There was no shortage of bylaws for Burnaby city council to look over on Monday night at its latest meeting, but not all of them made it through with flying colours.
Council went through seven rezoning applications, including requests to permit a sales centre at 4750 Kingsway, two four-storey mixed use developments in Burnaby Heights, a highrise with podium at 2450 Alpha Ave., the expansion of the gross floor area of a home at 7284 Braeside Dr., a childcare centre on Lougheed Highway, a lowrise residential building on Dawson Street and the installation of two skysigns at 3700 Willingdon Ave.
Before calling the question, Mayor Derek Corrigan clarified that the applications were simply requesting to be received by council as information and that approval or denial of the proposed developments would come later.
“These are simply permission to work with the planning department and they will later be advanced with reports, but it gives people an idea of some of the things that staff are working on right now,” he said.
Council received all but one as information, as they referred the Alpha Avenue application to the community development committee for further analysis after Coun. Paul McDonell raised concerns with its recommendation to amend the concept sketch of the Brentwood Town Centre Development Land Use Plan.
First reading was given to a three-storey mixed-use commercial and residential development at 7174 Barnet Rd., as well as a five-storey mixed-use development in Burnaby Heights.
Second reading was given to permit construction of a four-storey mixed-use development at 7604 Sixth St. and a residential sales centre at 4700 Imperial St. However, council tabled a bylaw for a conceptual development plan for a multi-phased industrial business park in South Burnaby that would’ve otherwise gone up for second reading.
Consideration and third reading was given to a proposed three-storey stacked townhouse development, totalling 20 units, at 7670 Kingsway.
On the spending front, more than $500,000 was OK’d for road and traffic improvements. Council gave its stamp of approval for designs of several major road projects, including the widening Rumble Street between Gilley and MacPherson, enhancements to Edmonds south of Kingsway to Salisbury and proposed traffic-calming modifications to Cariboo Road, Stormont Avenue and Gaglardi Way.
The rest of that $500,000 went to minor traffic management projects and various traffic control device upgrades.
Final adoption was given for upgrades to the RCMP locker rooms, at a budget of $177,000. Council also allocated $190,000 to finance the Deer Lake Integrated Watershed Management Plan to manage rainwater runoff.
The Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch of the Burnaby Public Library was given the thumbs up for $100,000 in furnishings and shelving, as well as $300,000 to add radio frequency identification security for circulating library materials.
