city has a number of concerns about the planned middle school…
Posted on | February 16, 2009 |
as published on page 6 Tri-Crty News Friday, February 13, 2009
PoMo ponders pipes
City wants assurances about sewer connection for planned middle school in Anmore. - Articles by Sarah Payne
THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Port Moody supports the building of a middle school in Anmore but has yet to give permission on a connection to the city’s sewer system.
The middle school, expected to cost $20 million and serve 500 students, will be located on Heritage Mountain next to Heritage Woods secondary school. The province will provide money once the rezoning application is approved by the village of Anmore.
Tim Savoie, Port Moody’s director of planning, said the city has a number of concerns about the planned middle school, including access and traffic, tree retention and policing issues and costs that may arise should Port Moody Police respond to calls in mutual aid with the Coquitlam RCMP.
“We should be working together at least to provide some consultation with respect to the proposal,” Savoie said. The sewer connection, however, will require approvals from PoMo and Metro Vancouver, and Port Moody has been hesitant to offer the service in the past.
Residents of Anmore Green Estates approached the city more than a year ago in the hopes of hooking up to the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District system through Port Moody. Metro Vancouver supported the proposal in principle on the condition the strata first receive PoMo’s okay but the city wants a $40,000 study paid for by the strata, to examine the implications to PoMo should the entire village end up asking for sewer service. There haven’t been any negotiations since then, Mayor Joe Trasolini said Tuesday “The request will have to be dealt with as the middle school only,” he said. “Because if we’re going to get into a village of Anmore connection to the sewer system, it requires much more detailed dialogue and agreement.”
Port Moody has to submit its comments on the middle school proposal to Anmore before the village’s public hearing on Feb. 19. School District 43 assistant superintendent Dan Derpak confirmed the connection would only be for the middle school. And the necessary piping is already in place; it was installed when Heritage Woods secondary was built because it would have been too difficult to dig up the high school’s field and geothermal heating pipes to put in a middle school sewer connection at a later date.
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For more information regarding the proposed building of Heritage Middle School please contact:
Village of Anmore - Anmore Mayor Hal Weinberg, Councilor John McEwen, Councilor Kerri Palmer Isaak, Councilor Mario Piamonte, Anmore Councilor Chris Sedergreen. 2697 Sunnyside Road, Anmore, BC, V3H 5G9
School District 43 – SD43 - Tom Grant Superintendant of Schools, Dan Derpak, Assistant Superintendant of Schools, Holly Butterfield School Trustee. 550 Poirier Street, Coquitlam, B.C. V3J 6A7
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