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Vol. 7 • Issue 48
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Thursday, November 22 • 2012
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Zoning change seeked for old Cooke Ave School ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Rossland residents will get their say on whether the city should allow the old Cooke Avenue school lot to be rezoned for a multi housing units. The Your Horoscope For the Week potential zoning change at a with Michael O’Connor inside be up for discussion durHoroscope the will West Kootenay Advertiser ing a public input on Dec. 10. For the Week The applicant, Cezary KsiRosslandNews_Nov29.pdf 11/19/2012 3:02:10 PM with Michael O’Connor
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azek Construction Ltd, seeks to change the zoning to build a-24 unit affordable housing complex. Council put some of their thoughts forward on the staff ’s motion to move the bylaw through second reading. Coun. Cary Fisher noted that the recommendation called for a green space and alleyway. Since the alleyway would have to be plowed, he
thought it didn’t seem consistent with the way the neighbourhood currently is. “There are streets already, everybody faces the street from the house and then creating this alleyway,” Fisher said. “If it is in fact affordable housing, I don’t really see having neighbours sharing snowplowing in a strata supporting affordable housing, although definitions of affordable housing are all
over the map.” Fisher said the community garden wasn’t a good fit either in that spot. “I’m not against it necessarily, a community garden, but i just don’t see it working,” he said. “I don’t know if the owner wants a community garden or not or a park space. I don’t mind some of the comments that maybe a little play area for the kids is a little better idea. If
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we’re looking at younger families, then that’s something that we have to consider. I support the density side of it.” Coun. Jill Spearn shared Fisher’s opinion of the the community garden idea. “A community garden should be something like what we have in Jubilee Park,” she said. “If I bought one of those units, I don’t want a commu-
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