Land use contracts for hundreds of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody homes are due to be cancelled next year — a move required by the provincial government.
In Coquitlam, the termination of the land use contracts (LUC) will affect homeowners in Meadowbrook, a neighbourhood with 176 properties located south of Dewdney Trunk Road and east of Lougheed Highway that’s next to the Port Coquitlam border.
In Port Coquitlam, the city has 28 LUC.
And in Port Moody — where a number of properties at Eagle Point, Sentinel Hill, Easthill, Highland Park, Inlet View and Balmoral Place were rezoned last year after their LUC were nixed — homeowners on San Remo Drive and in the Suter Brook Village will also go through the process of eliminating their LUC in favour of municipal rezoning.
In 2014, the provincial government legislated under the Local Government Act that all LUC were to end by June 30, 2024, meaning that B.C. municipalities with outstanding LUC had to have the new rezoning in place by June 30, 2022.
LUC — agreements made in the 1970s between developers and local governments — are zoning, development permits, subdivision layouts and servicing agreements rolled into one document; however, because they are so strict, LUC make it hard for owners and cities to make simple changes to those properties.
Meadowbrook’s LUC was signed in 1974 by the then mayor for the District of Coquitlam, Jim Tonn, and the developer North Road Housing Co. Ltd.
Meadowbrook is the last neighbourhood in Coquitlam with an LUC.
City staff are now reaching out to Meadowbrook residents about the upcoming land use change (of which consent isn’t required from property owners).
Consultation is expected to take place in early 2022, with a public hearing set for the spring/summer.
Meadowbrook residents will be notified by letter about the meeting and will be invited to make comment before city council adopts the bylaw.
For more details, visit letstalkcoquitlam.ca/meadowbrook or email Sara McCartney at [email protected] or call 604-927-3993.
