Fraser Heights Community Association Meeting
November 18, 2009
Genevieve Garceau is the police constable assigned to the Fraser Heights area
- Please be sure to report any and all incidents of a police nature to the RCMP. Many people fail to report thefts from autos and other petty crimes but without these reports, the RCMP cannot create profiles of the area and do not have statistics that help Surrey determine the level of policing required for the whole city.
- Draco’s café (168th Street and 104th Ave. has been broken into several times so they are selling their business
RF rezoning
- The Surrey Rate Payers Association was formed last summer to try to get the restrictions removed for the sizes of houses allowed on city lots.
- There were 4 open houses held in order to get input from residents of Surrey. These open houses were well attended. The results were to allow people to apply on a neighbourhood by neighbourhood basis rather than give a blanket approval for the City of Surrey
- These very large houses were slated to have 2 to 4 secondary suites rented out or for family usage
Port Mann Gateway Project
- There will be an open house on December 9th at the Guildford Sheraton Hotel. If you have any concerns in regards to berms for sound mitigation or closures, decisions about the corridor from 152nd to 164th are being made now so please attend this open house. The time of the meeting will be posted in the local newspapers. The Sheraton Guildford will provide free parking to all residents who back onto the freeway – all other residents/attendees will have to pay for parking at the hotel or park at Guildford and walk the block to the hotel.
Traffic Issues
- 156th Street between 108 to 112 Ave. has a crumbling soft shoulder. This has been reported to the City and we are awaiting their reply as to when we can expect them to fix the sides of this road.
Development at 176th Street and Highway 1
- This project went for a 3rd hearing in September 2009. The vote to pass the plans (the map attached to this email) was tied so Mayor Diane Watts broke the tie and voted against this development as it stands.
- In 2008, the proposal was for 541 units. This number has risen to 841 units as of September 2009.
- The proposed development is for 5 buildings that are 6 stories high, 5 buildings that are 4 stories, 3 Retail buildings and a gas station (please see the map for more details). All buildings will be wood framed.
- The exit for this project will be via an overpass across 176 Street to 100th/Barnston Road that runs from 176thStreet to 168th Street and around Pacific Academy.
- The concerns were: limited access/exits, high density population (that will be one of the highest population rates in Surrey per square area). Trans Mountain Pipeline has a right of way across this development so this restricts how much of the land can be developed.
- Concerns were that, since not all the retail space was rented out at 168 Street and 104 Ave that it might be difficult to rent out any retail space in this development since access would be quite limited.
- This development will have 1200 spots for parking
- There will be no access to the South Fraser Perimeter Road that is going to be going in.
- Concerns were that this development might be like the Little Mountain development in Vancouver that was recently taken down
- No transit is slated to service this area at this point in time