Attention residents of College Heights, our city planners are at it again. They are looking to oppose the Official Community Plan once again and rezone the vacant property next to Save On Foods in College Heights to allow for two six-storey apartment buildings to be erected. This space is currently zoned for commercial use. This is a very busy road where leaving the shopping center parking lot is almost a near death experience every time. We pay a disproportionally higher tax rate in College Heights on comparable square footage so we can live in a quiet and safe neighborhood. Allowing a townhouse complex with commercial would be one thing since there is pride in ownership. Allowing rentals on a mass scale will lead to a more transient population in our neighborhood with higher crime likely to follow.
The city has stated they want more people living in the downtown core to rejuvenate it. Here is an idea, build the apartments downtown! The city has purchased and set aside vacant lots for future development. Get developing! If this is the case of a land developer who made a bad investment and cannot find a commercial partner, well too bad. Residents can submit their concerns to [email protected] by
Sept. 8 or attend an open house at site on Sept. 7 between 4:00-6:30.
City residents were successful in shutting down the city's plan to relocate transit behind the fair grounds. It is time for our council and city planners to wake up, sit down and start making some intelligent decisions to rejuvenate our unattractive city.
G. Salton
Prince George
