Attachment 13 - Exit Survey Correspondence

Exit Survey: 296 Eltham

To: "sinead@amarchitects.com" sinead@amarchitects.com Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:57 PM

Thanks for taking the time to share your vision with Lions Cove and other neighbours. Loved the donuts!

I strongly agree with items 1, 3, 4 and 5. For #2, I will choose neutral. I can see the advantages of having commercial at that location, much the same as the businesses across the street. However, I do see an opportunity for townhouses that you might make affordable so they are an entry point for young families, but I do not think 1600 sf is the right size and I hope you reconsider that, so that the units can be more affordable. In addition:

1. It is important to me that we move the dial toward a more diverse demographic in View Royal, particularly not focusing on an aging population. Do what is necessary to make family homes affordable, which in this case, might mean reducing parking, recognizing that would be a condition of ownership in the building...a 1 car family, with plenty of other transportation options. Please encourage BC Transit to improve route 46 service to westshore to be all day service. Do young families have two cars? Some choose not to drive at all.
2. I also think some units with smaller square footage might be entry points for people, if it reduces the buying price...maybe those units don't have more than 1 parking stall? Maybe those units would have rent ceilings if being purchased as an investment property.
3. Please no gas to the building. Abide by the provincial principle of zero carbon step code (ZCSC) whether or not the town has mandated it
4. Please protect any trees that you can, even if it is a little difficult
5. Please provide adequate secure bicycle storage, including space for extended bikes for cargo bikes and kid extensions.
6. Please provide adequate storage for trash and recycling. If a strata is saving milk jugs, pop and alcohol refundables, the Bottle Depot will facilitate that, but they require space to establish two 4x4 receptacles to access with pallet jack, if the strata wants them to pick it up. Also, soft plastics and styrofoam, to say nothing of the required food waste as all these items are banned from the landfill. Usually residents take their items to London Drugs, but sometimes there are champions in the complex that will collect and take it, but it has to be approved to be store somewhere to accomplish that
7. Try again to incorporate car-share...couldn't it be combined with the Royale? Couldn't Lions Cove and Ashley Gate participate?
8. Explore the roundabout option...it might be too close to the light at the corner of Isl Hwy and Helmcken, causing a backup within the circle at certain times. Definitely make the right hand turn from Isl Hwy to Helmcken a hard right. Please require the town to do a traffic study that includes all new construction impact from the westshore that might come through on Island Hwy.
9. Finally, for Lions Cove consider the impact to residents of Ashley Gate and Lions Cove as they attempt to go East on Island Highway. It will be difficult to cross traffic to go left on Helmcken, particularly at peak times. It is not advisable to come out on Eltham and turn right to use roundabout below the E&N bridge, because that would unreasonably increase traffic through the school zone down and back up again. At this time, with the lane configuration on Island Highway at our SE corner (between us and the Daycare on Isl Hwy), we can R in and R out, heading West on Isl Hwy. Eltham exit allows us to exit left and left again to go East on Isl Hwy. More efficient would be a turn lane on Isl Hwy at our SE corner, removal of the restrictive Island, traffic calming effort on Isl Hwy on the downhill heading west so we can cross traffic to go left. All this construction could create quite a bottleneck when factored together. Your residents and store customers in the Royale will also encounter a difficult time egressing to go left on Helmcken without a middle turn lane on Helmcken. Is that a possibility? We need you to advocate for a solution with the town of View Royal to arrive at a solution for traffic flow for all the construction they are approving. Also of consideration would be the possible relocation of the sliding gate located at our E corner. It might be better placed preventing access to and from Eltham. Where it is now, is LC property and only accessed by Lions Cove. The entrance at Eltham is Ashley Gate property. I'm sure you and the town engineers can think of some solutions to this.

That is all I can think of at the moment. I do want to thank you for going the extra mile with the grocery store tenant. Please consider your refrigeration components to be climate friendly as you build out that aspect. I know you want to be a green dot for a sustainable market:

https://www.climatefriendlysupermarkets.org/map

Thank you for this opportunity to provide my thoughts