Greater Vancouver Regional District 2294 WEST TENTH AVENUE VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA Vok 2H9 TELEPHONE Tie 1155

Please refer to our file number: 2401

October 4th, 1977

Mayor and Council Corp. of the City of

. Port Coquitlam

City Hall ; 2272 McAllister Avenue PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. V3C 2A8

Dear Mayor and Council:

‘Review of the Official Regional Plan for the Lower Mainland of British Columbia

The four Regional Districts in the Lower Mainland together with the support of the Minister of Municipal Affairs. and Housing are conducting a review of the Official Regional Plan which was prepared by the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board in 1966 and adopted by the 28 municipalities subsequently. This Plan ‘which is now ten years old requires some redefinition and updating to take account of the legislation affecting land management in the Province which has been enacted since 1966. Furthermore the Plan was based upon background studies prepared prior to 1966 and there is more recent information available, . -

As a first step in this updating the four Regional Districts have commissioned a review of the Official Regional Plan to be carried out by consultants, i.e., -Murray Jones and Associates and T.J. Connelly and Associates acting with a Staff Liaison Committee from the four Regional Districts and their Technical Planning

Committees.

The Lower Mainland Review Panel composed of two elected representatives of ‘each of the four Regional Districts is also assisting in the process, You may. have -already heard from the Chairman of that Panel in connection with this review. One of the important facets of the review is a discussion with the member | - councils in the Lower Mainland. Representatives of the consultant and staff ‘would appreciate one hour of the time of your Council or its Planning Committee during the period between October 25th and November 18th, 1977. Nancy Grant of the CVRD staff has been asked to contact you to set up a Suitable time and date

in that period.