Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 24 No. 39 Friday, Sept. 27, 2013
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Jackson decision shocks board By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
Bobbi Johnson’s list of things to do includes asking city council what they want and what they were thinking when they voted down a request by the school district to rezone the former J.L. Jackson school site for commercial use. Johnson, school board chair, was available to answer questions Monday night during a public hearing on the school district request to rezone the site from P3 Institutional to C2 Town Centre Commercial. But there were none, which added to her astonishment when, at the end of the
evening, Couns. Debbie Cannon, Chad Eliason and Denise Reimer’s majority vote led to the request’s defeat. (Mayor Nancy Cooper and Coun. Marg Kentel were in favour; Couns. Alan Harrison and Ken Jamieson did not participate due to a conflict of interest as employees of the school district.) “I think I was passed surprised, I was shocked,” said Johnson. “I think that we have done everything that council asked us. There’s a plan in place for that piece of property if it gets developed that the community worked on. We had a community committee that worked on all the guidelines for that property, so that’s
all done. We’ve done everything that we thought we had to do.” The school district has applied to subdivide the property from two lots to four, and plans to construct a new school district office on one of the lots. Johnson says the C2 designation would have supported a wide variety of development opportunities, including stores and/or a college campus. Monday night, after the hearing, Eliason recalled the well-attended public hearing in 2006 when rezoning was sought for three-quarters of the property to accommodate a new grocery store. He said person after person commented on how it was too
important a piece of taxpayers’ property for the public not to have input on how it’s developed. He went on to say the school district doesn’t need to rezone the entire property – that doing so would go against what the community asked for back in 2006. “I think we can work together with the school district to create variances and create a financially suitable way for them to build a new school district office to make that happen,” said Eliason. Cannon said she wanted to see a developer and a plan come to council and take things from there.
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