The Editor,
Re. "Clay & Royer to face off in PoMo" (The Tri-City News, Sept. 5).
It will be interesting to hear some new ideas from Port Moody council candidates in the upcoming election, and especially when results from the April 2014 Ipsos Reid survey indicate such strong satisfaction and support from residents. Let's hope a general sense of well-being doesn't cause voter apathy.
There was a healthy debate about growth and development during the long official community plan process. In the end, several questions such as, square footage, density limits on strategic sites along the Evergreen Line, and elsewhere, were wisely deferred for future review.
That future is now, so let's not let the grass grow under our feet. As I previously suggested at a Land Use Committee meeting, a committee with area representatives should be appointed to consider, for example, the mill waterfront property, Coronation Park and Ioco, well ahead of our next OCP, due in 2019.
This committee could also look at floor area ratios, heights, lot coverage, set-backs, etc. to better control the larger (mega or monster) homes, which are now even starting to appear in Glenayre. In the late spring, I counted 20 new (since 2007) larger homes just in Moody Centre, with only three built in what I subjectively consider an appropriate design for their surroundings.
If, size, siting and building height calculations had been properly dealt with in the zoning review promised in 2007 at the design charrette, a great deal of this controversy could have been prevented.
John Grasty, Port Moody
