Supports Item No. 3
P&E Committee Agenda
May 10, 2001

MOTION

At the Council meeting of May 8, 2001, Council referred the following Motion, which was submitted as a Notice of Motion on April 24, 2001, to the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment, in order to hear from speakers:

Possible Relocation of Lafarge Concrete Batch Plant File: 8009

MOVED by Cllr. Louis,
SECONDED by Cllr. Bass,

WHEREAS Lafarge Canada has indicated a possible interest in locating a concrete batch plant at the old Sterling Shipyard site in the Port of Vancouver;

WHEREAS the community has expressed its opposition to this plan and asked that the planning process which the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Port Authority have committed to for this area be completed;

WHEREAS many of the issues concerning air quality, noise and traffic, identified by the Vancouver Port Authority's, independent Project Advisory Committee when they unanimously rejected the Lafarge proposal at the New Brighton Park, are equally pertinent at the Sterling site;

WHEREAS the Vancouver Port Authority has indicated its interest in initiating the planning process in this calendar year;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council advise the Vancouver Port Authority that it does not support locating the Lafarge concrete batch plant at the Sterling Shipyard site at this time. And calls on the VPA, together with the City and community, to complete the planning process for the area between Victoria Drive and New Brighton park prior to any consideration of the Lafarge proposal at the Sterling site.

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