LOWER MAINLAND REVIEW PANEL

- LMRP % GVRD Planning. Department _
2034 West 12th Avenue

Vancouver, B.C. V6K 2R5
, October 7th,

Mayor and Council. .
The Corp. of the City of Port Coquitlam
2272 McAllister Avenue

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. V3C 2A8

Dear Mayor’ and Council:

RE: Review of the Official Regional Plan for the Lower Mainland

As you are aware, the four Regional Districts in the Lower Mainland and the
Lower Mainland Review Panel have been discussing for sometime the program for the
first phase of the Review of the Official Regional Plan.

The first phase of the Review is now to be carried out by a consultant team,
composed .of Mr. Murray Jones of M.V. Jones and Associates Ltd., the prime consultant,
and Mr, John Connelly of T.J. Connelly and Associates, the sub-consultant. They
have been asked to complete the first. phase work by the end of this ‘year and to deal
-in depth with five main points. These are: , 2

(1) to advise on the kind of. regional plan which is most appropriate
to the Lower Mainland; ; . oe
(2) to determine the success of the Official Regional Plan since 1966;
CG) to determine data requirements for update of the Plan and the
information gaps that must be filled; .
(4) to outline development issues and growth management concerns that
' the revised Plan should include; co a :
G6) to indicate housekeeping changes for the Plan to bring it into line
, with legislation and organizational changes over the past ten years,

A very ‘important part of this stage of the Review is to obtain as much input
from member Municipal Councils or their Planning Committees as possible. Hence, a
‘Significant portion of the consultant team's time is to be allocated to these
meetings. As the time of year is awkward with the many meetings and election duties, |
I respectfully request that when contacted, you give high priority to setting a
firm meeting date for the consultant team, at which as many elected representatives

as possible can attend,

‘Yours sincerely >

JWI /RH/1s

Letter sent to all Lower Mainland Regional Districts and Member Municipalities

Cortes: Ald Laluis
Ald Traboolay

a. 0. Allok
v.¢. Borceh
Ut: Lee