THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

ITEM IL

Re: Frontape Road Access to Karamanolis Restaurant

Council will reca]1 that on instructions from our solicitor
last year, we did issue a Building Permit for the Karamanolis property
at 1640 Lougheed Highway. ‘This permit included the provision that
permanent access must be taken off the frontage road but, since that
road was not in existence at the time the permit was issued, temporary
access was allowed from Angelo Avenue. It was the opinion of our
solicitor that we would be required to extend the frontage road to the
property in question at our own cost if we wished to deny access from
Angelo Avenue. In other words, we could not leave him without an
access to the street system.

The cost of extending the frontage road to full standards is
estimated to be about $4,000. The Committee felt that the City should
not spend public money to extend a road required by a developer. As
there is a dirt road extension of the frontage road to the property
which is in use now, the Committee felt that this road would serve the
purpose of providing access to the street system: and complete all our
obligations.

This is therefore a request for conformation from Council that
this approach ‘s acceptable and that we can take action to close off any
present or future access to Angelo Avenue.

ITEM III

Re: Ditch at 3696 Hamilton

This item was reconsidered by the Committee after having a
survey of the ditch elevations. The survey showed that it is not
possible to raise the ditch substantially without cutting off drainage
from a catch basin situated in the back corner of 3653 St. Thomas.
This drain is at virtually the same elevation as the outlet from the
ditch. There are also other properties in the middle of the block
that depend on the ditch for drainage of the back yards.

Several alternatives were discussed including the complete
closure of the ditch using old watermain pipe being removed from
Kingsway. To be effective in draining the low properties, such a
ditch closure would require catch basins to be installed at all the
low properties. The Committee would be concerned about the precedent