Electoral Boundaries, CN Rail, Smoke Free Zones, All on Agenda FOr P.G. Council

Monday, August 27, 2007 04:03 AM

The CN derailment of August 4^th is back before Prince George City Council this evening. Councilor Brian Skakun is calling for a complete review of all activities of that day.

Council will also address the recent preliminary report on electoral boundaries. The report says Prince George should have one less MLA. This matter has sparked the City, the Chamber of Commerce and initiatives Prince George to stage a rally on afternoon the Electoral Boundaries Commission has it’s public consultation session in Prince George on September 5^th.

Also on tap for this evening’s session:

L & M Engineering will present its case on why Council should immediately send the request of removing 550 hectares of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve to the Agricultural Land Commission. L&M says while the Agriculture Land Commission deals with the request, L&M can prepare the work that needs to be done for the next request, namely changing the Official Community Plan to allow the land to be used for light industrial.

Council will see the first application to have the property on Queensway rezoned for the development of “Friendship Lodge” the facility for the homeless that is planned for the site where the old Backpacker Motel used to stand.

Northern Health, together with the Canadian Cancer Society will ask Council to set up signs designating outdoor sporting areas as smoke free zones. There would be no enforcement necessary as butting out would be voluntary.

The Trails Task force will present a preliminary report and recommendations which call for action on linking the university with the Bowl area, as well as working with the Prince George Golf and Curling Club on trail design with the new golf club design.

The Central Business and Major Shopping Centre Vacancy rate survey will be presented. The survey shows the trends in retail and office vacancies in the city.

And the Performing Arts Feasibility project is back before Council. This time, Council will select two Councilors to take part in the study.

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on August 27 2007 7:21 AM

"Councilor Brian Skakun is calling for a complete review.." What for? Waste of money. Councilor Brian won't understand it anyway unless administration helps him.

Two trains go boom, Brian.

Posted by: owl on August 27 2007 9:10 AM

Ah ... another ad hominem attack for YDPC ... his brain is on autopilot as usual sseking out his next victim each day ....

;-)

Posted by: Chadermando on August 27 2007 5:30 PM

I have no faith in the Trails Task Force getting anything done. Its just another special interest group of appointments with no real vision other than road markings passing as trails.

Also I oppose rezoning airport lands within 1km of the cut bank for anything other than park, hotels, apartments, motels, restaurants, gas stations, corner stores, and recreation or tourism related activities. The nicest view hill of downtown PG should not be turned into industrial property, but rather used as a unique asset to PG for self promotion of our city. The other cut bank across from the CN Yard just does not cut it. I prefer to see the cut bank across from Fort George Park developed for residential and tourism.

I think they still would have enough land between this buffer zone and the airport to carry out their light industrial plans and both are just as important to a successful airport expansion.

I also have no faith that our city council will have any vision, so I bet they paln for a smoke stake right off the side of that hill pointing at the downtown. It wouldn't suprise me the least.