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Kensington-Cedar Cottage - Cityplan Meeting Minutes
Minutes from March 1, 2000 Meeting
In attendance:
Anne Roberts (chair), Uli Rasehorn, Terry Walton, Greg Brown, Barb
Wright, Michael White, Ken Baker, Stan Jang (recorder)
Traffic Calming:
- Windsor at Dickens Elementary school: traffic calming project is about 48th in the list of
projects
- therefore it probably won't get done til late next year
- to try to get this done sooner, we'll push for the city to integrate Windsor as a bikeway as soon as possible
Kingscrest: (i.e. old Safeway)
- Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church wants to build a new church on the southwest part of the site
- About 800 people from all over the lower mainland would go there on Sunday's and Wednesday's
- a sub-group met with them, and encouraged the architect and the church committee to develop
housing, senior care facilities, day care facilities, etc. in addition to the church
- church and architect will consider this
- the city is planning to undertake neighbourhood centre planning for the area early next year
- in the meantime, Michael is drafting an interim policy so that non pedestrian friendly uses on street frontages in the neighbourhood centre are not viewed positively by the City
- Anne would like to ask the city council to do this now
Traffic Signals:
- we can give the city a list of pedestrian lights for dangerous
intersections for consideration ($ for additional signals has been allocated based on the Vision)
- the city won't install these additional signals until an arterials engineer is hired
AGM:
- Michael brought a sample brochure that would be distributed to households
- advertising and translation needs to be addressed
- Anne to follow up with Michael/Susan
Community Developer:
- need to hire this person to do:
- liaise between community groups
- reach out to people
- inform people
- take on projects important to this community such as:
- reducing car use to schools
- traffic calming
reach out to ethic community
- where would this person work out of?
- Terry offered KCC
- full time position hired through the city is one option
Website:
- the information that is on the KCC Community Page is useful so the Committee doesn't see the usefulness of developing their own page
- the Committee minutes and meeting agendas should be placed on the KCC Community Page
Billboards:
- how do we get rid of them
- Michael passed out an article from Dunbar residents association
- Anne to write a letter to Pat Johnston at C of V
Traffic Calming at Selkirk:
- there is a lot of excitement at the school about reclaiming the streets
- there are plans to add benches along 22nd along the school, an archway welcoming people to
the school (visible from Commercial approaching 22nd), students' artwork on the sidewalks
Welwyn RowHouse:
- at the city yard between 22nd and 20th
- in the Vision, there was a proposal to build modern high-density
housing
- this project seems dead, let's try to get it restarted
- Michael to report back
Skytrain:
- we are opposed to a choice that was made in the latest plans for the station in the cut
- it includes a large platform of concrete just east of the station to house some piece of machinery
- the architects had other options, but this is what the province chose
- Barb to report back
Concrete medians:
- on Victoria Dr at the new London Drugs, and on Victoria Dr at the
Canada Trust (on Kingsway), there is a lot of traffic crossing the solid yellow lines doing left turns
- the city is considering placing concrete medians to prevent this
- the Committee supports this, but would like the City to investigate more attractive materials and / or designs
- Michael to follow-up
Next meeting: Thursday, March 30
AGM: April 27
Regular meetings will be the first Thursday of each month beginning
in May.
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