Translation of "Plan d'aménagement des zones piétonnes " (French → English) :

Question No. 63 Mr. John Cummins: With regard to the expansion of the Roberts Bank Port Facility to include a third berth and a second terminal as per the Tsawwassen Final Agreement and related Side-Agreements, the Memorandum of Agreement between the Tsawwassen Band and the Vancouver Port Authority, and the related Settlement Agreement between the Tsawwassen Band, Canada, British Columbia (B.C.), Vancouver Port Authority, B.C. Ferry Services, B.C. Rail Ltd and B.C. Transportation and Financing Authority: (a) how many acres (or hectares) of farm land will be used for Roberts Bank port and rail related developments now underway or under study; (b) with the completion of the Roberts Bank port expansion, including both the third berth and second termi ...[+++]nal, what plans, if any, are there to use the Brunswick Point farmlands; (c) is the affected Roberts Bank farmland presently protected by the B.C. Agricultural Land Reserve designation; (d) does the Tsawwassen Final Agreement address the issue of farmland protection and if so, how; (e) will the farmland continue to be protected by the Agricultural Land Reserve designation following ratification of the Tsawwassen Final Agreement and, if not, why; (f) did the Vancouver Port Authority undertake to work jointly with the Tsawwassen Band to ensure the removal of the Agricultural Land Reserve designation from the farmland and, if so, why and what alternate measures did it put in place to protect farmland adjacent to the Roberts Bank port, rail and highway expansion; (g) did the Vancouver Port Authority agree to jointly develop with the Tsawwassen Band a container handling facility on the farmland protected by the B.C. Agricultural Land Reserve designation and, if so, why did the Vancouver Port Authority enter into such an agreement rather than develop container handling facilities further inland in a less environmentally sensitive area; (h) did the Vancouver Port Authority agree that the land would be leased at lease rates ...

Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) has systematically implemented a policy of mixed land use, high density along public transport corridors, rehabilitation of its historical districts, decentralisation of social services, balanced access to green spaces, the development of public transport, bicycle paths and pedestrian zones and other key principles of sustainable urban design and development such as investment in social programmes.

A network of "corridors" will be reserved for a quality bus service, pedestrian precincts and 60km of cycle tracks have been laid out and traffic has been organised to give priority to cyclists.

- 2 - The second set of measures is designed to diversify economic activity by promoting craft industry and very small enterprises (installation of common services, promotion schemes), by setting up small-scale industry estates, by developing workshop space for use by crafts and industry and by developing tourist potential through improved access to existing areas of water, automating and building up tourist advice facilities and better organization of tourism supply and advertising.

Certainly we came to a consensus resolution on the lower mainland protected areas plan.

In the former a project groups together more than sixty enterprises which have been particularly affected and are planning to restructure (aid for the construction or conversion of reception buildings and the development of business parks); enterprises will receive financial assistance, in particular to cover internal audits, and aids for creating or preserving jobs. In Alsace the project to convert the Lauterbourg-Scheibenhard hub envisages to develop and diversify the area's current activities into road transport services, tourism promotion and information services, facilities for new activities, etc. Most of the projects selected wer ...[+++]e put forward by enterprises or groups of enterprises.