Kensington-Cedar Cottage CityPlan Committee
Meeting Notes
Kensington-Cedar Cottage Community Wide Meeting
Thursday, September 11, 2003
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Trout Lake Community Centre
• Neighbourhood Festivals - Cathy Buckham
• The Wales Street Heritage Day Festival will
be held on Sunday, September 14 at Avalon Dairy from 12:00 - 4:00 . Residents
of KCC are welcome to attend.
• The deadline for the City's 'Celebration Grants' is September
15. For more information: www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/oca
• Community Festival in KCC?
(Kim Nulty)
• Elliot and Kim met earlier in early 2003 to
discuss the possibility of submitting an application for a Celebration
Grant, for a festival at Kingcrest Park, but didn't meet over the summer.
• Windsor Way Public Art (Peter Wohlwend)
• Test installation
of the Windsor Way Artway banners will take place later this month. Final
installation is scheduled for October 27th .
• Kingsway & Knight Development
(Cathy Buckham)
• Keith Hemphill, project architect for the site
at Kingsway & Knight (ex Safeway site), is still working on a development
application. He hopes to submit the application to the City soon.
• The KCC CityPlan Liaison Subcommittee, (Peter Wohlwend, Elliot
Neck, Heather Imrie and Barbara McGeough), would like to continue their
role as liaisons between the City, architect and the community through
the processing of this application. Cathy said she would contact staff
assigned to review the development application regarding Peter's request.
• Neighbourhood Centre Delivery Program (Kingsway
& Knight)
• Staff working on the Housing Plan spent part
of the summer developing an inventory of pre-1940 houses (750 total) in
the study area. They rated them according to seven 'character criteria'.
The inventory will help formulate a new zoning area.
• Staff and the Housing Area Working Group are working on options
that look at rowhouse housing and a new 'small house' kind of zone. Possible
locations have yet to be determined.
• The group anticipates sending out a survey on housing area
options in early 2004.
• MC-1 Zoning - East 18 - East 22nd (Cathy
Buckham)
• City Council approved amendments to the MC-1
and MC-2 Guidelines for Cedar Cottage to allow multiple dwellings to be
considered in the 34/3500 and 36/37/3800 blocks of Commercial Street in
Cedar Cottage. For more information see www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20030722/p1.htm
• Broadway & Commercial Guideway
Project
• Merchants from the Commercial Drive area met
to discuss the possibility of a 'collective parking lot' under the Skytrain
guideway, behind the commercial properties on the east side of Commercial
Drive at 11th Avenue.
• Collective parking is a lot owned jointly by local businesses
and the City. The City undertakes the maintenance and administration of
the lot on behalf of the businesses and costs are assessed to each property
annually.
• Local service providers (day care) are also interested in
the space under the guideway - for a 'tot lot' (play area for children).
• More discussion on this topic will happen through the public
consultation process for the reallocation of $208,000 for a community
amenity in the Broadway & Commercial area (see item #9).
• Designing a Public Process
for the Reallocation of $208,000 in Broadway & Commercial Area
• Cathy reminded the Committee about a recent
City Council motion where Council "affirmed its commitment that remaining
monies ($208,000) allocated by the Rapid Transit Project Office as a community
amenity to offset some of the impacts of the Skytrain station and the
Millennium Line be spent in the surrounding community. Council directed
staff to establish a collaborative community consultation process in the
community in the Broadway & Commercial area to determine within 6
months a plan to use the money."
• Concerns were raised about the future of the Cedar Cottage
Safety Office (ongoing funding); the possibility of inexperienced and
unknown groups coming forward and applying for this funding; notification
boundaries, etc.
• The Committee felt that more information was needed before
they could comment on a suggested approach to public consultation (e.g.
firm criteria for assessing proposals, projects undertaken by other communities
with RPTO funding (e.g. near stations in Burnaby , New West), etc.
• This item will be discussed again on Thursday, October 2.
• Kensington Community Centre
AGM
• AGM will be held on Wednesday, October 22 at
7:00 pm . All are welcome.
Next Meeting:
Thursday, October 2
7:00 pm
Trout Lake
Community Centre
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