THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM C ¢ U N C | [

MEMORANDUM
APR 2 1 1986
TOU: BR. Kirk DATE: April 9, 1986
City Administrator
FROM: W.A. Brown
Director of Community Planning
SUBJECT: Street Name Policy ,

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RECOMMENDATION: That this report be used as a basis tor

formulating poticy about naming streets.
The proposed policy is in two parts:

Firstly, that developers be permitted to
select names for new streets in tneir
subdivision, subject to the following
conditions;

-consideration shall be given to naming
° streets after tong time residents of
the City

-the streets to be named are not
continuations of existing streets that
are already named

-the proposed names are not duplicates
or sound the same as other street names
in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam

-the proposed names are short and do not
include prefixes or suffixes

-the proposed names ara not slanderous,
lewd or contain innuendo

-the names shall foitow the context of
other street names in the vicinity

The second part of the policy is that the
City reserve the right to name streets when
the names proposed by developer are not in
Keeping with part one above and for ai!
arterial and collector streets and avenues.

Comments:

1. This policy is being proposed to provide a framework
within which City staff can expedite the street naming part of
the development approval process. As the system presently
operates, street names are apptied by a resolution of City
Council following approval of a plan of subdiviston. Street
naming is delayed until this point due to the potential tor
changes to the road pattern during review of the application.
A difficulty this raises is the developer is In a position to

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