Transit and OCP Changes on Council Agenda
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The change, if approved, would clear the way for the property to be developed by Woody’s RV sales.
Council will get an update on Transit including plans for two new shelters, and be asked to approve the annual agreement for the operation of the transit service. The agreement for conventional transit ( fixed route vehicles) will cost the City an extra $265 thousand dollars between now and March 31st of 2016. That increase includes increases in wages, inflation and fuel prices. The custom community transit service will see the City responsible for an extra $10,464 dollars, or 1.8% more.
The Prince George Global Logistics Park is looking to recoup some of the more than $6 million dollars paid to develop infrastructure for Boundary Road. Council will be asked to enter into a special agreement where Development cost charges collected from developers who purchase any of the parcels within the Prince George Logistics Park, would flow through to the Logistics Park owner. The City would keep a 1% administration fee, and the P.G. Global Logistics Park would pay the City $10 thousand dollars to cover legal fees once the agreement is signed.
Delegations scheduled to appear include the Prince George Naturalists Society which will present an update on the Hudson’s Bay Wetland Project. The group will also ask that the park be renamed the Hudson’s Bay Wetland Nature Park.
Pittman Asphalt will also be appearing before Council requesting permission to cut a block of trees on its property. The company says the trees have fallen victim to the mountain pine beetle and are causing a fire hazard. The company says the location of the cut would not cause any significant impact to hillside views.
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Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you, another developer wants to take advantage of the cheaper residential properties and rezone them as commercial instead of just buying commercial.
Lets face it, Wood’s would be a good thing. We already have other commercial property across the road.
The Prince George Logistics Park is on the North End of the Boundry Road cut off. I have not seen any evidence of any commercial development since this park was created. (Lots of activity on the South end)
In any event when it was created they had a deal with the City in regards to development, who pays for what, etc;. Seems they now want to change the rules. They made a business decision, which at the time was supposedly going to make them a lot of money. Why should the City change the rules for this developer and not others??? That is the question.
I had a conversation with a man who required the property he wished to develop on required rezoning.
The entire neighborhood signed a petition against this proposed rezoning.
The end result–the developer got exactly what he wanted, with an exceptional condition that no other development with that C6 zoning could go into competition against him. Pretty nice deal–but then Planning can do whatever they choose??? No holds barred re power.
I asked the man, What did all of this cost you.”
His reply was, “A LOT OF MONEY!!”
He did not disclose the amount–but I knew I had been given an honest answer.
Who received the “LOT OF MONEY?”
Did the city of Prince George play fair with the neighborhoods petition against the development???
I suppose one must assume the deeper the pockets–the guarantee of a successful application for rezoning of property at Planning can be a “given.”
Honesty, integrity–or the abuse of power—-the abuse is a sure winner–honesty and integrity—-remove those words from Prince George City Hall.
MONEY TALKS—-that is made loud and clear.
Well, maybe not–the Haldi road people surely held their ground–but for how long?? Somebody will surely seek “revenge.”
“The Prince George Global Logistics Park is looking to recoup some of the more than $6 million dollars paid to develop infrastructure for Boundary Road.”
Anyone else having a hard time tracking down how many millions of total dollars it has cost to develop this “field of dreams” global logistics park? Three (3) thousand acres, with a selling price of $223,000 per acre = no sales in a stagnant market. Now they are seeking more concessions from a city council that should just walk away and let this pathetic, pie-in-the-sky, endeavour sink or swim.
Every time I take a drive down Boundary Road I am often the only vehicle on that brand spanking newly paved stretch of road. Sometimes it makes me feel like I am driving into a post -apocalyptic world, where I am the only living human being on the planet. This Prince George Global Logistics Park, along with the airport runway expansion, will be the white elephant symbol of over-reaching business community speculation and greed for decades to come.
One only has to watch council meetings and they will no longer wonder why this city has remained stagnant for well over 40 years.
The payroll to these city hall employees is excessive, and I feel we have too many chiefs on the payroll. At great expense. And no progress.
Watch them approve new subdivisions and change the OCP knowing full well they will be unable to accommodate the cost for repairs and maintenance to the existing infrastructure but they are oblivious to that fact.
Yes, they thrive on the “pie in the sky” pipedreams.
Photo ops and T V exposure and positive press–all must be complimentary and often repeated.
The airport runway was, and is, an absolute bust. The only way to get planes to land would be to PAY them. That Boundary Road Logistics Park–one must not hold their breath waiting for the white elephant scenario to turn tail and disappear.
All this high end speculation–does it not make one disillusioned when we look at the same old, same old???
Prince George will continue to go “nowhere”, just like always!
I thought it was the Hudson’s Bay Slough, at least that is what we called it when I lived in the area in the 90s
Never did understand a airport logistics park that you can’t get to from the airport… a park that is quicker to get to from the airport the old way than trying to find a spankin’ new road somewhere behind the airport.
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