Dog Boarding and Daycare Facility Proposed for Haldi Rd Property
Prince George, B.C. – 250News has learned of the proposal for the old Haldi Road School on Leslie Road.
Realtor Don Kehler says it’s for a high quality dog boarding and daycare facility. He calls the proposal “innocuous” considering one of the issues with previous proposals had been related to water use on the site.
He says a public information session is in the works for area residents, likely at Vanway Elementary in the near future.
The property would also have to be rezoned for the proposed development.
Ian Wells, planning and development general manager at the City of Prince George, says three spokespeople for the neighbourhood have already been consulted on the plan.
The Haldi Road School was the centre of a controversy when the previous owners hoped to use the site for a therapeutic community for women, similar to the programs offered at Baldy Hughes for men. Area residents challenged the rezoning and changes to the Official community plan, taking the City to court over the matter, saying therapeutic community did not fall within the designation of ‘rural residential’. While area residents won that battle, they lost the war when the City made changes to the Official Community Plan to allow special needs or transitional supportive housing in all residential areas, including those zoned rural residential.
The Haldi area has some challenges when it comes to water supply and neighbours had also argued the proposed therapeutic community would put extra stress on existing water supply. At the time, the therapeutic community proponents agreed to truck in water, and placed a covenant on the property, preventing the use of the well that exists on the property. As the proposed use for the property has changed significantly, it is expected the new owners would ask that the covenant be removed.
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Dogs make a lot more noise then chickens.
You got that right. My hood is full of inconsiderate neighbors.
Yeah, I agree, two dogs next door bark at everything that walks by, then the owner comes out and barks at the dogs, it’s hilarious. Sad thing is, these dogs never leave the yard, they have not been socialized at all, one’s a fear biter. All they have to do is get off their butts, get some training, take the poor dogs for a walk, but nope, she’s still barking at her dogs.
Call it what it was. The Haldi neighborhood is a conservative/religious enclave that looks down upon ‘problem women’ that ‘abuse’ drugs/alcohol. That is the core reason why they voted so strongly against it. If the proposal was to have a massive church built on that site with onsite residents no-one from the Haldi neighborhood would have ever had any problem with it. Pure NIMBYism at its finest.
Interesting viewpoint Summit, but I’m pretty sure the Haldi residents opposed the women’s treatment center due to disrespectful engagement from the proponent, complete nonsense from City Hall and the Mayors office, infrastructure concerns and a horrible business plan!
What is wrong with you Summit ? you are no GOOD !!! go back to your hole in ground
What a uneducated remark , Commonsence . You should change your name..
Agree with you commonsence.
Or… maybe they don’t like the elementary school in the neighborhood was being re-purposed for troubled individuals without any consultation. I’m not conservative or religious but I wouldn’t be too pleased if the elementary school near by was suddenly a rehab center. Very different impact on an area.
Its to close to home for some out there…they can walk for treatment…and be home for dinner!
Summit: You must not care about making yourself look like a complete donkey let alone misinformed. Maybe go back into the archives and dig out information. If you don’t know how, maybe some can hold your hand.
HAHAHA LOL I just about fell out of my chair after reading this. You sure don’t know many people in the area do you.
Your bullying by name calling won’t work lol
Talking about Summit lol
What an excellent use for the property. I hope they offer dog training as well. I have a puppy that would love to go there!
I’m afraid you are right, Summit.
Nothing better than the constant barking of dogs to make someone’s day. Better than a quiet treatment center.
X2 on the unlovely sound of dogs barking at random all hours.
As to the previous usage proposal, I would have thought that the main reason not to have an addiction treatment facility in a residential neighbourhood would be the probability of unsavoury characters hanging around, driving by, skulking in the bushes.
I visited someone once at an addiction treatment facility in Mission.
That place is at the end of a quiet country road, all of the properties in that area are small acreages with family homes, eg. a residential neighbourhood almost identical to Haldi Lake Road and area.
The person I was visiting told me that drug dealers would come out every night, park their cars in the bushes just off the end of the road, 50 yards from the facility.
Indeed, while we were there, I observed several ‘patients’ sneak around the manned guard hut at the front gate, disappear into the bushes, only to return a few minutes later and go back into the bunk house.
I would assume that this is common around any addiction treatment centre, and that Haldi Road and area would see an increase in traffic every night, year round.
As far as I know, the clients of most of those type of facilities are there voluntarily, thus not ‘locked down’ at night.
Other than the water issue, the unwanted addional traffic would be the main reason I would not want such a facility to be housed in that neighbourhood.
metalman.
The Haldi road treatment centre idea was bogus. It was more about the property than it was about treatment.
Some of you will recall all the concern about addicted women etc and how we needed this facility asap. After they got the zoning, they were good to go, so why did they not build the centre??
They are no longer interested in building the treatment centre, nor do we hear anything from all those who were involved. Does this mean that the concern has gone away, or have the proponents gone away. I sincerely doubt that the problem has gone away.
Summits comments are balderdash.
Dogs that need training and kids. I wonder what kind of insurance they would be carrying.
I think they would have less problems with the rehab center….less noise for sure. Thankful it isn’t my area of town… have my share of inconsiderate neighbors
Doesn’t sound like any better idea than what was originally proposed for that site. Speaking of that womens rehab centre. Whatever happened to the idea once the Haldi road proposal flopped? The whole thing just died out. Maybe they should put the rehab centre and dog thing up on Tyner boulevard. I hear the lighting is excellent and so is the trail system. Plenty of open land out there for two premium facilities.
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