DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

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Objectives

The Official Community Plan policies fit together to make a strategy for guiding future development. That strategy is outlined in the four objectives for the plan.

The first objective to focus development in South Port

Coquitlam is a key element in the development strategy.

What this objective does is to focus development in a

gingle area so there will be sufficient resources and

activity to install desired public services such as roads, parks and flood protection.

The second objective is to clearly state that top pricrity for public investment is the industrial area. What this is intended to achieve is to guide future City Council budget delibritions and to advise private land owners and developers about the City's priorities for utility servicing.

The third objective js to provide the apartment staging scheme, and re-enforce the City's commercial districts. The apartment staging scheme is @ device to designate areas where apartments can be built and transition areas where they must wait. What the scheme does is to prevent leap~-frog development.

The fourth objzctive is a statement of philosophy, that the Gity will continue to strive towards better development and continue to take neighborhood considerations into account.

Urban Design Strategy

Within this objective the City has 4 series of specific urban degign qualities that are being sought fo: parts of the City.

Working towards creating a focal point of density and commercial activity node at Shaughnessy Street and Lougheed Highway to unite the north and south sides of Port Coquitlam.

Obtaining a high standard of architecture for development along Lougheed Highway and Mary Hill Bypass to convey 4 good image for Port Coquitlam.

Directing new residential development to the south side of the City so that improvements can be made to the Coquitlam River dyking as part of those developments.

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