em COUNCIL

AUG 27 1978

Mayor and Council . August 24th, 1979

L.D. Pollock
City Administrator

Re: Land Exchanges ~ Mary Hill Ey-pass Right-of-Way

In June, I briefed Council In Committee on a request from the Department
‘ of Highways for some land acquisition from the City for their right-of-way for

the Mary Hill By-pass. I suggested that we incorporate some land exchanges that
would help resolve the City's need for land and right-of-ways for our dyking
project. There are two areas involved, one is at the bottom end of Broadway
involving lands owned by B.C. Hydro and Canadian Forest Products, The other

area is at the east end of Kingsway and involves land owned by Tri-Line Freight.

Canadian Forest Products Land

Plan. 1 attached show land at the south end of Broadway and the location
of the Mary Hill By-pass. You will note that the bulk of the land south of the
Mary Hill By-pass is owned by Canadian Forest Products and there is land owned
by the City and B.C. Hydro, The parcel of land marked "Remainder of C' ig owned
by Canadian Forest Products and in addition to the portion required for road
right-of-way, the City requires a portion of this land for a dyke pump house
station and for a drainage course leading to the pump house. The Department of
Highways have proposed some land exchanges that would permit obtaining the By—-pass
right-of-way and the City’s land requirements for drainage ditches and the pump
house location. The exchanges would require that the City close and abandon the
portion of Broadway, south of the By~pass, as well as the portion of Harbour Street
lying east of the By-pass, a portion of Arova Avenue and a small portion of road.
allowance south of the By-pass, right adjacent to the Remainder of Lot C. The
Department of Highways have purchased the B.C. Hydro lands and the exchange would
therefore involve Canadian Forest Products and the City conveying to the Province
the land required for the By-pass right-of-way. A new parcel created next to the
By-pass would be transferred to Canadian Forest Products in exchange for lands
they have given up and the Province would convey to the City the B.C. Hydro lands
in exchange for the road allowances that the City has given up. In total, from
figures given to me by the Department of Highways, Canadian Forest Products would
give up approximately 6.82 acres and receive in exchange 7.69 acres. (The Department
of Highways ommitted one small right-of-way required by the City and therefore the
exchange with CanFor should amount to about’ equal land area.) The City is giving
up about 10.5 acres and receiving in exchange approximately 8.4 acres. For the
difference of 2 acres, the Department of Highways has agreed to relocate the
meandering drainage ditch that extends from Broadway down to the new pump station
and relocate this ditch along side of the Mary Hill By-pass to make the resulting
Jand areas more usable. The cost of the construction of this drainage ditch is
approximately $40,00C. and the value of the land is approximately $20,000. per
acre, or $40,000. for the 2 acres, therefore it is about an equal exchange.