift in the.
balance of population from South to North of the Fraser
River onto more marginal land and thus preserve agriculture
from increasing encroachment.

Even without the proposals outlined in the draft
report, increasing restriction.on urbanization of
agricultural land will undoubtably bring about the
same population shift.

Already the Lougheed Highway is at capacity and
the Dewdney Allouette. expressway is still some years
away, implementation of which would help that Region
(with reservations to increasing energy costs) but
would undoubtably impose more problems west of the

-Pitt River.

The only solution to cater for both short and long
term requirements is implementation of railway service
on the C.P.R. tracks, yet this service has been denied
so far on the basis of insufficient population.

We have in this area a marvellous opportunity to
produce a liveable region with little comparison
elsewhere on any continent.

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