Prince George City Council went through 33 resolutions relating to the Official Community Plan (OCP) at tonight’s (Monday) meeting.
These came back to the Council table with staff reports on resolutions presented during meetings held on April 9th and 16th.
The full list of resolutions and staff reports can be found here.
Two of the more high-profile resolutions surrounded Ginter’s, however they are separate from the OCP review process as they are a rezoning issue.
Resolution two asked for a report on removing the right-of-way and redesignating the portion of land between 18th Avenue and 22nd Avenue and between Massey Drive and Ferry Avenue to Park and Open Space.
Council unanimously approved submitting a road closure application for the right of way.
The next resolution asked for a report on rezoning the area as P1: Parks and Recreation.
Council also unanimously voted to proceed with the rezoning process following the approval of a road closure bylaw as outlined in the previous resolution.
According to Manager of Legislative Services Ethan Anderson, the next steps will be to compile the votes into a redline version of an updated OCP.
“We’re going to bring it back to a future meeting to get an amendment motion from Council on the bylaw,” Anderson explained.
“From there, we’ll ask you for establishing a special meeting to hold that new public hearing, we’ll do notification, do the public hearing, and then we’ll see where we’re at from there.”
Director of Planning and Development Deanna Wasnik said the plan is to have the redline version come back to Council in August, with the hope of having the public hearing in September.
“I have to remind Council, we do have a legislated deadline to have the OCP amended, either the new one adopted or the current one amended to address some housing legislation required by the province,” she said.
“The way this is all timed out with the August return to Council with the final version for review by Council of the OCP, public hearing in September, we should be able to make that deadline, but if there’s any further changes, that’s where we might have to relook at that to say we’re not going to make it with the 2025 OCP, so we might have to amend our 2011 that we’re using right now.”
Other items discussed tonight included responses to resolutions from the Prince George Heritage Commission’s Annual Report, and replacing a garbage truck damaged in an accident last year.
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