RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:

The Planning Department recommends that the following initiatives be taken
on each of the eight suggestions in question, within the approximate time
schedule noted.

1. Request to change the designation of the south side of Pitt
River Road between Shaughnessy Street and Mary Hill Road from
Single Family to Multi-Family.

The Livable Region Strategic Plan, under preparation by the GVRD,
anticipates a total of 24,000 housing units in Port Coquitlam by the year 2006
and 30,300 housing units by the year 2021. The saturation capacity for the
proposed Official Community Plan is 30,722 housing units.

These numbers indicate that there is no pressing reason tc expand the
Multi-Family areas in the City that justify the expansion of a Multi-Family
designation south of Pitt River Road.

The property owners are requesting an "Apartment" designation to allow for
three to four storey buildings; all other areas south of Pitt River Road with
Multi-Family designation permit only townhouse development.

A further consideration is that during the public participation process,
at or prior to, the Public Hearing, petitions with similar strength were
received, both in opposition and in support of the designation of these lands
for some form of Multi-Family.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

The Planning Department recommends that no action be taken by the
Municipality at this time. If the property owners irterested in developing
the land decide to do so, they may submit an application for development that
would include complete design drawings, and at that point, the issue could
again be reconsidered with public participation from all citizens.

Should an application not be received, then no action should be taken
until the next review of the Official Community Plan.

2. The request to designate the foot of Pitt River Road in the
"Marine Traditional" designation as "Park”™ to indicate
potential future access to the river.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

The Planning Department will proceed with a recommendation to Council to
act on this suggestion, immediately after adoption of the Official Community
Plan, and as part of a Council initiated Amendment Bylaw.

3. Reduce the amount of Commercially designated land in the
Northside Centre and increase the amount of Multi-Family land.

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