ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT




                                           Date: August 27, 1996
                                           Dept. File No. 000 000


   TO:       Vancouver City Council

   FROM:     General Manager of Engineering Services

   SUBJECT:  3350 East Hastings Street
             Emergency Operations and Communications Centre
             Proposed Road Closures


   RECOMMENDATIONS

        A.   THAT all those portions of Rupert Street, from Hastings Street
             to Pender Street;  Hastings Street east of  Rupert Street; the
             lane east  of  Rupert Street  from Hastings  Street to  Pender
             Street;  and the lane south  of Hastings Street  east from the
             lane east of Rupert Street, each  the same as shown hatched on
             the plan attached  as Appendix "A", be  closed, stopped-up and
             re-subdivided subject to the following conditions:

             (i)    the said  City streets and lanes to be closed are to be
                    subdivided to  create a single parcel,  as shown within
                    the heavy outline on the plan attached as Appendix "B",
                    dedicating  the portions  required for  Hastings Street
                    (approximately as shown shaded  on Appendix "B") to the
                    satisfaction  of  the  General Manager  of  Engineering
                    Services and the Approving Officer; and

             (ii)   relocation  or removal of existing utilities within the
                    lanes to be  closed to the satisfaction of  the General
                    Manager of Engineering Services; and 

             (iii)  provision of a Statutory Right-of-Way for utilities and
                    access  over a  portion of the  said portion  of Rupert
                    Street to be closed, the same as shown approximately on
                    the plan attached as  Appendix "C", to the satisfaction
                    of the General Manager  of Engineering Services and the
                    Director of Legal Services; and
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             (iv)   provision of a Statutory Right-of-Way for utilities and
                    access over  a portion  of Lot  28 of Lot  60, Town  of
                    Hastings Suburban  Lands, Plan  330, the same  as shown
                    approximately on Appendix "C",  to the satisfaction  of
                    the General  Manager  of Engineering  Services and  the
                    Director of Legal Services; and

             (v)    the  Emergency  Operations  and  Communications  Centre
                    (E.O.C.C.) to be responsible for all costs to remove or
                    relocate   utilities  as   necessary,  and   any  costs
                    associated  with physically  closing  the  streets  and
                    lanes  to the  satisfaction of  the General  Manager of
                    Engineering Services; and

             (vi)   completion of  acquisition of  privately owned  Lots 28
                    and 29 of Lot 60, Town of Hastings Suburban Lands, Plan
                    330, by the Manager of Real Estate Services; and

        B.   THAT the Director of Legal  Services be authorized to  execute
             any  plan,  transfers  and   documents  required  to  complete
             Recommendation A, on behalf of the City.

   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 seek  Council authority to  close and
   stop-up  portions of  streets and  lanes as  required to  allow for  the
   construction  of the E.O.C.C. at  the southeast corner  of Rupert Street
   and Hastings Street (3350 East Hastings Street).

   BACKGROUND

   On February 29, 1996, the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment
   approved  a series  of Recommendations  contained in  a report  from the
   Manager  of Facilities  Development  and  the  Manager  of  Real  Estate
   Services  pertaining to  the proposed  rezoning and  development, of  an
   E.O.C.C.  at  the southeast corner of Rupert Street and Hastings Street.
   On  April 2,  1996,  Council  passed  a  number  of  Recommendations  as
   contained in a report  from the General Manager of  Engineering Services
   dealing  with and  describing  a  land  exchange  between  the  City  of
   Vancouver and the M.O.T.H. along the portion of the Trans-Canada Highway
   known as  the Cassiar Connector.  The subject site lies immediately west
   of  the Cassiar Connector.  On June  27, 1996, Council approved, subject
   to a number of conditions, the rezoning of the subject site.

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   DISCUSSION

   The  proposed E.O.C.C. site and abutting  lands are presently made up of
   the  following titled properties, which as a condition of rezoning, must
   be subdivided to form a single site as shown on Appendix "B".

        1.   City-owned lands, Lots 1 and 9 to 15, each except the portions
             in Plan 4299 and Highway Plan 46 and Lots 2 to 8 and 30 to 32,
             all of  Lot 60,  Town of Hastings  Suburban Lands  (T.H.S.L.),
             Plan 330; and

        2.   privately owned lands, Lots 8 and 29 of Lot 60, T.H.S.L., Plan
             330; and

        In  addition, the  site contains  or is  abutted by,  the following
        dedicated or established streets  and lanes; each of which  must be
        closed,  stopped-up  and  re-subdivided with  the  abutting  lands,
        re-dedicating road as necessary  to allow for the formation  of the
        subject parcel shown on Appendix "B".

