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cA Plan for The City of VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from City of Vancouver Archives http://www.archive.org/details/vancplanincgenOOvanc A PLAN FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA INCLUDING A GENERAL PLAN OF THE REGION 1928 V««,v-i8C Price, S2.00 "Y\7E MUST ma\e Plans; who loo\s not before, finds himself behind." — Publilius Syrus, 44 B. C. w > D O z < > VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL 1928 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA Mayor, Louis D. Tavlor Aldermen E. W. Dean H. E. Almond P. C. Gibbens John Bennett J. A. Garbutt R. J. Paul F. E. Woodside Angus McInnis City Officials City Engineer Chas. Brakenridge City Comptroller A. J. Pilkington City Clerk Wm. McQueen VANCOUVER TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION Members Arthur G. Smith, Chairman Mrs. A. M. McGovern J. W. Allan W. Elgie Bland W. A. Clark W. Deptford A. E. Foreman G. L. Thornton Sharp W. G. Swan Ex-Officio Members Mayor of the City of Vancouver Mayor Louis D. Tavlor Chairman, Vancouver and Districts Joint Sewerage and Drainage Board .... E. A. Cleveland Chairman, Board of School Trustees. Jas. Blackwood Chairman, Board of Park Commissioners. ....E. G. Bavnes Chairman, Vancouver Harbour Commissioners F. R. McD. Russell Secretary, J. Alexander Walker POINT GREY TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION Members Frank E. Buck, Chairman Newton J. Ker G. L. Thornton Sharp B. A. Cunliffe H. C. Green Mrs. R. P. Steeves Ex-Officio Members Reeve of the Municipality of Point Grey W. H. Lembkf. Chairman, Board of Parks Commissioners .... T. Bate Chairman, Board of School Trustees S. Ross Secretary, Hector S. Cowper TOWN PLANNING CONSULTANTS Harland Bartholomew and Associates Harland Bartholomew L. Deming Tilton Earl O. Mills Wm. D. Hudson Resident Engineer Horace L. Seymour Staff, Vancouver A. R. MacKenzie J. F. 1). Tanqueray H. A. E. Browne Miss Ethel W. H. Clarkson Staff, Point Grey John Ki.i.iott [7] VANCOUVER TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION List of Committees STREETS and TRANSIT A. E. Foreman, Chairman W. Deptford Mrs. A. M. McGovern HARBOUR and TRANSPORTATION W. G. Swan, Chairman W. A. Clark B. G. Hansuld ZONING J. W. Allan, Chairman W. Elgie Bland E. A. Cleveland PUBLIC RECREATION and CIVIC ART G. L. Thornton Sharp, Chairman Jas. Blackwood E. G. Bavnes 9] HARLAND BARTHOLOMEW AND ASSOCIATES CITY PLAN AND LANDSCAPE ENGINEERS HARLAND BARTHOLOMEW LI DFMINC, TI! TOM SAINT LOUIS, ' EARL O. MILLS MISSOURI WML D HUMON 317 NORTH ELEVENTH STREET December 28, 1928. Town Planning Commission, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Gentlemen: On August 2nd, 1926, we entered into an agreement for the preparation of a "Compre- hensive Town Plan tor the City of Vancouver and a Regional Plan of the contiguous or adjacent territory." It is with great pleasure we now submit such a Plan. Few cities possess such a combination of nearby natural resources, a splendid harbour, a terrain ideally suited for urban use, an equable climate and a setting of great natural beauty. Vancouver is the most important Pacific port of a great country. Here, if anywhere, should develop a great city. Circumstances of such character call for a city plan of substantial scale. In the plan submitted herewith, a future growth of approximately one million persons has been anticipated. When that population has been reached, a new and larger plan will become necessary. A smaller plan would be unworthy, and, at best, a poor expedient. A larger plan would be more or less difficult for present adoption and realization. This plan is complete in detail as regards the City of Vancouver. Under the auspices of the Municipality ot Point Grey, a plan more or less complete in detail has been prepared and adopted tor that area and is reproduced in part here. It now becomes the duty ot the Town Planning Commission to guard jealously the integrity ot this plan, to make minor adjustments as detailed surveys and changing conditions make necessary, and to expand it into newly acquired areas such as that of South Vancouver. The Burrard Peninsula is an area ot natural physical unity. It should be developed as a unit. The arbitrary political boundaries and jurisdictions dividing it are apt to become responsible tor physical maladjustments. The amalgamation of the Vancouver, Point Grey and South Vancouver districts on January 1st, 1929, despite administrative difficulties encountered, is fundamentally sound. The Town Planning Commission should solicit and encourage unification ot planning in the remaining areas of the Peninsula, Burnaby and New Westminster, already anticipated in this plan in the form of regional studies of major highways, parks, parkways, transit and transportation. [10] The preparation of this plan has been a pleasant task. The uniform courtesy and consideration shown the members of our staff by the individual members of your Com- mission, the