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Long but
varied Community
Grants presentations, Golf Course to Penthouses to Revitalization
authorization |
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Both
Councillors Gordon Payne and Joy Thorkelson attended Monday’s meeting by
telephone |
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So we did not get
the musical chairs as in last meeting
where too hot vs too cold etc – but I did notice the front door was left open
– presumably to cool the upstairs --- as below |
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Front
door left open --- air conditioning?? Grant $$ etc Northern View
has preliminary listing of grants and amounts so I won’t duplicate here Agenda
Package
has good table of amounts asked 2010 amounts given and 2011 requests---
large PDF |
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Halloween
Fest gets scary |
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Mrs
Bev(?) Killbery spoke to the $$ woes of putting on this popular late October
program – including that 2011 sees a 2 day rental of Civic Center instead of
the 1 day in 2010 --- more later |
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More later
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PR Special
Events Society |
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Barb Gruber, Gordon
Cox and Mrs Killbery again speak to $$ woes for the 4 programs that Special
Events puts on each year: Sea Fest, Canada Day, etc – more later --- the good
news was council listened and granted $10,000 in-kind Civic Centre and
$20,000 Operating Grant for 2011 |
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Image my from Dec 6th |
Library
discussion was more thorough |
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I will comeback to
this and the Museum of Northern BC later in week --- Library did not get near
what it was asking for --- ($500T vs requested 596T$) --- Tourism PR got
through fairly unscathed as did the Golf Course etc --- more later |
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Jean Martin got a dig in about the
Recycling facility and the need to look more closely at PR Bylaw that controls
what has to be recycled etc --- especially since corrugated cardboard prices
have tripled since the bottom last year – more later I spoke to this too
along lines of my earlier |
Committee of
the Whole questions |
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More later |
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I will
return to this later too |
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I
am thinking this file was very poorly handled – but the building will be
beautiful (see my earlier also) |
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Note this is
a Development Permit and not a Development Variance Permit |
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BUT
– are penthouses within C1 zoning??? |
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And what
about the Parking? |
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When I asked City
Staff about parking I was told that this facility had been grandfather with 96
parking units (calculated from Peg-legs etc use of building when Bylaw
3289 2009 came into effect) – To me this is a reductio
absurdum—for the Parking pay in lieu of $$ |
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Here is a
pre-view of where I am going |
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The
‘pay in lieu’ etc was crafted for Cow Bay in the late1980s when it was seen
as a Rubber Tire destination for Tourism looking at old canneries etc --- thus
the parking (meant to be in a central larger lot as the present Atlin lot) But
if the Peg Legs etc were to have met that criteria it would require a parking
lot larger then the present building |
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So if Penthouses don’t
meet the C1 zoning --- and if a Variance had been sought then I would suggest
that using grandfathered commercial parking is also not ‘valid’ – more later |
I spoke to
the ‘absurdity’ of charging even 200$ for these ‘pay in lieu’ when 96 were
‘grandfathered’ in this building alone |
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That comes up to
something like 192T$ (at 2T$/) --- which would almost pay for the Penthouse
addition |
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More Later
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More on
façade bylaw, Golf Course, Libraries, etc later |
Created by LG on 15/12/2010
Last updated on Wednesday, December
15, 2010