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Advisory Planning Commission Meeting- Mar. 15/2016 6:30pm

The following application will be reviewed at the Tuesday, March 15,2016 Advisory Planning Commission meeting at 6:30pm

For further details please refer to the Advisory Planning Commission meeting details.

The Urban Forest Management Strategy includes a new tree bylaw that protects and regulates the removal of trees on private and City-owned land. For more information and complete outline of the bylaws visit

http://www.newwestcity.ca/treepermit

The QPRA has asked the city for an update on the tree removal at 321 & 323 Fifth St. and we received the following response:

City bylaw enforcement has advised that the developer of the site submitted a survey that showed the location of the centre of the tree and noted the size of the tree but it showed the tree totally on private property. On December 16th the City commissioned an independent survey to determine ownership of the tree. The survey showed that the edge of the tree was over the front property line onto City property by three inches. Since the tree was originally planted on private property and then grew a bit onto the City property, it was determined that the City had no viable claim to ownership of the tree that would stand up in any enforcement procedure. At this time the City does not contemplate taking any action on the cutting of the tree.

Heritage, fundraiser and retail therapy…Combine the three and you get Home for the Holidays! Presented by the Queens Park Healthcare Volunteer Society and supported by the New Westminster Heritage Preservation Society.

Visit five lovely heritage homes all adorned in festive Christmas splendour and aglow in seasonal brilliance while enjoying some retail therapy all for a good cause.

Sunday Dec. 6th 4:30 –7:30.

All proceeds benefit Queen’s Park Care Centre. Items from QUINTESSENTIAL, The Gift Shop at QPCC, will be available for sale at several homes.

Tickets are $20 and available online at www.qphf.org or at several locations including Royal City Colours, Brick and Mortar Living, Champagne Taste and Cadeaux Gifts and Home Embellishments.

Queen’s Park Healthcare Volunteer Society fundraises for Queen’s Park Care Centre, residential and short-stay facility in New Westminster that also houses the Adult Day Program and is co-located with William Rudd House—a 12- bed community based residence for young persons with deteriorating physical disease. ALL proceeds of this event will go the Foundation to help fund the extras that provide quality of life…eg blanket warmers, garden furniture and beauty salon items.

Contact info: Colleen McDonald, Event Lead. 604 341-1214. 604 526-4300.

It’s time to update our Official Community Plan (OCP) and the City needs your help! The revised OCP will provide a renewed vision for New Westminster to the year 2041. Your input will help shape the OCP and the future of OUR CITY.

NEW! OUR CITY WORKSHOP: A Community Conversation on Housing

What kinds of housing are best suited in your neighbourhood? Where in your neighbourhood should higher density housing be located to support services and amenities? How can each neighbourhood include different kinds of housing so people have options?

These are the kinds of questions the city will be exploring in the OUR CITY housing workshop on November 7th.

Date: Saturday, November 7
Time: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (Registration starts at 8:30 am)
Place: Anvil Centre Theatre, 777 Columbia Street

RSVP if you are interested in attending the Saturday, November 7 event. The workshop is free and includes lunch, but registration is required.

CLICK HERE to go to the city web site where you can find out more and register to attend the workshop.

Hi Everyone!  A reminder that the QPRA will hold it’s Annual General Meeting on Sunday, November 8th, 2015 at Centennial Lodge in Queen’s Park from 2pm to 4 pm.  Agenda as follows:

Agenda

Date:               Sunday, November 8^th, 2015

Time:               2PM – 4PM

Place:               Centennial Lodge, Queens Park

Agenda

• Call to order
• Call for additions to the Agenda
• Membership Drive
• Routine AGM Agenda:
  • Election of directors
  • Finance Report
  • Traffic Report
  • Policing Report
• Queens Park Heritage Working Group (“QPHWG”)
  • Presentation on the WG’s recommendation to council
  • Options
    • Laneway Housing connected to an HRA
    • Infill housing connected to an HRA
    • Carriage housing
    • Razing heritage houses
  • Q&A
• 205 Clinton Place HRA
• OCP Status Update
• Urban Academy Proposal Update

You are encouraged to arrive early. Refreshments will be served.  We hope to see you there!

