Despite complaints from a neighbour, city council gave the go-ahead Monday night for a group of residential lots to be used as a temporary construction storage site.
The one-year permit was granted to allow space on Redwood Street to put equipment and a muster station used for the construction of an office building at 1811 Victoria St.
But neighbouring property owner Dian Yorke said the property owner has a history of disregarding the permit process, citing during a public hearing Monday the previous use of the residential lots in question as a parking lot and that the space was already used for construction storage prior to submitting a permit last year.
"Council please deny this permit so that you can show everyone in Prince George that everything requires a process and that big construction can not just bully its way throughout our community without being transparent with the public," Yorke wrote in a letter to council.
Construction is expected to wrap up on the Victoria Street building by the end of October, but the permit is good until the end of May 2016, in case there are delays.
City council didn't grant forgiveness to another resident who placed their home too close to the property line.
Council followed staff recommendations to deny a development variance permit application for a manufactured home on Adam Drive that was encroaching on a drainage right of way.
The home will have to be moved 0.7 metres south to comply with the necessary 1.2-metre setback requirement.
