"THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM ; 0 UJ N '
| OCT 23 1978

‘LO: Mayor and Council , October 19th, .1978

FROM: Public Works Committee

Report of Public Works Committee Meeting heid October 18th,
1978. .

IN ATTENDANCE: Alderman E.W. Mabbett
, F.E. Peters

ITEM I

Re: Closing. of Morgan Avenue at Broadway in
Conjunction with Rezoning Application
R#9-78

A report from the Planning Officer considered by
Council on October 10th, 1978 requested the Public Works
Committee to investigate the effects of closing Morgan Avenue
to traffic west of Broadway and of cancelling the northerly
half of Morgan between Broadway and Ryan.

° The Public Works Committee has no objections to
the closing of Morgan and feels that such closure would be
desireable as means of separating the industrial traffic from
the residential area west of Broadway. ,
ITEM IT

Re: House Numbers on Curbs

A letter from Mr. Richard Oak and addressed to the
City Clerk had been referred to the Committee for comments. Mr.
Oak requests permission to paint house numbers onto the curbs
in front of homes in the City as a business venture.

The Committee felt that the disadvantages of allowing
this type of business would ‘outweigh the advantages to the people
of having their homes more easily located. The main disadvantage
from the City's point of view would be that, once people were
aware that it was allowable to paint numbers on the curb, they
might well decide to paint their own. Thus, instead of having
uniform numbers all along a street, a wide variety of styles and
quality of workmanship might result. The City might also receive
complaints from homeowners about other people parking in front
of their curb in such a way as to obscure their house number.

The Committee therefore recommends that permission be not granted.