Land Use Committee . .

Mar. 26. 1986

2.0 cont'd

Comment - The intent to provide a smal] commercial area with personal
services as a buffer between Coquitlam commercial uses on the west
and the residential area on the east is a reasonable solution for a
difficult area, hut the traffic impacts on the Westwood corridor need
to be examined carefully on an intermunicipal basis.

3.0 Transportation Network

3.2

3.3

3.1 General,

For the most part, the draft plan responds to the
need for intermunicipal continuity of the major street system.
However, certain links merit further examination.

Victoria Drive

Uraft Plan - Victoria Drive between Coast Meridian and Fremont
Street 7s shown as arterial and is consistent with the desig-
nation in the Northeast Coquitlam Draft Community Plan,

Comment = We note that in recent developments in the City,
Victoria Drive curb offsets and driveway accesses do not appear
to be in keeping with arterial standards,

Lincoln Avenue

Draft Plan = Lincoln Avenue is shown as an arterial between
Woodland and Hastings Street and between Shaughnessy Street and
Coast Meridian Road, but not the portion between Hastings and
Shaughnessy Streets. The Port Coquitlam Director of Commu nity
Planning has stated that it was deleted in that area because
Hastings Jr. Secondary School fronts onto Lincoln Avenue.

Comment - The Coquitiam Town Centre Community Plan shows Lincoln
Avenue as a continuous arterial, with a T-intersection at Ozada
Avenue. An alternative alignment would have Ozada make a
Sweeping curve to the east, to tie into a Lincoln Avenue crossing
of the Coquitlam River: under this alternative, the west leg of
Lincoln Avenue would tie in by means of a T-intersection, An
attached sketch shows these alternatives. In either case, it is
important that there be continuity of arterial routing on the
Lincoln Avenue corridor between Hastings and Shaughnessy Streets,
and it is recommended that the draft plan be amended to provide
such continuity.

Westwood Street

Draft = Westwood Street is shown as an arterial south of Lougheed
and as a local street north of Lougheed Highway.

Comment - Coquitlam jis treating Westwood as an arterial to
accommodate commercial uses in the area. With the continued
closure of Woodland Orive, the proposed neighbourhood ‘commercial
development in the Port Coquitlam Woodland triangle and the
commercial development anticipated in Coquitlam, continuity of
Westwood as an arterial street north of the Lougheed is essantial,

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