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Avery Sussex scores 23 points in win over Walnut Grove

KYLE BALZER kbalzer@tricitynews.com

The Riverside Rapids are champions, at last While the road to re- demption is never easy, the journey paid off when the Port Coquitlam school’s senior girls basketball team won its first B C AAAA provincial championship after it defeated the top-ranked Walnut Grove Gators, 70-52, in last Saturday’s final at the Langley Events Centre

The Rapids, which went into the tournament as its third seed, used the disappointment of losing last year’s championship final to cross-town rival Terry Fox Ravens, and this year’s District final to the Burnaby Central Wildcats to fuel its run to the top

“It was all about last year,” an emotional Avery Sussex told the Tri-City News in the middle of a raucous cele- bration of players, family, friends and fellow students after the team’s win.

“We needed a banner We can’t go one whole season without a banner It was a full-on team victory The energy was everything”

Sussex scored a teamhigh 23 points in the final

The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (OCP) relating to the properties located at 3411, 3415, 3421 and 3435 Galloway Avenue. The application proposes an amendment to the land use designation of the subject properties from School/Park and Street Oriented Village Homes to Conventional Townhomes, Small Village Single Family, Neighbourhood Parks and Natural Open Spaces, and Environmentally Sensitive Area as well as a shift of the north-south Nature Trail located on 3435 Galloway Avenue to an Urban Multi-Use Trail located along the east side of the proposed Soball Street.

The OCP amendment is accompanied by a rezoning application from RS-2 OneFamily Suburban Residential to RS-7 Small Village Single Family Residential, RT-2 Townhouse Residential, and P-5 Special Park; a subdivision to create one townhouse lot, five duplex lots, 29 single family lots, and environmentally sensitive area dedication to the City; and Development Permits for a 92-unit townhouse development, five duplexes, and watercourse protection.

If approved, the applications would facilitate the development of a total of 131 dwelling units

You are invited to provide input to Council with respect to the above-noted application.

The City of Coquitlam will be receiving input up to March 27, 2023. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways:

• Email: clerks@coquitlam ca with “Section 475 – PROJ 22-067” in the subject line;

• Regular mail: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2;

• In person: Attn: City Clerk’s Office – please place in one of two City Hall drop boxes (3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam), located at the underground parking entrance or by the main entrance facing Burlington Drive;

• Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015

Additional information about this application can be accessed by contacting Carman Yeung, Planning and Development Department, at CYeung@coquitlam.ca.

Written submissions provided in response to this consultation, including names and addresses, will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall (at the Planning and Development counter) and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam.ca/agendas.

Should Council decide to approve this application going to a Public Hearing, notification for the hearing will be completed in accordance with the Local Government Act.