ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT Date: February 7, 1997 CC File: 5527-1 TO: Vancouver City Council FROM: City Clerk, as Chair of Street Naming Committee SUBJECT: New Street Name in Arbutus Industrial Area - Marstrand Avenue RECOMMENDATION A. THAT the new road south of 10th Avenue between Vine and Yew Streets be named Marstrand Avenue , and 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, chaired by the City Clerk, 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 the naming of a new public road in the Arbutus Industrial Area arising from a three-building project of Intergulf Development Group. DISCUSSION A new street, accessible to automobiles, lying approximately midway between 10th and 11th Avenues and extending from Vine Street to Yew Street has been established in the Arbutus Industrial Area. (See attached plan.) New streets in this area are being named to commemorate the industrial history of the City of Vancouver. The developer of the new street proposed a list of historic industrial names. Because of historic connections with the brewery industry and the lack of duplicates or closely similar names among the streets of greater Vancouver, the Street Naming Committee has selected Marstrand in memory of Otto Marstrand, once Danish Consul to Vancouver, a partner in and main financial backer of Doering and Marstrand, a brewery which operated nearby the location of the new street. Intergulf Development Group have expressed themselves in favour of Marstrand Avenue. The Street Naming Committee, therefore, recommends that the new road be named Marstrand Avenue. * * * * *