Airport Lands Open House Tonight

Thursday, July 03, 2008 03:48 AM

Areas in mauve indicate proposed light industrial, green areas are gree space, broken blue line marks roads either existing or proposed, green broken line outlines Airport Lands, while dark red line outlines property up for discussion. Map, Courtesy L&M Engineering.

Prince George, B.C. – The draft plan for the airport light industrial plan is up for discussion this evening at the Coast Inn of the North.

The open house will run from 7-9 and all aspects of the draft will be available for public input.

The plan for the 1200 hectares of property examined current and surrounding land uses, transportation network, environmentally sensitive areas, geo-technical considerations, air quality and noise concerns archaeological considerations, infrastructure and servicing, and the proposed use of the lands.

L&M Engineering of Prince George developed the plan and says public input will be incorporated into the final draft which will be presented to Prince George Council for review. It is expected the City Council will consider the adoption of the Airport Light Industrial Plan some time this fall.

Meantime, there is still no decision from the Agriculture Land Commission on whether it will allow all, some or none of the property to be taken from the Agriculture Land Reserve. During the public meeting held May 26^th, the Commission Chair said unless there were complications, a decision could be expected in about two weeks.

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Comments

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on July 3 2008 7:39 AM

That is really weird that the ALR committee is taking so long. There is something up folks!!

Seems like the ALR people are going to screw this project over and are waiting to confirm holidays bookings to be out of town for a year or two until the lynch mob settles down, or is starved out.

Posted by: He speaks on July 3 2008 12:05 PM

by chance, ALR people may be practicing due diligence, so it does not come back to haunt them.

Posted by: lunarbase on July 3 2008 12:57 PM

Does seem a huge amount of land to be taking out of the ALR with no real tenants in line for the project. Not that this is exactly prime agriculture land in the first place but why so many acres when there is no real plan. I have the seen plans for the facilities and they are a strange type of building for being a cargo facility.

Who is paying to get all the utilities in place, pave the roads, put in fire protection, etc ?

Is this just going to end up like the BCRail industrial site with terrible roads, questionable appearance of many facilities and in general highly under utilized ?

Posted by: He speaks on July 3 2008 2:59 PM

I would have to assume, that the the developer of the property will likely need to pay for a good portion of services. Water, sewer is pretty close already. The city will charge it out under DCC once the building starts.

As far as the roads go, likely will be industrial loading, however it is going to be built on clay.