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MEMORANDUM FEB 28 1983

TO: Mr. B.R. Kirk DATE: February 22, 1983
City Administrator

FROM: Mr. We. Brown
Director of Community Planning

SUBJECT: Rezoning Application No.1/83
3443 Oxford Street

RECOMMENDATION: That City Council direct the City Clerks Office to
prepare a bylaw rezoning the remainder of Lot 1;
Block E, District Lot 465, Plen 10897, from RS=1
Single Family, to RT-1 Two Family Dwelling Zoning
District.

COMMENTS:

1. This property is presently occupied by an old small single
family dwelling and has a heavy hedge of trees along most of its
perimeter. The property is a corner lot fronting onto Dorset
Avenue and having itso flanking front along Oxford Street.

2. In surveying the neighbourhood surrounding the subject property
it was found to be a mix of older, and in some instances
deteriorated homes, and newer houses which have been rebuilt in the
area. The immediate vicinity surrounding the property on Dorset
Avenue is predominately older homes that are in fair to poor
condition, and a school yard. If this application for rezoning
from RS<-l to an RT=1 Two Family Designation is approved, it will
have an affect on the neighbourhood of possibly upgrading the
standard of maintenance for the surrounding dwellings by its
example. Likewise, it may also have the affect of increasing
speculative interest on the part of owners of surrounding lots

by being an example of rezoning to a higher use.

3. Oxford Street in this vicinity is presently a narrow, quiet
residential street. In the future, however, Oxford Street may
serve as a collector street south from Victoria Avenue connecting
to Lougheed Highway. It should be noted that Qxford is one of the
three streets, (Shaughnessy, Coast Meridian and Oxford) connecting
Lougheed Highway north to Victoria Avenue. In view of that future
possibility, land use along Oxford Street is expected to change
after heavier traffic volumes are encountered.

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