Port Moody 2050: updating our Official Community Plan

STOP ALLOWING ANY MORE BUILDING UNTIL YOU GET THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE. Hospital needs to double in size, We need another St. Johns street in Port Moody to fix the traffic. WE HAVE TOO MANY CARS AND PEOPLE ALREADY. B
untzen and White Pine should be for RESIDENTS ONLY in the summer. we need DOCTORS AND NURSES

I think you'd probably get more input if you stopped saying Seaview. People identify with living in College Park, the Evergreens, Westhill, and Glenayre. Nobody - nobody - lives in Seaview. Is this a plot by the developers to rebrand our neighbourhoods or ignorant city staff?

Should have written this at housing during workshops -

Port Moody could take a leadership role in mass timber construction of mid and high rises. A policy/ OCP vision to foster this would: help the city and province meet emissions goals, help train skilled workers in mass timber construction, and help create a market for BC value added timber products. How fitting it would be if the sawmill site became home to mass timber buildings?

City should add ramps at pedestrian connectors such as Wilkes Creek connector linking Heritage Mtn Blvd and Parkside Dr so people with mobility issues or strollers don't need to take long detours to and from bus stops such as in Wilkes Creek case, northbound (ID 58890) and southbound (ID 58891) stops. In the near future, there should be a ramp linking the connector with the southbound stop and crosswalk. In the long-term future, there should also be an underpass and ramp linking multiuse path on Heritage Mtn Blvd with the connector for overflow passenger line, multipurpose weather shelter, and replacing the crosswalk for safety, reliability, and efficiency reasons. Underpass can be art-decorated as part of living up to "CITY OF THE ARTS".

Land use will be the most important aspect of community planning for the foreseeable future. Port Moody is a jewel and has many unique opportunities to preserve the natural splendour that is the main attraction for residents and visitors alike. I wish to see planning be focused on our local habitat to make sure it is allowed to flourish untouched and be resilient as possible.
I would also love to see the Ioco Heritage Lands be converted to a modern, regenerative farm that could grow local produce for local residents. Link this endeavour with schools and you will be able to teach important skills in food cultivation and production which are largely absent from our curriculum. Given what climate affects are doing, food is no longer secure!

Port Moody is not in dire need of further high-rise development. Adding towers of thousands of 2-bedroom apartments will not benefit existing Port Moody residents. They will be unaffordable for young residents who grew up in the area to purchase, too small for existing young families to benefit from, and if purchased by non-locals as investments, would further hasten the rise of rents in the city. The OCP should not focus itself solely on benefiting thousands of non-residents in the lower mainland, it should focus on building the best community for current residents and those that will grow up here, as well as ensure that the city is a livable, walkable, and sustainable community with employment opportunities and diverse neighbourhoods.

Westport? Why is this not mentioned in your latest survey regarding the OCP. They are proposing the highest density in the Tri-Cites at the entrance into our community and it’s not here… why? I hope this is not approved, it’s blocking light and views and will create a traffic nightmare at the entrance to the Barnett and Port Moody and it’s not even in the sky train vicinity. If anything is built it should be low rise with commercial below to go with what is already on Clark. I really hope this monster community has the same evaluation you have given all the other communities.

Westport? Why is this not in here?. They are proposing the highest density in the Tri-Cites at the entrance into our community and it’s not here… why? I hope this is not approved, it’s blocking light and views and will create a traffic nightmare at the entrance to the Barnett and Port Moody. If anything is built it should be low rise with commercial below to go with what is already on Clark. I really hope this monster community has the same evaluation you have given all the other communities.

I see destruction in nature by the (mainly) family demographics in parks. If I witness any younger children taking baby crabs from the ocean, I tell them "What's in ocean stays in the ocean". These people often seem to be newer immigrants. I myself is an immigrants as well however the education in ecological matter varies in country to country. A simple multi-lingual signage stating do not take/leave anything from the nature may help eliminate further losing biodiversities.

Moody Centre TOD: I laud the city planning better land uses than the current parking lot by the station. This is an opportunity to make the TOD human-centric and car-light as much as possible. We should question the need for car lanes on local streets. At most car lanes on local streets should be one-way, narrow and traffic calm. Car parking here should be very minimal. There's also an opportunity for pedestrianized local streets especially when the TOD is next to a Skytrain station. Pedestrianization is already being planned for Suter Brook. Let's get this right right away.

Moody Centre TOD: the TOD should include a protected bike lane network connecting the station to the rest of Moody centre. We need to do better than the multiuse path (MUP) currently planned for the south side of St John's street

For Oceanfront District the extension of Rocky Point Park need not be large, the most valuable thing is having greens pace near the water. Having a wide park area is not as valuable if there's just going to be big lawns like in the current Rocky Point Park.

For Moody Centre TOD and Oceanfront District, the high-rises don't bother me much when it comes to views. When we're at Rocky Point Park the view we value is facing the inlet.

We need to move away from car centric city design and start building walkable, complete communities with good access to transit.

The City of Port Moody has an opportunity to encourage small homes instead of larger homes, for example along Ioco why not require development of 3 small single family homes on a lot instead of one large home, this type of home encourages more of a community,provides an opportunity for empty nesters and new families to live in a community together and live in a single family home rather than putting everyone into condos.

expand the cycling network with protected and separated cycling lanes, adding paint and sharrows is not bold. A bike lane like like on heritage mtn, or guildford ave as it is now is terrifying to be mixed in with cars. If you build better and safer infrastructure, people will use it. If you or a child wouldnt walk in the current bike lanes, that means they are not safe enough.

Build protected infrastructure on: barnett hwy, guildford ave, and clarke st, and see families begin to use them. If you build safe infrastructure, people will use it.

Port Moody (in work with burnaby) could have one of the best and longest regional bike lanes if there was a protected space along barnett hwy

Everyone on a bike is a car off the road.

We moved here because we were looking for a quiet and interesting place to live. We moved here because there were less high rises, and less corportate fast food, cafe, restaurant chains. We like that there are more local and independent small business', as well as community feeling.

Please stop the development of natural shorelines, and preserve animal habitats.

Parks here are already jam packed in the summers.

It is not at selfish to want to preserve a way of life that is healthy, affordable, and beautiful for those of us that live here.

Port Moody has an opportunity to make a difference in developing small single family home communities, these type of units are greatly desired by young families and seniors alike, you could zone 3 small single family homes of some of the large single family homes built in our City now, like along the Ioco Road Area. There would be huge environmental advantages to communities like this, better community feeling, and probably more taxes to the City, why not go to this type of development and always zone large giant homes that are a drain on the environment and don't do much to create a community and don't help those in the community looking for homes, think about it, 3 small detached homes instead of 1 giant one, so many advantages.

Would like to see the playgrounds in Glenayre updated - similar to Coquitlam (Mundy Park) and Port Coquitlam (Riley Park) and New Westminster (Quay Park). Right now the state of the park by the pre-school is embarrassing.

Consider integrating retail amenities into the ground floor of new developments. For example: small format grocery stores like Loblaws City Market (Canada), Tesco Express (UK), Sainsbury On the Go (UK) or Amazon Go have a small footprint that would easily integrate into new developments and have easy access from street level for people in the neighbourhood. No parking required as they generally serve walk in customers living in the immediate vicinity.