Mayor Laking and the Port Coquitlam City Council F.E. Peters, City Engineer L. Lee, City Planner Techram Securities Ltd. John J. McCormack, Architect The Press Lawrence and Julie Schmidt 3468 Lancaster St.; Port Coquitlam Subject: By-law No. 1723 Date: Feb. 29, 1980 We strongly oppose the proposed movement of the Techram office tower from the S.E. corner as previously agreed upon by residents, developer, and municipal council. When a developer expects to profit by asking city council to rezone a piece of residential land to C.D., the ons should be placed upon that developer to come up with a plan that will inconvenience the life styles of the minimum number of people living adjacent to it. Instead, they have chosen a site for the tower which will interfere with the privacy, view, and sunlight of the greatest possible number of people. Please refer to the enclosed map for confirmation. Note that the residents of Lanster, Raleigh, Kitchener, Clayton, Tuoey and Murchie all will be staring into the tower, and worse yet, the tennants of the tower will be looking into all of our front yards, back yards, windows; balconies, pools, etc. etc. Privacy will become a thing of the past and we will become as fish in a gold fish bowl. The gardens and greenhouses of ourselves and our neighbours “will suddenly be subjected to a shortened day as the shadow of the tower causes an early afternoon sunset. Plants require a minimum number of hours of sunlight per day to mature properly. In our yard we have apple, plum, cherry, pear and walnut trees, grapevines, raspberries, strawberries, loganberries, blackberries, blueberries, red and black currents, rhubarb plus a full annual vegetable garden, and numerous ornamental plants. Our garden is impertant to us and we don't want to see it compromised. Our house was planned as a passive solar unit. The overhang and window exposure is such that the hot overhead sun of summer is kept out while the winter sun is let in to the maximum. We are able to turn the