Maple Ridge News, November 06, 2015

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Municipal: AGM for Pitt Meeadow ws airport put off again. 5

Remembrance Day: Pick a local ceremony. 12

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Ridge to add amenity rec fees Developers to pay for new parks and fields By Phil M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com

Maple Ridge wants more money from developers and builders so its residents can have more parks and playgrounds, community places and space to run around. It hopes to do that by tapping into the profit realized when property is rezoned, redeveloped and resold, in what’s known as a community amenity contribution. Council told staff Oct. 27 to come up with a policy that will charge developers a percentage of the increased value of a property that results from development. That extra cash then will pay for some extras in a new neighbourhood.

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Chummy Sophie Smith of ARMS inspects one of the thousands of chum salmon that have returned to the south Alouette River. Sockanee are not as bountiful. Story, 8.

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Pitt and PoCo looking to partner Western neighbour may provide garbage pick-up By Neil Corbett ncorbett@mapleridgenews.com

With the relationship between Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows strained, the latter Pitt Meadows is looking to partner with Port Coquitlam, at least on garbage collection. PoCo will be bidding on the garbage collection contract for Pitt

Meadows when it goes to a request for proposals later this month, and the two cities are looking for other areas where they might cooperate. “We look at it as a service we have expertise in delivering,” said PoCo Mayor Greg Moore, confirming his city intends to jump in once the RFP is announced. This comes as Maple Ridge served Pitt Meadows with what Coun. Tracy Miyashita called “divorce papers,” announcing that their long cooperation in parks and recreation would come to an end in

October 2016. That was followed by Ridge announcing it would also pull its share of funding out of Tourism Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows. There has also been controversy over the Pitt Meadows airport, with Pitt council asking Ridge Becker to bow out, leaving Pitt Meadows with sole custody. Traditionally, PoCo has gravitated toward Coquitlam and Port Moody

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for partners in providing municipal services, said Moore. But the election of John Becker and a new council now has PoCo increasingly looking at Pitt Meadows as a potential partner. Approximately six weeks ago, Moore’s council hosted Becker and his council for a dinner at PoCo City Hall, and they discussed areas of common interest. They went over plans for PoCo’s new $100 million

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