STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL

ON PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT

ACTIONS

DATE: Thursday, March 12, 1998

TIME: 2:00 p.m.

PLACE: Committee Room No. 1

Third Floor, City Hall

Please call Nancy Largent at 873-7652 for more information regarding this meeting.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

The minutes of the meeting of March 5, 1998, were adopted.

1. Significant Rezoning and Development Applications

THAT the Planning Department presentation be received for information. (Application C was dealt with concurrently with item 3.)

2.Approval of Business Improvement Area (BIA) Budgets

A.THAT Council approve the BIA Business Promotion Schemes and Budgets for the 1998-1999 year listed below and instruct staff to bring forward the appropriate rating by-laws:

LEVY		BIA
$500,000 248,500 132,000 98,000 199,000		Downtown Robson Kerrisdale Mount Pleasant Gastown

B.THAT, following approval of the Designation and Allocation By-laws for the Downtown Vancouver (Expansion Area) BIA, Council approve the BIA Business Promotion Scheme and Budget for the 1998-1999 year listed below and instruct staff to bring forward the appropriate rating by-law:

LEVY		BIA
$205,000		Downtown (Expansion Area)

3.Process for Considering a Development Proposal for 1405 Anderson Street on Granville Island ("Under the Bridges" Theatre Complex Proposal)

THAT the development proposal for 1405 Anderson Street ("Under the Bridges") and related amendments to the Granville Island Reference Document be dealt with as follows:

i)Reference Document amendments be processed similarly to an amendment to an official development plan whereby Council may consider such changes, along with the principles of the development, at a special meeting of Council, similar to a Public Hearing, following a report including staff analysis and recommendations; and

ii)should the necessary amendments to the Reference Document be approved, the detailed proposal be processed similarly to a development application by the Development Permit Board.

4. Urban Safety Commission

THAT Council approve the Urban Safety Commission/Coalition's request for funds of $75,000; source of funds to be the 1998 Operating Budget.

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(c) 1998 City of Vancouver