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this (event) will be greatly appreciated."

Mr. Tonn's letter was included in the Agenda documentation of
Port Coquitlam City Council's March 3 public meeting, attended by some
20 members of the public, and there it and any further publicity from
Port Coquitlam City Council seems to have stopped.

On Tuesday, March 11, Port Coquitlam City Council, at a meeting of
the Planning and Zoning Committee, not held on a regular, Monday public
meeting night, voted 4-3, with Mr. Laking deciding, to ask GYRD to change
325 acres of present agricultural land, bounded by Lougheed Highway,

Dominion Avenue, to the north, and the Pitt River waterway, to an

industrial designation on the proposed new GVRD Plan for the Lower

Mainland. No notice that these discussions and decisions were going

to be taking place were ever made, it seems, to the general public
of Port Coquitlam or even to all. the residents on the streets
involved, to allow taxpayers’ comments, concerns, and contributions
to be registered. No public mention or notice was forthcoming, after
Council's very close, split vote on this issue, of residents' oppor-
tunity to appeal or comment on this at the GVRD*s public hearing,
March 25, 1980, as noted in Mr. Tonn's letter of February 22, 1980,
again not even to all the residents in and on the borders of these
325 acres in question. _—

By pure fluke, the fact that a neighbour had happened to attend
the March 3 City Council meeting and had seen Mr. Tonn's letter,
I iearned of what had transpired at this Committee meeting and of our
opportunity for appeal and the chance to express concern at the

GVRD's public hearing on the next Tuesday, March 25, 1980.