Two St. George Street properties will become the site of a 12-unit townhouse complex after council approved a zoning amendment and development permit at Tuesday's meeting.
The units will be spread across four buildings, with duplexes at the corners of Hugh and St. George streets and Hugh and St. Andrews; the other two buildings of four units each will face St. George and St. Andrews.
Two parking spaces per unit, as well as two visitor spaces, are in keeping with the zoning bylaw, even though the development is within three blocks of the West Coast Express and Moody Centre Evergreen Line stations.
Trillium Project Management is working with another developer to move the home at 2830 St. George St. to another Moody Centre lot to ensure its preservation; the home is not on the city's Heritage Register but does have historical significance, according to a staff report.
The developer is also contributing $23,000 to PoMo's affordable housing reserve and $5,000 to the art works reserve fund.
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Port Moody will aim to lobby the province on behalf of strata residents who want to dry their clothes outside.
Coun. Rick Glumac suggested council submit a resolution to the 2017 Lower Mainland Local Government Association asking the province to enact legislation that would prohibit stratas from restricting the use of outdoor clotheslines and drying racks.
The motion follows a June presentation from a local resident who had recently moved into a townhouse and was surprised to find its bylaws prevented her from using an outdoor rack.
"This is outrageously stupid on many levels and an infringement on our right to enjoy our own very expensive property," Marion Eals wrote in a letter to council, noting Ontario and Nova Scotia already have a similar law in place.
Coun. Diana Dilworth noted Eals had not asked her own strata to change the regulations but was aiming for a more sweeping change in lobbying for provincial legislation.
"I want all of B.C. to dry their laundry in the wind, so this is a bit of a no-brainer," said Coun. Rob Vagramov.
Mayor Mike Clay said stratas are free to change their own bylaws and questioned the need for a new province-wide law, but supported the motion along with the rest of council (Coun. Barbara Junker was absent).
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