Richmond Review, April 01, 2015

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Name game for new Labour Day festival at Minoru Park continues by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter Cultural community groups will now get their say on the name of a future multicultural festival in Minoru Park. In March city council approved $170,000 in funding for a new Labour Day weekend festival tentatively titled the Richmond World Block Party. But not everyone on council was sold on the name. To the drawing board city staff went, drafting a list of alternative names, and Katie Lawrence photo recommending “Lulubaloo – Richmond Friends Nicholas Sahl and Liam Robillard took a turn on Tornado. West Coast Amusements is back in Richmond with its annual Spring Break fair at World Festival” for the day-long party. Lansdowne Centre. For more photos, see page 23. But that name also proved divisive. Last week a council committee defeated the idea on a tie vote, with Mayor Malcolm Brodie and Couns. Carol Day and Bill McNulty opposed. The name game is now back in the hands of city staff for review. Councilcillor who hopes to close a loop- no longer permit three-storey while staying within the maxilors have tasked staff with consulting hole that has allowed houses to houses in zones that only allow mum height of nine metres (29.5 cultural community groups for input. be built a half-storey higher than for two-and-a-half storeys. feet). The festival, scheduled for Saturday, Flat roofs will now only be perthe city intended. Homebuilders have been using Sept. 5, will have a multicultural focus. “Somebody pretty smart has existing regulations to the full- mitted if the roof area doesn’t Planned are entertainment acts, a few gone out to reinterpret our by- est, including maximizing floor contain a habitable half-storey. dozen food trucks, a chef showcase and laws,” said Coun. Harold Steves. area and adding an allowable The same applies to gambrel dea sports zone featuring the world’s less“Hopefully we’re closing the half-storey on top of the bottom signs common to barns. er-known athletic pursuits. door on the three-storey hous- two floors. The city had intended Other changes include addiby Matthew Hoekstra 200+ City planners, who aim to court spones.” this half storey to be concealed tional setbacks for half-storey VEHICLES, MANYsors to boost the budget by another Staff Reporter City council voted unani- inside a pitched roof—but more areas and prohibiting decks on UNRESERVED! $75,000, estimate the festival could They’re not only big, they’re mously last week to tighten builders are using a flat roof to the upper half-storey. draw over 40,000 people. ugly, according to one city coun- Richmond’s zoning bylaw and effectively create a third floor See Page 3

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