ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

                                                      Date:   July 17, 1996
                                                      Dept. File No. 5527-3


   TO:       Vancouver City Council

   FROM:     City Clerk, as Chair of Street Naming Committee

   SUBJECT:  New Street Name in Kitsilano -  Salal Drive 



   RECOMMENDATION

        A.   THAT the newly dedicated public road, from Yew Street, with
             most of its length parallel to and approximately midway
             between 11th and 12th Avenues, then turning north to meet 11th
             Avenue west of Arbutus Street, be named  Salal Drive .

        B.   THAT the Director of Legal services be instructed to bring
             forward the appropriate amendments to the Street Name By-Law.


   CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS

        The City Manager RECOMMENDS approval of A and B.


   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 is a
   staff team comprised of the City Surveyor, representatives of the
   Permits & Licenses and Legal Services Departments and is chaired by the
   City Clerk.  The Committee is responsible for the management of a
   consistent, integrated and duplication-free street name system.


   PURPOSE

   This report seeks Council approval for the naming of a newly dedicated
   public road in Kitsilano as part of the Greystone Properties Ltd
   development, 12th and Arbutus Residential Neighbourhood .

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   DISCUSSION

   A new, hockey stick-shaped road has been established in the residential
   portion of the Kitsilano neighbourhood.  It begins at Yew Street heading
   eastwards, approximately midway between 11th and 12th Avenues, and then
   turning northwards to intersect 11th Avenue west of Arbutus Street(see
   attached plan).  

   The streets running north and south in the immediately surrounding
   portion of Kitsilano are strongly characterized by their tree and plant
   names: Yew, Arbutus, Maple, Larch, Vine.  In order to preserve this
   naming pattern, the Street Names Committee has prepared a list of tree
   and plant not used elsewhere in the Vancouver area which it offers as
   suggestions for possible new street names in Kitsilano.  

    Salal  is a name appearing on that list.  The salal is a plant native
   to and growing naturally in British Columbia.  It is an evergreen, bushy
   shrub, growing to a little less than a metre in height.  In the late
   spring or early summer it produces pink flowers and later in the year,
   purple berries.

   As the road will be used by automobiles,  Drive  was deemed to be an
   appropriate and descriptive companion name to  Salal .

   After some discussion of alternatives, Greystone Developers Ltd have
   expressed themselves in favour of  Salal Drive .

   The Committee, therefore, recommends that the new road be called  Salal
   Drive .


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