THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT. COQUITLAM

would be that if the drainage question is still not resolved
by the time the building is completed, Council would be under
extreme pressure to provide a water connection in order to
allow the building to be occupied.

The Public Works Committee is prepared to recommend
to Council that the CPR be requested to provide one half of
the pumping facility for the high level drainage system and
that the building permit not be held up et this time.

ITEM VIL

Re: Cancellation of Roadway Lease from CPR

A portion of the CPR property adjacent to Kingsway
Avenue between the river bridge and the Shaughnessy Street
underpass has been leased from the CPR since 1923. Initially
the lease rate was $1.00 per year. This rate increased in
1969 and again in 1973 and the current proposed rate is quoted
at $250.00 per year. Sketch no. 5 shows the property in
question,

This property is currently used for occasional parking
and for B.C. Hydro poles. We have checked with B.C. Hydro and
they have already taken steps to obtain a right-of-way for their
poles. As we have no real need for this property ourselves and,
since in any case it will probably still be available for parking,
the Committee recommends that this lease be cancelled.

ITEM VIII

Re: Closure of the Kingsway Underpass

In conjunction with the construction of the Mary Hill
By-Pass, the Ministry of Highways has now requested formally
that we allow the Kingsway Underpass to be closed for a period
of nine consecutive days in order to reduce the construction
time of the new underpass. It is hoped that by doing this the
overall disruption to traffic can be shortened. The Committee
considered that a lot of the traffic using this route is traffic
short-cutting through’ the City and that most of the trucking
heading for the industrial area cannot use the underpass in any
case because of its low height. The Committee therefore recommends
that this complete closure be allowed subject to the contractor
providing adequate advance signing and detour signing.

In conjunction with the underpass reconstruction,

Council will recall that we are constructing a new section of
watermain in order to allow the existing 12-inch watermain in
the underpass to be abandoned. It appears that our timing may
be too late to'’allow the contractor to complete the underpass

in the good weather and therefore Highways ms also asked whether
we would consider allowing the watermain to be cut off without
the new watermain being completed. That watermain basically

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