Council Approves 3rd Reading for Neighbourhood Plan

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Prince George, B.C. – The way has been cleared for yet another new neighbourhood.  The Lyon Cascades  neighbourhood in College Heights will  add nearly  700 new housing units  to the City.  The only hitch to the plan is the call for a traffic impact study which much be completed before final reading is  granted. 

That  study is already being developed and five intersections have been put under the microscope including, Domano and St. Lawrence which the  study indicates will need a  traffic light in a few years and there will need to be a  four way stop at the intersection of Southridge and  St. Lawrence.

 The study  has been put together  with the assumption the Ospika extension across highway 16 west  doesn't happen within the next 15 years. 

Located at the west end of St. Lawrence Avenue, the  plan  calls for a development that will  have urban residential, suburban residential, multiple residential, parks and recreation, and greenbelt areas and will require the closure of five undeveloped road right of ways.

The neighbourhood is bisected by a greenbelt.  Over 30% of the property will be park or greenway.

The neighbourhood would have  approximately 355 single family units and 336 multiple family dwelling units. The residential development will include the provision of two neighbourhood parks, a long natural greenspace feature running east-west adjacent to the existing watercourse and the development of a rustic trail system. 

The proposed development will see the extension of Eastview Street, Vista Ridge Drive,  Southridge Avenue, St. Patrick Avenue, Ospika Boulevard and ultimately Glen Lyon Way.

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