July 21 was the last Langley City Council meeting before Council takes a break
for the month of August. Our next Council meeting will be on September 8th. In
previous posts, I wrote about the
200th Street watermain project
that Council approved a tender for, and Langley City’s
on-street parking and public parking lot management strategy. Today I’ll post about the remaining items addressed at the meeting.
David Pollock, who is the Director of Engineering, Parks, & Environment,
provided a brief update on the Fraser Highway One-Way Project. The project
remains on time and on budget. The new sidewalks and first layer of asphalt
will be completed before August 16, which is when the
Arts Alive Festival
takes place. At this point, people will be able to walk, roll, drive, and park
on the one-way.
The second (and final) layer of asphalt will be applied at the end of August.
Street trees and street furniture (chairs and tables) will be installed in the
first few weeks of September.
Council also gave final reading for rezoning the property at 20256-20272 54A
Avenue and issued a development permit for a 6-storey 114-unit apartment
building.
You can read more about this building
in a previous post.
Finally, Council approved the Langley School District’s Eligible School Sites
proposal. This is a rolling 5-year plan that outlines where the District plans
to allocate the School Site Acquisition Charge, a $600-$1000
development charge
applied to each new unit of housing in the City and Township. The District
submits an updated proposal annually.
The District estimates that, over the next decade, approximately 900 new
student spaces will be required in Langley City and 6,300 for the Township.
The current plan for the City is to accommodate these students in expanded
existing schools, as well as in expanded school and new school sites within
the Township. As such, the School Site Acquisition Charge collected in the
City and Township will be used to acquire new sites in the Township.
The City and School District are working together on identifying a potential
future school site within the City that may be necessary after the arrival of
SkyTrain. Council approved the Eligible School Sites proposal.