October 6th, 1975

Notice of Meeting to be neld at the Airport Inn, Richmond, on October

9th, 1975 at 6:30 p.m. Mayor Campbell and Aldermen Laking and Ranger

indicated they would be attending the meeting.
REPORTS:

fPlan.& Zon.Comm. From the Planning & Zoning Committee, October 2nd, 1975, advising

re Oxbow Housing

Project that at its October 2nd, 1975 meeting the Chairman reported verbally on
the discussion of the Oxbow Housing Project at the Coquitlam Advisory
Planning Commission meeting of October 1st to which he had been invited,
and recommending that the District of Coquitlam be requested to hold the
future Public Hearing on the subject project in Port Coquitlam so that
the residents may have the opportunity to be informed of the effects
thereof on their community.

His Worship the Mayor then welcomed the City's two School Trustees,

Mrs. M.M. Smith and Mrs. D.F. Coutts, who were in attendance this evening
to speak on the proposed project. Alderman Thompson then reviewed the
Oxbow housing proposal and referred to the provlem of school accommodation,
Mrs. Smith referred to Page 13 of the report on school accommodation,
and advised that the proposed Hastings Junior Elementary School mentioned
therein is incorrect and should be changed to Hastings Junior Secondary
School. Mrs. Smith further advised that the figures for capacity the
Board of Education finds acceptable are not what the School Board finds
acceptable as actual operating figures, and mentioned that the Board
does not look at an area for schooling unless it is certain development
will go ahead. Mrs. Coutts referred to a letter from the School Board
to the District of Coquitlam's Planner tentatively agreeing to purchase
of a site and construction of another school building; however, Mrs.
Smith pointed out that to date no site is available for purchase by the
Board, and that permission would have to be obtained from Victoria to
build another school. Alderman Laking stated his concern that students
would have to be bussed from the development to the proposed Hastings
Junior Secondary School; however, Alderman Thompson pointed out that if
the David Road or Lincoln Avenue crossing of the Coquitlam River took
place, transportation to schools would not be so difficult, but both
those items are farther in the future than the present estimate of
thirty months for completion of the Oxbow project. Mayor Campbell
stated his concern that the site is so isolated, particularly for children

under the age of 10 in attending schools outside the development.