Two more apartment blocks will be built in a new Coquitlam City Centre neighbourhood.
And the development will include a park that will be used by the public but be on private land.
On Monday, city council approved a development permit to Polygon Homes for two four-storey apartment complexes on a former mobile home site at 3107 Windsor Gate, off Pipeline Road.
Once fully built, the Windsor Gate development is expected to have 1,450 homes in highrises (three towers at 27 storeys and one tower with 25 storeys) as well as townhouses and condos. It will also have a public walkway network and a 20,000-square foot neighbourhood park.
The green space will be considered as "semi-public" - that is, used as a public amenity but will remain in private ownership, Jim McIntyre, Coquitlam's general manager of planning, told council.
Coun. Mae Reid stressed that point needs to be communicated to Windsor Gate residents.
Meanwhile, city council on Monday also granted a development permit to build 30 townhouses in 16 buildings along a major road on Burke Mountain, where the city plans another 20,000 people.
The development will happen at 3450 David Ave. - between west and east Smiling Creek - south of David Avenue and north of Burke Village Promenade, close to Burke's commercial hub.
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GOV'T ED.?
Coquitlam students want to know more about municipal politics and government before they graduate from high school.
That was one of the messages from the 73-member Coquitlam Youth Council, which this week gave highlights about its past year to the city's council-in-committee.
In the report, Dr. Charles Best secondary students Brietta Stewart, Kelvin Vo and Adam MacDonald as well as Shehan Wijeyagoonewardane of Terry Fox secondary described their involvement with the city since last September. During the year, they organized and took part in a number of volunteer events and activities and appreciated how much work was involved to run the city, Vo said.
Wijeyagoonewardane said the youth council liked to be included in the drafting of the Partington Creek Neighbourhood Plan - a new Burke Mountain community where up to 15,000 residents will live - and suggested Civic Studies 11 be included in the school curriculum.
TRASH APP
Want a reminder when to put out the trash, recycling and green cans? Coquitlam has an app for that.
The city has signed on with Recollect to alert homeowners that have municipal collection service about when to place their bins on the curb.
To get the electronic "nudge," residents can visit coquitlam.ca/curbsidecollection and type in their address. They can view their personalized collection schedule and:
set up a weekly reminder by smartphone, email, text message or Twitter;
print out their collection schedule for reference;
and upload their schedule to their personal calendar - be it iCal, Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.
An app for iPhones or Android devices can also be downloaded.
The aim of the technology is to reduce the city's printing costs and save paper.
