Five Public Hearings At P.G. Council

Monday, July 23, 2007 04:00 AM

There are five public hearings on the agenda for Prince George City Council this evening.

The most controversial is expected to be the application to rezone a piece of property at the corner of Chief Lake Road and Foothills Boulevard. The applicants want to build a neighbourhood pub that would seat 95 patrons inside, another 20 on a patio. This item had initially been proposed for a public hearing just after the long weekend in May, but was withdrawn.

Also up for a public hearing;

a proposal to rezone property on the west side of Cowart Road for the development of 85 townhomes,
an application to rezone three lots on 10th Avenue for the construction of Victorian style homes,
an application to rezone 3.82 hectares on Sturgeon at North Nechako for the devellopment of 26 residential lots
an application to rezone to rsidential, a lot on Vance Road.

One of the other matters to come before Council this evening is what to do about the vandalized Terry Fox statue. Staff will present two options to Council, one would see the statue recast in bronze at a cost of $23 thousand, the other would have it redone in fiberglass at a cost of $5-$6 thousand dollars.

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Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 04:00 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on July 23 2007 7:12 AM

What a waste of time. Administration tells (recommends) the council how to vote, and the councillors do the rubber stamp duty.

Council should have one more option for our Venetian statue - get rid of it and save the money. I guess administration must want to have it up. It's probably a municipal doodad where all city administrators have a Terry Fox thing around somewhere. Move the statue over to the graveyard entrance, paid for by taxpayers of course.

Posted by: diplomat on July 23 2007 12:02 PM

Recast the Terry Fox statue and put it indoors where it is protected from vandalism:

the Art Gallery, CN Centre entrance, in the Airport waiting lounge area, City Hall or some other high visibility guarded location.

Outside it will only be attacked again by some semi-illiterate moron(s).

Posted by: Chester on July 23 2007 5:22 PM

An armed guard with a mounted gattling gun comes to mind to protect our property. Drunk or not, mow em down. Eventually, the problem will cease. Chester

Posted by: Palopu on July 23 2007 8:38 PM

The common sense thing would be to put the statue in the Civic Centre,lots of room there, however this facility is rarely used so no one would see it.

Another location would be to have it in the Coliseum at least then the young people who go skating would see it.

It could be mounted above the Entrance to the swimming pool. This would not be far from where it presenlty stands, and would be out of harms way, but still viewed by the same number of people.