Smart Growth Session in P.G. Tonight

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 03:55 AM

Prince George, B.C.- Tonight marks the first of two workshops aimed at setting targets for the Smart Growth on the Ground project in Prince George.

Tonight’s session will bring together researchers and professionals in the community to present their findings on a variety of issues that had surfaced at the previous Smart Growth Workshops held in the city.

Tonight will focus on air quality, commercial energy use, renewable potential energy, residential energy use, storm water management and street trees. Tomorrow night the focus will be on alternative transportation, climate change adaptation, heritage, housing and local food.

The Smart Growth project in Prince George will consider all these factors when it comes to making plans for downtown, focusing on creating a vibrant downtown core.

Smart Growth on the Ground projects have already been put to use in Maple Ridge, Squamish and Greater Oliver.

The Prince George sessions are being held at the Ramada Inn from 6-9:30p.m.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 03:55 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: downnotout on March 4 2009 11:07 AM

You want growth in the downtown core get rid of the drugs and panhandlers. Then downtown will look after itself.

Posted by: Big-Wayne on March 4 2009 12:55 PM

SO how do you do that exactly?

Posted by: gus on March 4 2009 1:30 PM

The majority of the drugs are in the suburbs.

Panhandlers are where the people with money are and other opportunities presetn themselves - the suburban shopping mal

That they are only downtown, or mostly downtown is something that people think but is not totally true.

Posted by: beesknees on March 4 2009 3:43 PM

People who desire to rejuvenate the downtown core of cities are swimming upstream. Meaning they are thrashing their legs, putting forth a fierce effort, but not getting anywhere. And what they're proposing here, is just echoing what has been done in other towns, unsuccessfully.

All of these experiments cost a lot of money, annoy a lot of people (can't please everyone), and break a lot of hearts of young idealists who want to make a difference, and they become bitter old people who complain about society. And the downtown continues to stagnate, as happens everywhere else. That's the way things go, and we can't do anything about it.

Best to just not waste anymore money on trying to do something with PG, because that money could be better spent somewhere else in this town. Let the downtown area slowly settle into some seedy, worn-out broken building and pot-holed back-alley area, with some quaint little stores and bank buildings, and be satisfied that we tried.

Posted by: Harbinger on March 4 2009 5:00 PM

Hey! Why not just stop talking about it? There isn't another election for almost four years. Then we can talk about again about six months before the next election. It's worked in the past.

Posted by: Hindsight on March 4 2009 7:43 PM

Kamloops once had a downtown much like ours but now has a vibrant downtown that survives with many homless and drug users roaming the streets. The main reason for a descent downtown is the amount of condo/apartment complexes that Kamloops has...something we don't have.

Posted by: diplomat on March 5 2009 9:01 AM

"The main reason for a descent downtown is the amount of condo/apartment complexes that Kamloops has...something we don't have."

What happened to the Quebec street Gaia (spelling ?) super project which was so much touted during a certain re-election campaign, together with the promise to *immediately* repair the barricaded Cameron Street bridge for the people living on the Hart?