STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL

ON PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT

A C T I O N S

DATE: Thursday, April 23, 1998

TIME: 2:00 p.m.

PLACE: Committee Room No. 1

Third Floor, City Hall

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ADOPTION OF MINUTES

The minutes of the meeting of March 26, 1998, were adopted.

1. Casino-Class 1 Relocation to 760 Robson Street

Great Canadian Casino Ltd.

THAT the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment advise the B.C. Gaming Commission it does not endorse the request by Great Canadian Casino Ltd., to change the location of their Casino-Class 1 to 760 Robson Street, having considered the opinion of area residents and business operators as determined through the neighbourhood notification process.

- CARRIED (Councillor Sullivan opposed)

2(a) Physical On-Street Enhancement

Downtown Eastside and Nearby Areas

A.THAT Council approve the special area enhancement and clean-up program in the Downtown Eastside and nearby areas (DTES) as described in the Administrative Report dated April 6, 1998, including the reallocation of services and budgets from existing services and budgets.

B.THAT street lighting improvements be made by installing a second set of mast arms on the sidewalk side of the street light poles on Hastings from Main to Abbott (both sides), on Hastings from Abbott to Cambie (south side), and on Columbia from Hastings to Cordova (both sides). Funding of $77,000 for these improvements is available from the 1998 Capital Program for Infill Lighting.

C.THAT staff report back evaluating the effects of these lighting changes in the Spring of 1999.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

2(b) Murals for Hoardings on Hastings Street -

Downtown Eastside

A.THAT Council approve a special one-time transfer of $ 27,500 from the Public Art Unallocated Budget to the Community Public Art program.

B.THAT Council approve a Community Public Art grant of $ 27,500 to the Carnegie Community Centre Association for the expansion of the "Walls of Change" project to paint murals on hoardings along Hastings from Cambie to Main Street.

C.THAT Council approve the transfer of $2,500 from the Public Art Unallocated Budget to the Public Art Maintenance Reserve, to maintain the murals as needed.

- CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND

BY THE REQUIRED MAJORITY

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(c) 1998 City of Vancouver