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Land profile targets investors |
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Written by SCOTT STANFIELD
Citizen staff
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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PRINCE GEORGE AIRPORTFRASER-FORT GEORGE REGIONAL DISTRICTOFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLANSALMON VALLEY
Building on a similar piece of work from 2002, the study has been updated to reflect social and economic changes forecast for this area.
"The first industrial land study was spurred on by the failure of the mdf plant and the impact it was going to have on the airshed," said Terry McEachen, the district's general manager of community and development services. "At that time, the city realized that for heavy industry, really, there's not a home in Prince George anymore, so we better find some place where it can go, should it come."
While some sites are appropriate for heavy industry, others are more conducive to light industrial use.
Such as the Prince George Airport south site, a 350-hectare combination of Crown, private and airport authority land. The CNR north/south mainline is three kilometres west of the site, which could potentially offer direct access to Highway 97.
"That would be a great asset. It would take traffic out of Pineview, and give an appropriate entrance to the airport," said McEachen, who notes Crown land in the area first needs to go through community planning and public scrutiny before being identified in planning documents.
About 150 acres of the airport south site is private land that straddles Ellis Road. This parcel is not in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
"That is going through the planning process of OCP (Official Community Plan) and rezoning," McEachen said.
In terms of accommodating heavy industrial use, the profile identifies the Hart North site between Salmon Valley and Summit Lake as the strongest contender. There is currently no development in the area, although it had drawn the interest of China Steel in the 1970s, and more recently Alcoa, which had considered constructing a smelter at the site.
"There's been some interest in that area, but nothing's materialized with world markets being what they are," said McEachen, who notes Hart North features easy access to rail, highway, gas and oil, the Fraser River and a B.C. Hydro substation.
"It's not next to high population areas," he added.
Copies of the industrial land profile are available at www.rdgffg.bc.ca
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