Draft City Centre Area Plan - Overview

Creating a Vibrant Downtown Core

Establishing a Strong Employment Base

Building a Family-Friendly Downtown

Enhancing Recreation and Cultural Services

Integrating and Connecting Downtown

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5 Big Moves

Big Moves: Past and Future City Centre has seen many changes over the past several decades and has increasingly become a hub for both the community and region. Building on these past, the draft City Centre Area Plan renews the vision for Coquitlam’s downtown. The highlights of the Plan are summarized as five new Big Moves, which work collectively to achieve this vision.

This handout summarizes the draft Plan, by highlighting the 5 Big Moves. After reviewing the Big Moves, please give us a few minutes of your time to answer our survey. Your feedback will be used to help refine and complete the Plan for Coquitlam’s downtown.

For additional details, review the draft Plan and read the Community Information Session display panels, available online at coquitlam.ca/ccap.

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Mailing list Go to coquitlam.ca/CCAP to subscribe to City Centre Area Plan for email updates.

• Transform existing mall sites near SkyTrain into a downtown core.

• Include a mix of residential towers, offices, shops, dining and entertainment, and public amenities.

• Create a network of pedestrian-friendly commercial streets where businesses open directly onto the sidewalk.

• Establish a new entertainment district with restaurants, pubs and other venues.

• Support tourism and the business community with new hotel and conference space.

• Increase the amount of commercial space that is required as part of new developments in the downtown core.

• Concentrate office space into clusters around Lincoln and Coquitlam Central SkyTrain stations to attract new employers to City Centre.

• Maintain lands along Barnet Highway and in the Christmas Way area for light industrial and commercial businesses. Update City regulations to attract new industrial/commercial buildings.

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Past Big Moves

1979 Coquitlam Centre

1993 City Centre Aquatic Complex

1996 Evergreen Cultural Centre

1996 Douglas College

1997 Pinetree Community Centre

1998 City Hall moves to City Centre

2008 Glen Pine Pavilion

2010 Spirit Square opens

2013 Coquitlam Public Library opens

2016 Town Centre Park Plaza

2016 SkyTrain Extension

Creating a Vibrant Downtown Core

Establishing a Strong Employment Base

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• Direct the majority of new housing to the downtown core and maintain existing homes in surrounding neighbourhoods. This will provide a range of housing options across City Centre.

• Secure a centrally located new elementary school site within the downtown core.

• Encourage partnerships for new and expanded services, including affordable housing, child care, and seniors housing and care.

• Ensure streets, walkways, open spaces, and public facilities are universally accessible, benefitting people of all ages and abilities.

• Provide recreational and cultural amenities near Lincoln Skytrain Station, to serve the growing community in the downtown core.

• Build a network of new parks and publicly accessible open spaces to complement City Centre’s existing parks.

• Design streets, parks, squares and other open spaces, to be visually interesting, inviting, safe, functional and unique, contributing to City Centre’s distinct identity.

• Concentrate new high density mixed-use development around the SkyTrain to allow more residents, workers and visitors direct access to high-quality transit.

• Develop a network of streets that serves pedestrians, cyclists, transit and automobiles. New streets will enhance connectivity and reduce travel distances.

• Connect commercial areas with surrounding neighbourhoods, schools, parks and natural areas with a series of pathways and greenways.

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Building a Family-Friendly Downtown

Enhancing Recreation and CulturalServices

Integrating and Connecting Downtown

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How was the Draft Plan developed?The draft Plan was developed through a step-by-step process that involved extensive consultation with residents, visitors, property and business owners, the development community, and City Council.

The draft Plan’s land use concept and policies are based on public feedback received to-date, and a series of background and technical discussion papers, reports and booklets.

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We are here.

Email: ccap@coquitlam.ca Phone: 604-927-3430

Online resources Go to coquitlam.ca/CCAP for background reports, studies and more.

Mailing list Go to coquitlam.ca/CCAP to subscribe to City Centre Area Plan for email updates.

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