Another Request For ALR Exclusion

Monday, September 10, 2007 08:31 PM

Area marked in heavy black is land which applicant wants excluded from the ALR

Prince George City Council has unanimously approved support for another request to have a large piece of land excluded from the agricultural land reserve. Again, the property will eventually come back to Council for consideration for rezoning to light industrial. Again, it will be tied into , or service, expansion of the airport.

At the last Council meeting, there was considerable discussion when a land owner made application for civic support for his request to have land removed from the ALR. City staff recommended the request be denied until the new survey of available suitable light industrial land had been completed.

Council approved supporting the exclusion request saying it was the City that still had the final say on rezoning.

In the latest case, the application is from Novak Brother Contracting and it involves some 128 hectares of propert east of the BCR industrial site in Prince George. The owners would eventually like to have the property rezoned light industrial and presented letters of support for that intent.

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Comments

Posted by: bohemian on September 10 2007 10:36 PM

So much for the 100 mile diet...

Posted by: Chadermando on September 10 2007 11:24 PM

That is a horrible location for light industrial IMO. If there is any air pollution involved it goes directly into the city.

I think that area should be developed for airport motels, and trucker gas station type services, or residential that anchors a gateway to a cut bank causeway and the LC Gunn Park system.

Posted by: DPJ on September 10 2007 11:36 PM

Light industrial doesn't pollute much compared to heavy industries. Cartier Industrial park is an example of less pollution compared to the pulp mills and refinery across the river

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on September 11 2007 7:28 AM

How heavy are we talking about?
Not much chance anyone will be looking to set up a steel plant in PG. Anything requiring a tall smoke stack is too close to the airport as well. So what's left? A heavy lipstick factory?

Posted by: owl on September 11 2007 9:22 AM

How about a heavy water plant......?

;-)

The heaviest polluters in a light industrial area are probably the diesel powered transport trucks moving goods from one place to another.

Posted by: Palopu on September 11 2007 12:25 PM

Is it possible that these projects are for positioning for Highway 16 East to intersect with Hiway 97 North passing behind the Airport and through to say Sintich Trailer Park. Trucks could then go down the hill and out on Highway 16. This to me seems to be a more likely scenario than building light industrial for an Airport Expansion that may or may not attract any business.