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LAND USE
MOSQUITO CREEK
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Municipalities define land by the way each portion of land is used or is allowed to be used.
Certain types of buildings or activities are permitted according to designation or zone. Zoning can be changed by council decision.
Land use can have an impact on hydrology in the watershed. The percentage of permeable land relates to runoff rates and water levels in the creeks.
- Mosquito Creek Park Neighbourhood Survey ---- stream bank
Mosquito Creek Neighbourhood Association
1995 - 1996
Voluntary
Public opinion survey.
Mosquito Creek.
The fate of a parcel of forested city-owned land next to Mosquito Creek Park was always uncertain. In 1994, the land and adjacent private property became the subject of a development study, discontinued in 1995. While the study was still underway, neighbourhood residents began a public opinion survey on various land use options for the site. The survey was completed in 1995, and the results were presented to City of North Vancouver council in 1996. 1065 questionnaires were returned, representing over 70% of all households in the neighbourhood. Of those, 93% supported rezoning the forested city-owned land to park land, and 85% supported only single-family or park zoning for the private properties.
In 1999, the city-owned land was rezoned to park land, becoming part of Mosquito Creek Park. In 1999, the Fell Channel Salmon Habitat Restoration Project was constructed on the site.
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