Prince George B.C.- Prince George City Council has approved spending a little more than $67 thousand dollars  to advance the look at creating a Residential Wood Innovations Neighbourhood.   The idea  was one of the recommmendations from the Smart Growth  on the Ground project which  called for such a neighbourhood between downtown and the Crescents Neighbourhood.

 

The money would be used for public consultation, density analysis, transportation and servicing studies. 

 

Manager of Long Range planning, Dan Milburn says if the money is not spent on hiring consultants to get the work done now, other projects, such as the Prince George Golf Course Lands, and the Official Community Plan  would have to be delayed, or this project would have to be delayed.

 

The proposal prepared by the consultant indicates that their analysis would include (but is not necessarily limited to) addressing the following:

• lot patterns and alternatives;

• transition in scale to adjacent neighbourhoods;

• parking and site access;

• proximity to services and amenities;

• siting and massing,

• view and shadowing impacts;

• built form and character;

• interface with public streets and open spaces

• other general urban design/qualitative issues impacting livability.

 

The work would be done in four phases with the final report ready before the end of this year.