numerous city officials from whom we have secured detailed information and assistance, by public utility officials and the press, is gratefully acknowledged. Especially would we acknowledge the services of the several committees of the Commission, whose names appear upon another page. To these committees have been submitted our various preliminary reports. Under the wise guidance of the chairmen, and through the painstaking efforts of the individual members of these committees, the several pre- liminary plans have been studied, revised and welded into this final plan that is infinitely the better therefor. The preparation of the plan has been a new experience for Vancouver. It has con- centrated thought upon the great possibilities and opportunities confronting this city. May we be permitted to express the hope that this will be the beginning of a closer harmony of interest, thought, consideration and action among all those groups, which, collectively, have made the city what it now is and what it will become. It is men, and not plans, that make the city. Plans such as this are the means of bringing men's minds together for concerted action. Respectfully submitted, HARLAND BARTHOLOMEW AND ASSOCIATES, — : VANCOUVER TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION ERRATA In the Commission's Report, "A Plan for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia," there are a few minor errors, chiefly typographical ; the follow- ing, however, should be noted Page 35, paragraph 7, line 3, read "Granville" for "Hastings." Page 39, paragraph 3, line 6, read "Chart 3" for "Chart 4." Page 44, Plate 7, "Twelfth Avenue," read "80-6" for "100-8," on plan. Page 54, caption, read "North and South Streets from West to East (South of False Creek)" for "East and West Streets from the Waterfront." Page 82, caption, read "East and West Streets (from North to South)" for "North and South Streets (from West to East)." Page 84, insert caption, "East and West Streets (from North to South)." Page 91, paragraph 8, line 5, read "page 133" for "page 123." Page 101, paragraph 1, line 2, read "page 114" for "page 60." Page 169, paragraph 4, line 2, read "MacDonald Park" for "Prince Edward Park" (name changed upon amalgamation). Page 169, paragraph 5, line 2, delete the words "Like Vancouver proper." Page 169, paragraph 6, tabulation under "Per Acre Valuation" For South Vancouver, "3320" read "3,300" For Vancouver "2210" read "22,100" Page 173, paragraph 2, for lines 6 and 7, read "A modern elementary school of this size is incom- plete without an adequate playground, serving all the recreational needs of the children of the district." Page 249, top of page, delete "Part III." Page 277, definition 8, line 3, read "meals" for "means." Page 278, definition 30, line 2, read "plates" for "places." Kindly Insert This Slip in Your Copy of Report CONTENTS Page Illustrations 10 Letter ot Transmittal. 19 Chairman's Introduction MAJOR STREET REPORT. 27 Introductory 27 The Growth ot Vancouver... 28 -'> Population 30 31 Building Permits 32 Streets 31 Paved and Areas Served by Sewers and Water. 34 33 Present and Future Traffic -56 35 Traffic Count... 36 39 Standard for Modern Street Development 38 41 Contours and Street Grades .... 40 43 Street Widths, Jogs and Dead Ends... 42 43 Major Streets Arterial Highways, Regional Major Streets for Region (including arterials) 44 45 A Major Street Plan for City of Vancouver 46 47 Index to Vancouver Major Streets 48 Tabulation of Proposed Major Streets, Vancouver 58 Major Street Capacities 46 58 Evolution of Major Street Plan <;9 58 Business District 60 61 Street Improvements; Distributor Street 60 61 Parking Regulations 63-69 Major Street Corrections. 62-68 69 Hastings Townsite Replotting 70 73 Point Grey Replotting .". 74 77 Index to Point Grey Major Streets 76 78 Tabulation ot Proposed Major Streets, Point Grey TRANSIT REPORT. 86 Introduction 87 Immediate Recommendations... 89 Street Car Tracks; Growth by Decades 88 91 Population Growth and Street Car Mileage 90 91 Growth of Transit Lines During Last Decade 90 93 Present Population and Ground Slopes 92 95 Future Population 94 97 Present Car Lines; Areas Served and Population 96 99 Present Time Zones 98 101 Car Flow on Existing Streets 100 103 Traffic Flow at Congested Intersections 102 104 Summary of Transit Data 107 Present Transit Routes in Central Business District 106 109 Proposed Transit Routes in Central Business District 108 111 Present Car Flow in Central Business District 1 10 113 Proposed Car Flow in Central Business District. Immediate Plan... 112 PART I. — Immediate Changes Recommended. 1 14 Summary or Suggested Changes for Immediate Adoption: 114 1. Broadway Cross-Town Line 114 2. Routes 2,3, 5 1 14 3. Route 4. 1 14 4. RouteS —— 14 A PLAN FOR VANCOUVER Page Illustrations i 14 5. Route 1 1 (A) ... 6. Route 12 11 Clearance s Curves 115 Types of Cars IK Skip Stops and One-Man Cars >>5 Ticket Takers on Streets "5 Wyes and Cross-Overs "7 Proposed Track Plan in Central Business District 116 PART II.