Port Moody 2050: updating our Official Community Plan

Don't make the same mistakes as Vancouver thinking that you can solve all of your traffic issues with more bike lanes.

Port Moody has two means of getting from West to East and the bottlenecks will only get worse with growth. A serious consideration of how to deal with traffic needs to be considered or residents will be left frustrated.

As our city grows I hope we have the 'critical' services to support our growing population including doctors and schools. It's extremely difficult to get a doctor at the moment!

It would also be nice to see an improvement to our parks with additional and improvement to current ones. My wife and I find ourselves traveling to Poco and Coquitam to bring our kids to their much better parks including Lions Park, Mundy Park , Queenstown Park and Riley Park- on another level compared to most parks around here. Rocky Point is pretty good but it's always packed which is why we need more around the city.

Immediate plans to preserve more land for parks is needed. Rocky Point Park and the shoreline trail are so busy. This could be coordinated with other cities who also need more park land to (hopefully) reduce the people travelling to Port Moody to access our parks.

Also, all the new low rise buildings going up are very unattractive and take away from the quaintness and charm of Port Moody. They look institutional. Everyone I've spoken with in the building mentions how ugly they are to look at. Who is approving these?

Please stop putting in the 5G street lights everywhere. They are harmful to humans and that awful white light they emit actually burns your retinas. Theres been many studies conducted and some countries have outright banned it altogether. I hope Port Moody hasn't signed up to be a "smart city". I don't consent to a 5G smart city that will harm me and my neighbours. Also, the 20 5G antennas on 2909 Hope Street Legion building is causing harm to veterans living there. I understand they receive money (incentive) to have the towers there. This is criminal. If you put more of these towers everywhere you're knowingly causing harm to the residents of Port Moody. Port Moody needs to outlaw these like many other countries have.

I want to see more public art...sculptures and murals are a good start. The City should reach out to local artists and even the schools to submit pieces.

Sustainability includes infrastructure upkeep & maintenance, including engineering services, roads & transportation, facilities, and the three pillars.

Question purpose of OCP if Council is able to change it to suit deep pocket developers proposals?

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Queens Street station must be built ASAP to reduce walking times to Moody Secondary and nearby businesses, and transfers to other modes (e.g. students shouldn't need to first take a 180 bus (which isn't as frequent as the 160 located one stop east on St Johns Street) to Moody Centre or Burquitlam in order to ride the SkyTrain). Also, PoMo should partner with Coquitlam to acquire 789 Clarke Rd in Coquitlam and provision the land for a future in-fill station. More details are under "Build the provisioned in-fill stations (on the Canada Line, Evergreen Extension, etc.) with partnerships or other necessary means to achieve" on TransLink's Transport 2050 portal: https://engagetranslink.ca/transport-2050/brainstormers/share-your-ideas/ideas/14254

Your Official Community Plan that you have submitted looks like the same Official Community Plan that you put on your website 7 years ago, in 2014/2015. How come you keep asking our opinion but nothing is done with our input? It doesnt seem like anything has changed or been regarding any development. But I do know that the ugly townhouses in Balmoral are falling apart inside and out. They dont seem.to go along with your city of the arts comment. They should have been torn down years ago. Just like that very artsy Buns Master building. So pretty in the middle of city wouldn't you say? NO!!!!!!!

Please add the pretty street lights you have added to St. John along the shoreline trail as well. It would
be very attractive at night for strolling and running/ dog walking , like northvancouver and downtown trails . We love port moody to have some night life especially a pretty one :)

We recently moved to port moody and one thing we noticed immidiately is access to rockypoint park is kind of a hassel from other side of st John because there is only 2 over passes and both are pretty far from us. One more over pass between those 2 at Moody Skytrain station would be really helpful to pedestrians.

So far so good! I think it's great to have the goal to live up to our title of "City of the Arts" and to create employment opportunities around it. A few poor leaders ignored this title, opting for "city owned by developers" but there is so much promise in idea of what Port Moody can be with this restored vision of being an artistic hub with character, heritage sites, waterfront and green spaces for all to enjoy (appreciate the consideration given to the environment). Thank you for consulting the community and all your hard work.
Thank you

You need to build more pedestrian overpasses at the sky train stations along St Johns. Particularly at the Ioco 3 way. It is already a dangerous gong show and with all the development you have allowed, only going to get worse