THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM ¢ Uj N C
| JAN 2 .

MEKO U 1986

B. Kirk, DATE: January 17,:1986.
City Administrator.

TO:
FROM: W. Brown,
Director of Planning.

SUBJECT: Church Rezoning R24/85
2191 Prairie Avenue.

RECOMMENDATION :

That City Council direct the Clerk's Office to. prepare a. by-law to rezone
Lot 47, D.L. 465, Plan 26362 NWLD from RS-1 to P-2.

BACKGROUND:

The rationale for suggesting this property be used for a church is, that

the site is located at a busy corner and is not a good residential location.
In addition, the property would not be approved for rezoning to a commercial
use because it would compete with established commercial centres. A church
is viewed as the least problematic development that could be located on the

property.

The site size is approximately 1200 square metres and could accommodate three
small house lots or a single duplex. However, as mentioned above the property

is located at a busy corner. Due to that it has not attracted interest of a
residential builder.

A week day traffic count taken along Prairie Avenue near the site counted 9660
vehicles between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

The use of the property that would provide the greatest return is a service

station or other commercial use. But locating a commercial use at this location
would take away from the existing commercial nodes of Flint Street and Coast
Meridian Road as well as the existing small neighbourhood stores located along
Prairie Avenue. A Community Plan policy is to direct new business to existing
commercial nodes.

A question raised by City Council was to compare this application to the large
United Church west of Shaughnessy Street at.Prairie Avanue. The United Church
has about 75 formal parking stalls and has an attendance of around 250 people.
The proposed church building has a maximum capacity of about 100 peuple and
provides 27 parking stalls. The two churches will have the similar ratio of
attendance to parking when the proposed church building reaches its maximun
capacity. The number of parking stalls to be provided at the proposed church
exceed the City's requirements. At tha United Church, the number of square
feet of public assembly space is unknown so the parking requirements can not

be calculated. y

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