Richmond Review, March 29, 2013

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City Centre would be split under proposed federal boundaries

Once Upon a Time shoots season finale

Downtown to be split down No. 3 Road, and Queensborough to go to New Westminster riding by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter

Philip Chin photo Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays Snow White/Mary Margaret, and Jennifer Morrison, who plays Snow White’s daughter, Emma Swan, pose for a photo (possibly taken by Prince Charming actor Josh Dallas) Tuesday during shooting aboard the tall ship Lady Washington (which is Captain Hook’s ship in the show) in Steveston of the hit ABC TV series, Once Upon a Time. According to a tweet from Goodwin, the show was shooting its season finale this week.

A name change, a radical realignment of the downtown core, and the loss of a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Lulu Island, are among the proposed changes to Lulu Island’s federal electoral districts. In a report that took into consideration the views from the public following an initial proposed boundary change, the electoral districts commission is now proposing further changes: to split downtown Richmond down the middle up to No. 3 Road and Westminster Highway, and make the Queensborough neighbourhood part of New Westminster, rather than Richmond East. “The renamed Steveston-Richmond East electoral district no longer includes any portion of the Corporation of Delta,” the report said on its website at redecoupage-federalredistribution.ca. “The electoral district of Richmond West now comprises the largely urban part of the City of Richmond.” The biggest change involves a major population swap in Downtown Richmond. After hearing residents of Queensborough stating their wishes to be part of the New West-Burnaby riding, the commission agreed to effectively do a six city block land swap that succeeds in balancing out the city’s population between the two Richmond ridings. Six big city blocks in the sector southeast of Westminster HIghway and No. 3 Road would help even out the population lost by Richmond East with Queensborough’s departure. But that would translate in splitting the heart of Richmond in half. Richmond-West would comprise the areas northwest of Francis Road and No. 3 Road, with the boundary running north on No. 3 Road from Francis, and then east along Westminster Highway up to No. 4 Road, and then north up No. 4 Road and then following Higway 99 north, and the portion to the west of Highway 99 and the Oak Street Bridge. See Page 6

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