THE CORPORATION GF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM
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In addition to the offsite servicing costs, the
development on the north side would be paying approximately
$122,000.00 in highway facilities development cost charges.

Techram has said that their servicing costs exceed
their budget by about $200,000.00 and would like to obtain
some relief from the City. One possible area of relief would
be in the cost of constructing Westwood Street which is one of
the roads included in the development cost charge by-law. As
they are already paying development cost charges, it would be
reasonable to refund a portion of these cost charges to pay
for the construction of Westwood Street. This would be an
amount of about $28,000.00. The only other possibility of
relief would come in either cost-sharing with the storm sewer
Or reducing the storm sewer requirements.

There would seem te be no justification at all for
the City sharing in the cost of the storm sewer since the
route chosen follows the Lougheed Highway and would provide
no benefit to any City streets. Even if a more beneficial
route were chosen, it would cost more and the City would not
have any money for its shared this time. On the other hand,
the possibility of reducing the drainage requirements does
exist assuming that Council and the Fisheries Department would
be willing to allow the discharge of their storm sewer into
Maple Creek. Some of the former runoff into Maple Creek has
been diverted to the Coquitlam River by the District of Coquitlam
and therefore some spare capacity might exist in Maple Creek.
There are some restrictions to flow downstream, in particular,
the old wooden culvert under Kingsway seems to be badly under-
sized in comparison to the rest of the culverts. It would
probably be cheaper for the developer to improve these down-
stream bottlenecks on Maple Creek rather than to carry the
storm sewer all the way to the Coquitlam River. If this approach
would be acceptabe to Council it would be up to the developer's
engineer to prove that it is feasible and to obtain the approvals
of the Fisheries Department.

The Committee did not make a recommendation on the
changes to the storm sewer requirement but did recommend that
the developer obtain relief from the construction of Westwood
Street through the development cost charges.

ITEM IIT

Re: Access to Hagel Trembath School

The Public Works Committee discussed the request from
Mrs. G.L. Bowen of 1442 Delia Drive to have the access road to
tha Hazel Trembath School paved and lighted. Information was
also received from the School Board Maintenance Superintendent
suggesting that the School Board might be interosted in assisting

in the paving.
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