ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

TO:

Vancouver City Council

FROM:

Street Naming Committee

SUBJECT:

Renaming a Portion of Beach Avenue to Beach Crescent

 

RECOMMENDATION

COUNCIL POLICY

Council uses the Street Name By-Law, No. 4954, to name and regulate public roads in the City of Vancouver. The Street Naming Committee, a staff team, is chaired by the City Clerk, and comprised of the City Surveyor, representatives of the Planning, Legal Services, Permits & Licenses, and Fire & Rescue Services Departments. The Committee is responsible for the management of a consistent, integrated and duplication-free street name system.

PURPOSE

This report seeks Council approval for renaming the portion of Beach Avenue that runs southeast from Granville Street to and beyond Homer Street as Beach Crescent. (See attached plan.)

DISCUSSION

The Street Naming Committee has noted that the street currently named Beach Avenue for its whole length will take on markedly different character on either side of the Granville Bridge. That portion running westward of the bridge will continue in its present function as a traffic-bearing throughway, while the portion running eastward from the bridge will come to serve as a community street, an axis for a newly-developing neighbourhood beside False Creek.

The Street Naming Committee believes that the substantially differing functions of the street should be recognized in its naming. For the eastern portion, retention of the name, Beach, allows for the extension of the existing grid of street names, while the unusual shape of the street makes appropriate the full name, Beach Crescent, to distinguish the neighbourhood street from the throughway.

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