More than 250 responses came in this month and last on the city of Port Coquitlam's consultation for a major road due to be built from Burke Mountain to Lougheed Highway.
By last Friday's deadline, city managers had fielded 264 responses on the proposed Fremont connector by email, through an online and mail-in survey, and at the open house and town hall meeting held last month at the Hyde Creek recreation complex.
City council will review the public submissions, which will form the basis of its decision this spring on the route alignment.
There are no immediate plans to build the multi-million dollar connector, which will link Dominion Triangle, Burns Road and Prairie Avenue with Victoria Drive on the Coquitlam side.
Other PoCo news:
SAR $
A plea for the city of Port Coquitlam to donate $10,000 to a Coquitlam Search and Rescue fundraising campaign will be discussed next month.
At Monday's city finance committee, council heard from a SAR delegation about its goal to raise more than $400,000 to replace an aging mobile command centre by the end of the year. The team of volunteers is currently about $30,000 short of its target.
So far, the city of Coquitlam has ponied up $95,000 - $30,000 of which is from casino revenues - and, last month, Port Moody council contributed $10,000. On Thursday, the team recognized a $25,000 donation from the Canadian Tire stores in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.
Coquitlam SAR's territory stretches from Indian Arm to Pitt Lake, and Garibaldi Park to the Fraser River. In 2013, it responded to 38 callouts that totalled 3,044 volunteer hours.
FOX HELP
Terry Fox's hometown will offer in-kind assistance to kick off the 35th anniversary of the cancer crusader's Marathon of Hope.
On Monday, Port Coquitlam's finance committee voted to help with measures such as road closures, permits, RCMP assistance and route signage on Saturday, April 4 - the Terry Fox Foundation's official launch day for the commemoration ceremonies.
On that day, a number of community events are happening, including a 21 km walk/run that follows Fox's training route through Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam and Port Moody. At 11 a.m. that day, the public will be invited to walk or run around Fox's old neighbourhood and circle the track at Maple Creek middle school (the former Hastings junior secondary, where he learned to run with a prosthesis after having his leg amputated.
Since 1980, the Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than half a billion dollars to research cancer, the disease that claimed Fox in 1981 and prevented him from finishing the Marathon of Hope.
@jwarrenTC
