New OCP, Pets, Parks and Hotel Room Taxes on Tap for Council

By 250 News

Prince George B.C.- City Council will  get an update on the  development of the new Official Community plan.

According to the  surveys,  residents  said they liked Option “B”  for  planning growth in the City for a variety of reasons including:i

• Reducing the need to travel through serviced centres
• Encouraging transit, walking and cycling
• Both compact and dispersed, limits sprawl but allows some peripheral development
• Balances growth priorities, developing the downtown while still providing upgrades/services to other
• major areas of PG
• Uses current services
• More affordable housing opportunity

Staff  will present the results of the  public consultation and start working towards an official community plan that can be presented to  Council early next year.

The Additional Hotel Room Tax  will be examined.  Coming close to  the end of it’s first year, the tax collected  $386,180 dollars as of the end of August.  It is expected to have collected $480 thousand by the end of the year.

Also on the agenda this evening, a  request to boost licence fees for  your dog.  The increases need to keep in  step with  inflation  says the staff report.  If approved, fees would  increase by 10%, to  $27.50 for a license for a  spayed or neutered dog,  and to $66.00 for  one that has not been  “fixed”. 

The Off Leash Park Advisory Committee will present  an update on its work to find  proper areas for  off leash or under control areas for pooches.

Council will be asked to  grant a temporary approval  for  a liquor retail sales outlet in the space formerly occupied by  Sergeant O’Flaherty’s pub  in the lower level at the  Coast Inn of the North.

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