Best Regards,

Berril Perks

President

QPRA

Date:         Sunday, September 27, 2015

Time:        2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Location:  Centennial Lodge in Queen’s Park

The format of the meeting, expected to take 90 minutes, will be as follows:

• Moderator (Mark Fox) welcome and introduction                         1 minute
• Candidates’ opening remarks in random order[1]                        3 minutes each
• Rebuttal/response if desired [2]                                                   1 minute each
• Question from QPRA Executive:                                                  2 minutes each

What measures does your party propose to engage young adults (the next “middle class”) to give them hope for the future regarding affordable education, job creation and entry into the housing market? (Responses should be both national and riding specific.)

• Rebuttal/Response                                                       1 minute each
• Question from QPRA Executive:                                   2 minutes each

The federal budget is currently balanced. Do you believe this is sustainable in light of recent economic changes nationally and globally? What would your party do to keep our economy healthy while meeting the needs of all Canadians?

• Rebuttal/response                                         1 minute each
• Audience “directed” question[3]                     2 minutes each
• “Hat Round”[4] audience questions               1 minute each
• Rebuttal/response                                        30 seconds each
• “Hat round” audience questions                     1 minute each
• Rebuttal/response                                        30 seconds each
• “Hat round” audience questions                     1 minute each
• Rebuttal/response                                        30 seconds each
• Closing remarks                                             3 minutes each

We look forward to seeing you there!

Urban Academy has re-submitted a revised application for and OCP amendment and rezoning for their existing site, including the Manitoba site.

The process for Council consideration of development applications has changed. The UA application will first go to the Land Use and Planning Committee next Monday at 12 (noon). The agenda for this committee will be posted later this afternoon in the usual spot on the City’s website. The LUPC is a Council standing committee and includes three Councilors and the Mayor as Chair. The mandate of the LUPC is to make recommendations to Council on planning and land use matters.

Next Monday, the Committee will consider a staff report that introduces the project. The applicant (architect) will present the plans. Considering the history of the project, the City staff recommendation for the LUPC at this meeting is to obtain comments from the LUPC, and importantly to invite neighbourhood residents to a 30 minute delegation session at the next meeting of the LUPC. This time has been set aside (October 5, 2015 12-12:30) to provide comments directly to the committee.

The report is now posted in the Committee agendas if you wish to look at the plans:

http://www.newwestcity.ca/council_minutes/0914_15/Public_Meeting_LandUseandPlanningCommittee_LUPC-1.2015.pdf

The LUPC will not make a recommendation to Council until after they hear from the residents. The LUPC can ultimately recommend that the project goes ahead to the normal approvals process, go ahead with conditions, or that it not go ahead. The final decision on the application must come from Council.

Meetings of the LUPC are open to the public, so you are welcome to attend next Monday’s meeting at noon to listen to the deliberations.

Please note that in the event that this application moves forward, there will be other opportunities for consultation.  Should the LUPC direct staff to move forward with this application, the following
process for an OCP amendment and Rezoning Application would be undertaken, which
includes:

1. LUPC Meeting to provide area residents an opportunity to appear as delegations
   and to respond to latest proposed concept;
2. LUPC Report to Council regarding applications and revised development
   proposal;
3. First Open house;
4. Advisory Planning Commission review of the land use considerations;
5. Update report to the LUPC and Council (including a summary of feedback
   received to date);
6. Second open house;
7. New Westminster Design Panel review of revised site design;
8. Second Advisory Planning Commission Meeting;
9. Preparation of OCP amendment and Rezoning amendment bylaw;
10. Report to Council on Section 879 of the Local Government Act regarding
    consultation for the OCP amendment;
11. Report to Council for first and second readings of the OCP amendment and
    Rezoning amendment Bylaws;
12. Public hearing related to the proposed OCP amendment and Rezoning
    Amendment bylaws and consideration of third reading;
13. Final adoption of OCP amendment bylaw.