Movers in Mary Hill who know the streets.

Mary Hill is Port Coquitlam's signature slope. The neighbourhood climbs south from downtown along Mary Hill Road, with Western Drive running through the centre as the main spine. The north edge sits near the CP rail corridor and the downtown core around Shaughnessy Street and Kingsway Avenue, while the south and west slopes fall steadily toward Highway 7B and the Fraser River. To the east the land drops toward the Pitt River flats. This topography defines everything about a move here. Crescent streets, sharp grades, and driveways that fall away from the sidewalk create a very different loading environment than the flat grids further north. Nash Moving knows the streets, the building stock, and the permit process. We scope the real address, plan the real access, and lock in one flat rate before we start.

The housing stock and suite access

Mary Hill is a detached-dominant neighbourhood that developed in the early nineteen sixties. The lots are large and the streets are lined with two-storey family homes. On the north edge you will find newer townhomes, but the bulk of the area holds postwar and seventies era houses built with basement entries. These homes often include ground-level suites, narrow interior stairs, and low headroom in the original stairwells. Many also feature side-yard access that lets crews work around a suite without disturbing the tenant. We measure the exact floor levels, check the hallway turns, and map the interior path at quote time. The flat rate covers the distance from the truck to your door, so the split-level carries and basement access are already factored in. You will not pay extra for stairs, narrow landings, or suite separation. We plan the move around the actual layout, not the street address.

Crescent streets and driveway grades

The geography here is not optional. Streets like Aire Crescent, Humber, Lamprey, and Scarborough curve around the hill and drop significantly from the curb to the front door. Driveways fall away from the street, and a truck that parks in the wrong spot ends up carrying uphill for the whole job. We stage the truck where the grade is manageable and the curb space is clear, then we move the load with disciplined interior routing. The flat rate includes the extra labour required to manage the slope, so the price you confirm before we arrive is the price you pay. Drive time is an input to your flat rate, never a meter. Call or text Nash Moving to lock in your quote, and we do not change the rate because the street drops away.

Landmarks we stage around

A few fixed points shape access on a Mary Hill move day. Mary Hill Elementary sits on Aire Crescent at Lobb Avenue, so bell times put slow traffic and parked cars on the crescents right where the grade is steepest. We book the loading window around them rather than fighting for the curb. Down the hill and north of downtown, Gates Park sits off Reeve Street on the Coquitlam River and has construction underway on site, which changes what parking is available nearby. Leigh Square Community Arts Village at 2253 Leigh Square Place, next to City Hall and Veterans Park, is the downtown event hub and the reason Thursday and Sunday afternoons behave differently from the rest of the week. Further down the south slope the land runs into Citadel and Citadel Heights, which are their own neighbourhoods with their own access patterns.

Street occupancy permits under Bylaw 4033

Port Coquitlam is its own city with its own rules, and the Coquitlam process next door does not apply here. Street occupancy on the hill is governed by Highway Use Bylaw No. 4033, and the permit is issued by the Engineer through Engineering and Public Works. If the truck or a container needs to occupy the road or close a traffic lane rather than sit legally at the curb, that is the permit you need.

Fees Bylaw 4415 sets the current schedule. A Highway Use Permit is $120 for the application plus $150 for the inspection. A road or lane closure is $120, and there is a dedicated road or lane closure fee for a moving container at $60. An overload or oversize vehicle permit is $60 per day. The Engineer also requires a security deposit and proof of insurance to the Engineer's satisfaction, and the city asks for fifteen working days to review an application, so this is not a same-week item.

Engineering and Public Works is the contact point at 604-927-5420 or engineering@portcoquitlam.ca. We tell you at booking whether your address and truck placement need a permit at all, which fees apply, and what the Engineer will want to see. If you are staging a moving container on the street rather than in the driveway, the container closure fee is the line to look at, and it needs the same lead time. The flat rate covers our coordination on the paperwork, so the street access is planned rather than improvised on the morning.

Traffic corridors and local events

Highway 7B, the Mary Hill Bypass, is a 7.27 km riverside east-west link running from the Cape Horn interchange with Highway 1 and Highway 7 in Coquitlam to Highway 7 in Port Coquitlam. It skirts the bottom of the south and west slopes rather than cutting through the neighbourhood, and it has signalized intersections at Shaughnessy Street, Pitt River Road, Broadway Street, and Kingsway Avenue. Those signals, not the bypass itself, are where a move-day drive gets held up. The old at-grade meeting with the Lougheed Highway is no longer a factor: it was rebuilt as an interchange in 2009 alongside the Pitt River Bridge replacement. Shaughnessy Street is the way into downtown and the West Coast Express station, and Kingsway Avenue is seeing active upgrade work in 2026, including a closed parkade entrance at the community centre. We time the drive around these corridors and put the slow windows to work as loading time.

Downtown, just north of the hill, also runs a steady event calendar. The Port Coquitlam Farmers Market sets up at Leigh Square and Veterans Park by City Hall on Thursdays from 3 to 7 pm with roughly sixty vendors. Music in the Square runs Sunday afternoons at Leigh Square, Car Free Day closes McAllister Avenue, and May Days brings a parade downtown in the spring. These events bring crowds and parked cars to nearby streets, which can limit curb space. We check the local calendar for your specific date and adjust the staging plan so the truck has room to load without blocking pedestrian traffic. Call or text Nash Moving for your flat-rate quote.