Gunn Road Residents Huddle With Airport Reps This Evening

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 03:59 AM

L&M Engineering’s vision of the Logistics Park for the Prince George Airport

Prince George, B.C. – The residents of Gunn Road will meet with Prince George Airport Authority reps this evening.

This session is in response to the rezoning application that was presented to Prince George City Council at the end of March. That public hearing involved the application to rezone some lands to general industrial for uses connected with the logistics and cargo development of the airport.

Area residents and their supporters, presented a petition to Council asking that the rezoning be postponed until there had been a traffic impact study, a sound impact study and the residents of the surrounding area get full information on the plans.

Airport General Manager Stieg Hoeg told City Council this week, the Airport Authority could have done a better job of communicating with its neighbours and is making efforts to rectify that situation “I have hired a business development person and we are meeting with the folks from Gunn Road to improve our communications.”

The meeting this evening will be very informal, “The people of Gunn Road have been very fair and our initial discussions have been good, they have been very accommodating” says Hoeg. He says this evening’s session will see the Airport offering information on its plans.

The residents made several suggestions during the public hearing to mitigate noise including leaving as many trees standing as possible, development of a greenbelt between the logistics park and the residential area, or possibly building a berm.

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Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 03:59 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 16 2008 7:25 AM

What trees? Maybe they want that mobile home and those shacks to stay as the buffer??

Posted by: thereasonableman on April 16 2008 8:38 AM

Hand out free earplugs, like the people that live under the skytrain.

Posted by: seamutt on April 16 2008 9:29 AM

Well everyone on Gunn road, you moved in beside an airport.

Posted by: Foo738 on April 16 2008 11:30 AM

Ear plugs won't help. How compassionate you guys are.

Posted by: Harbinger on April 16 2008 12:34 PM

How many voters on Gunn Road? How many of them vote? Single digit number? Seems to me a successful adventure for all involved '�ept them residents. People don't like change anyway. The Timmies at 15th and Ospika was opposed. Same with Moxies. The sky din't fall. Let's move on and find something else to whine about.

Posted by: owl on April 16 2008 4:52 PM

Are those apple trees?

Posted by: owl on April 16 2008 4:55 PM

It looks like there is a lot of property being wasted. It does not follow the "Smartgrowth" concept of planning.

This is a throw back to Don Mills industrial parks of the 1960's ....

Posted by: robichal on April 16 2008 9:33 PM

it looks nice in that diagram at the top of the article and quite frankly, PG needs something NICE to look at -

Posted by: tceperley on April 17 2008 3:56 PM

try looking at that through your living room window. It doesn't matter where you buy, if someone willing to spend money and provide jobs wants to invade your space your not going to get a choice either. Where they are proposing this beautiful thing to look at is a field full of trees, tell me what would you rather look at. I bought property across from a horse farm with a large amount space between the airport and ourselves. the airport is moving toward me. And for anyone who hasn't been down Gunn Rd lately seven out of eleven are HOUSES.

Posted by: metalman on April 17 2008 4:52 PM

Thanks, tceperley, for a different perspective. Gunn rd. residents are people too! I personally would not want tolive there, before or after the airport improvements. Once you get past the initial commercial area, the rest of the drive is rather scenic, until you get to the kiddie hilton on the hill that is.
metalman.