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