Board Meeting Highlights
May 30, 2005
The following information is intended to provide quick highlights of this scheduled Board meeting. Every attempt has been made to summarize these highlights as accurately as possible; however, the complete and official minutes will be posted on the web site on the Monday one week prior to the next scheduled Board meeting.
Meeting Agenda - May 30, 2005
CHAIR'S REPORT
At the 23rd annual Volunteers Award Banquet on May 26th, more than 35 volunteers were honoured and recognized for the vital role they play in the Park Board system.
STAFF REPORTS
Stanley Park
Ecology Society
The Board received for information the Ecology
Society's preliminary Vision for a Nature
Interpretation Centre in Stanley Park and approved
a recommendation to complete a study to develop
the site-specific options and financial models
for the project. In essence, the Society, now
housed in cramped quarters above the Stanley
Park Pavilion and in the small Nature House
on Lost Lagoon, would like expanded interpretive
facilities in a more central location nearer
to transit and other Park amenities to provide
higher visibility and better public access.
Last year the Ecology Society led over 11,000
Stanley Park visitors on discovery walks and
reached over 10,000 children through its ongoing
school program.
Sea Vancouver
Festival
A new event focussing on all things
nautical was approved unanimously. It will
include a tall ship display and numerous related
activities on and near Vancouver's beaches
at Kitsilano, Hadden, Vanier, Creekside and
Jericho Parks. The new Sea Vancouver Festival
will run from July 6 – 10 from 11 am
to 8 pm and feature festival zones primarily
positioned around the False Creek Basin to
Kits Beach and at Jericho Beach Park. Arts
and performances will be mixed with water-based
sports and regatta events. The Board emphasized
that the few "gated" events and
other public access restrictions be kept to
a minimum and ameliorated, where possible,
which organizers agreed to.
Park Development
Plan for 37th Avenue & Oak Street – Decision
Referred to June 13th
Over 35 delegations attended the Community
Board meeting to express their views on a
staff report which included a recommendation
and concept plan for the 11.23 hectare park
site located just south of Eric Hamber School
and across the street from VanDusen Botanical
Garden. The recommendation, the result of
extensive community consultation, allows
for mixed park use with 56% natural areas,
19% formal sports field area with 25% devoted
to community park, meadow and other areas.
Half of the delegations were heard by the
Park Board but the late hour prompted the
Board to refer the remaining delegations
to the next Park Board meeting scheduled
for June 13th.
NEXT MEETING
The next regular meeting of the Park Board is at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 13th at 2099 Beach Avenue.
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