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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Date: April 12, 1996
Dept. File No.000 020
TO: Vancouver City Council
FROM: General Manager of Engineering Services and
Manager of Real Estate Services
SUBJECT: Street Closures and Subdivision - Rupert Park
RECOMMENDATION
A. THAT all those portions of Kitchener Street, Cassiar Street,
the lane south of Kitchener Street, west of Cassiar Street in
Block 86, and the lane north of Kitchener Street, east of
Cassiar Street in Block 100, the same as shown hatched on the
plan attached as Appendix "A", be closed, stopped-up and
placed in the care and custody of the Park Board, subject to
the following conditions:
1. The Park Board to be responsible for the cost of
physically closing the streets and lanes to the
satisfaction of the General Manager of Engineering
Services.
2. The Park Board to be responsible for relocation or
removal of existing utilities contained within the area
of streets and lanes to be closed or, alternatively,
provision of Statutory Rights-of-Way to contain them, to
the satisfaction of the General Manager of Engineering
Services.
3. The said streets and lanes to be closed to be subdivided
dedicating City road as required, with the lands as
shown within the heavy outline on the plan attached as
Appendix "A", to create a single parcel to the
satisfaction of the General Manager of Engineering
Services and the Approving Officer.
4. Completion of acquisition of a portion of Block B,
Sections 28 and 29, Town of Hastings Suburban Lands,
Plan 19244, by the Ministry of Transportation &
Highways, for the new Rupert Street off-ramp.
5. The Ministry of Transportation & Highways to cancel all
gazette notices relating to the subject streets and
lanes to be closed, and the abutting lands.
B. THAT the 16 City-owned parcels with Blocks 85, 86 and 100 of
Town of Hastings Suburban Lands shown shaded on the plan
attached as Appendix "A", and listed in Appendix "B", be
placed in the care and custody of the Park Board.
C. THAT the Director of Legal Services be authorized to execute
the subdivision plan and documents, on behalf of the City,
required to accomplish the creation of the single parcel
described in Recommendation A.
COUNCIL POLICY
The authority for closing and disposing of portions of streets and
lanes is set out in the Vancouver Charter.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this report is to:
1) obtain Council approval to close, stop-up and place in the care
and custody of the Park Board, portions of City streets and lanes
no longer required for road purposes;
2) place 16 City-owned parcels in the care and custody of the Park
Board;
3) authorize the Director of Legal Services to execute the required
plans and documents.
BACKGROUND
On April 19, 1994, Council approved the report of the General Manager
of Engineering Services that recommended closure of the portion of the
former Cassiar-Rupert Diversion under City control. That report also
described the process by which the new Rupert Park will be created.
On July 5, 1994, Council approved the report of the General Manager of
Engineering Services that recommended closure of portions of Kitchener
Street, Grant Street, the lane east of Rupert Street between Kitchener
Street and Grant Street and the lane north of Grant Street running east
of the lane east of Rupert Street.
This report is the third and final report related to the closure of
streets and lanes required to create the main parcel of the new Rupert
Park. (A smaller parcel to contain the parking lot, north of Charles
Street, will be dealt with under closures related to the Cassiar
Connector, City and Ministry of Transportation & Highways Land
Exchanges.)
DISCUSSION
On April 2, 1996, Council approved the recommendations contained in the
report of the General Manager of Engineering Services pertaining to the
Cassiar Connector. With approval of those recommendations, we are now
able to seek the final approval of road closures required to complete
the creation of the new Rupert Park described in the report approved by
Council on April 19th, 1994.
The subject streets and lanes were included in the 1960s series of
Highway Plans prepared on the Trans-Canada Highway. Specifically,
these streets and lanes were included in Highway Plan and formed the
initial phase of the Cassiar-Rupert Diversion. With the 1993
construction of the new Cassiar Connector and the Rupert Street
Off-ramp, the Cassiar-Rupert Diversion is no longer in use. The Park
Board has redeveloped the subject area, as a part of a golf course, and
occupies the land. The streets and lanes to be closed and the adjacent
City-owned lots in Blocks 85, 86 and 100 of the Town of Hastings
Suburban Lands, which are shown as part of the Cassiar-Rupert
Diversions on Highway Plan 62, are to be turned over to the Park Board
in exchange for the portion of Rupert Park contained in the new Rupert
Street Off-ramp. The Ministry of Transportation & Highways has
cancelled gazette notices pertaining to the subject closures and to the
lands listed within Appendix "B". A right-of-way will be required to
contain the services (B.C. Telephone and B.C. Hydro) that exist within
the portion of Cassiar Street to be closed. Alternatively, the Park
Board will be responsible for the relocation of any utilities not
contained in the required right-of-way.
CONCLUSION
Council approval of the recommendations contained in this report are
required to complete the creation of the new Rupert Park.
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