        1.   Portions of  Rupert Street between Hastings  Street and Pender
             Street  dedicated by  the  deposit of  Plan  100.   (Plan  100
             represents a  re-survey of the original  Hastings Townsite and
             covers  all those portions of  the City of  Vancouver that lie
             north of 29th Avenue and East of Nanaimo Street.   The portion
             of Rupert Street is 99 feet  wide and contains an 8 inch water
             main and underground electrical services.  The General Manager
             of Engineering Services  supports the closure and  subdivision
             of  the  subject portion  of Rupert  Street  to allow  for its
             inclusion within the E.O.C.C. project, subject to registration
             of a  right-of-way to  contain the existing  utilities, future
             sewer  lines and water mains,  and the provision  of an access
             route  connecting Hastings  Street and  Pender Street.   These
             provisions  are addressed by condition (iii) to Recommendation
             A, and reflect Condition B (vii) of the Rezoning Report).

        2.   Portion  of Hastings Street east of Rupert Street.  (The north
             20 feet of  the portion  of Hastings Street  shown hatched  on
             Appendix  "A" has  existing titles,  being "those  portions of
             Lots  1 and 9 to  15, in Plan  4299 of Lot  60, T.H.S.L., Plan
             330", each  in  the name  of the  City of  Vancouver and  each
             "established  as  road"  by  documents  B78131L,  B78132L  and
             B78133L,  filed in the Land Title Office in 1974.  The portion
             of Hastings  Street shown hatched  on Appendix  "A" that  lies
             southerly  of Plan 4299 was  intended to be  dedicated road by
             Highway  Plan  46, prepared  in  August 1961.    The documents
             required to  dedicate these  portions as  road were  not dealt
             with by 

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             the  Land Title Office until  April 1996.   "Those portions of
             Lots 1  and 9 to 15  on Highway Plan 46",  now dedicated road,
             represents one of the numerous clean-up items described in the
             above-mentioned report  on the  Cassiar Connector on  April 2,
             1996.  Including those portions of Hastings  Street within the
             area  of  the  proposed  closure and  re-subdivision  acts  to
             simplify  both City  and  Land Title  Office  records, and  is
             consistent with  the intent  of the Cassiar  Connector Report.
             In  addition,   Appendix  "B"   shows  the  dedication   of  a
             significant  portion of  the  subject site  for a  widening of
             Hastings Street.   This  widening was built  with the  Cassiar
             Connector and is  presently in use, meaning traffic is driving
             over  titled land as opposed to dedicated road.  The southerly
             limit of the dedication is as  agreed to between the City  and
             M.O.T.H.   Completing  this dedication now removes one  of the
             items to be completed in the Cassiar Connector Exchange).

        3.   All the lane  east of  Rupert Street from  Hastings Street  to
             Pender Street dedicated by the deposit of Plan 330.  (Plan 330
             was deposited in October 1889.   This portion of lane contains
             a 15 inch sewer line and  overhead utilities that will have to
             be removed or  relocated.  Condition (ii)  to Recommendation A
             addresses this requirement).

        4.   All the lane  south of Hastings Street  from the lane  east of
             Rupert Street to  the northerly portion of  the easterly limit
             of Lot 28 dedicated by the deposit of Plan 330.  (This portion
             of lane contains a  12 inch sewer line and  overhead utilities
             that will have to be removed or relocated.  (Condition (ii) to
             Recommendation  A).  In addition,  we have indicated that Lots
             28 and 29 are privately owned.  The closure of the lane on the
             northerly edge of these properties cannot be completed without
             the acquisition  of these  lands  for their  inclusion in  the
             development.  Lots  27 to 29  are presently served  by a  lane
             running north/south  on M.O.T.H.-owned  Lot 26  and City-owned
             Lot 30, plus  the dedicated lane  to their north.   As Lot  27
             will not be acquired at this  time, it is necessary to provide
             a right-of-way to ensure utility and vehicle access to Lot 27.
             This is reflected by condition (v) to Recommendation A.)

             A  number of existing  utilities must  be relocated,  with all
             costs the responsibility of the E.O.C.C.

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   It is  noted that  portions of Lots  13 to  14 proposed to  be dedicated
   (Appendix "B")  as a requirement of  this report, may eventually  be the
   subject of  a request to Council  to close portions of  them and include
   them  as an  air-space  parcel for  the  Hastings Street  Tunnel to  the
   Cassiar  Connector.   However,  the  E.O.C.C.  Project and  the  Cassiar
   Connector must  each be able to proceed  on their own merits.   As such,
   the dedications  as shown  on Appendix  "B" are  required to ensure  the
   City's needs for Hastings Street are met.


   CONCLUSION

   The closures  sought in this  report are  required to complete  the land
   assembly for the E.O.C.C.

   The General  Manager of  Engineering Services  in consultation  with the
   Manager  of Real  Estate  and the  Director  of Legal  Services  support
   approval of Recommendations and B.



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