Plan for Former Greenhouse Site Moves Forward
Monday, March 18, 2013 @ 8:15 PM
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Image of how corner may be developed. Green area remains buffer zone, blue area, could be home to retail, and red zone is rear of property.
Prince George, B.C.- An application to amend the Official Community Plan to allow for a development at the Old Cariboo Highway and Giscome Road was not well received by Councillor Cameron Stolz. He said he didn’t support the application as in his mind, it was too large, with a footprint the size of WalMart.
The comments were made during a public hearing on the application.
Councillors Skakun and Albert Koehler both supported the project, which would see the Giscome Road section rezoned to allow for some commercial activity such as a restaurant, retail, liquor store, health service, building and garden supply. The rear of the property would be zoned for things like, a car wash, animal shelter, recycling centre, vehicle repair minor, veterinary service, warehousing or storage.
A neighbour expressed concern over the possibility of increased traffic, and said residential neighbours were being squeezed out, with the Ritchie Brothers Auction site to the north, and this development to the south. She also noted the requirement that only neighbours within 30 meters of the subject property need to be advised of the proposed change is not realistic as it means hers would be the only property that qualified for that kind of notification.
Councillor Stolz was the sole dissenter and the application has passed third reading.
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The lone rural neighbour who spoke to this was also the only resident contacted in accordance the OCP Amendment plan checklist in regards to the 30 meters of the subject property.
So it is obvious that there should be different standards for notification.
I remember years ago the sign in front of that place said “Bedding and Pot Plants”. Never did go in and ask…..
Good! I’m glad someone is finally gonna clean this eyesore up.
They should of said no! You have to spend the money downtown.
Acting Mayor Stolz didn’t support the application because of his financial concerns to the city in regards to past $$ being spent on other neighborhood developments and the Boundry Road ???? What was he babling about? Anybody?
Whats with the3 largest buildings in the drawing ? Is Jordy going to get a taxi-way put in and store 747’s in these ?
Does anybody see a pattern here?….I mean the big money is going every where but downtown…this development is only going to bleed the city core more….we as tax payers send all kinds of money to city hall to redevelop downtown and big projects like this keep missing the runway…I mean what gives? Does anyone at City Hall have a clue? It appears that opportunities keep taking off…and the aging downtown….to an unknown destiny… -:(
And so begins the next city within the city of Prince George. I thought we learned our lesson with the Hart.
The airport struggles because they cannot find people to work the entry level jobs and still afford the commute. The neighborhood there is still very spread out. Transit is not an option from in town. This is only going to make this problem worse. All of the business in this proposal – restaurnat, retail, car wash, shelter – rely on minimum wage labour. They are out of their minds. I thought we had a team of crack economic thinkers on council?
This is a great idea. There are a lot of rural residents that dont want to drive into the cesspool for everything.
What is the purpose of the OCP? Why bother having it?
Every friend to this council that wants to do some development, the OCP amendments get rubber stamped.
If council don’t like you, the block you and say it is against the OCP. It is not always about the money. Some serious developers tried to come in with all of the financing in place to be turned away or left frustrated.
This council have no problems in developing every part of the city, but downtown.
The more this city expands outward, the more it will cost the city for services that they have to pay for.
“red zone is rear of property”
What does that mean?
That drawing looks like a kid drew it. Totally out of proportion.
Hello storage units? No business that relies on daily transactions would survive at that location.
This is just goes to prove the point that businesses don’t want to locate downtown. The proposal has a far better chance of being an economic success on the out skirts of PG than being forced to enter the cesspool of downtown PG.
I see no problem with developers footing the bill to bring services to a part of the city that has none.
Eagleone,
They do have services
Posted by: NoWay on March 18 2013 9:25 PM
They should of said no! You have to spend the money downtown.
Spend money downtown. I wouldn’t touch downtown with a 10 foot pole.
“Posted by: Cheetos on March 18 2013 9:48 PM
Does anybody see a pattern here?….I mean the big money is going every where but downtown…this development is only going to bleed the city core more….we as tax payers send all kinds of money to city hall to redevelop downtown and big projects like this keep missing the runway…I mean what gives? Does anyone at City Hall have a clue? It appears that opportunities keep taking off…and the aging downtown….to an unknown destiny… -:( “
My vote is to stop wasting my money on downtown.
“They do have services” .. as far as I know, pineview doesn’t have water or sewer. Most areas are shared wells and lagoons.
Nice to see comercial proposal in Blackburn area. This may attract more residential development in the area.
Why put commercial development that encourages residential development in a rural area?
The BCR is rife with empty “commercial” properties as is the Carter industrial, and they have expanded many residential areas of town, to the detriment of services.
The more spread out the town is, the more costly it is to service things like snow removal.
Loki, the BCR is an industrial site not a commercial center. Any commercial buildings that are there were established to service the clientele of the area. There are many people that already live in the area of this proposal. It makes perfect sense to try and take advantage of that. That corner is a high traffic area and is perfect for a rural commercial area. Or it could be left as an abandoned greenhouse and benefit nobody. I’m sure you’d like that better.
Loki said “The BCR is rife with empty “commercial” properties as is the Carter industrial”. The Carter area is pretty much full. I think there are 2 empty buildings for sale (overpriced). Other than that, there is no where in this town for anyone to build on light industrial lots. It is like the city is “forcing” new light industrial building out to the new airport area.
Great idea.
“Other than that, there is no where in this town for anyone to build on light industrial lots.”
People keep forgetting about the East Queensway area downtown. The city should come up with a conversion plan to fill the land to above flood plain and create a more pleasant and modern, state of the art, light industrial park there.
Instead of coming uo with neighbourhood plans for a perfectly good PG golf and curling club, City Planning should be doing that kind of work.
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