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Volume 61 No. 47
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
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Trailer park plan pitch for Riverbrook Cameron Orr The wheels are in motion to approve a 70-unit mobile home park in Kitimat. Leonard Kerkhoff of Kerkhoff Construction, who is behind the development of a number of properties in Kitimat, presented the plan to Kitimat Council on November 16. The plan would adjoin the existing proposal for a townhouse complex called Riverbrook Estates which will be in an area behind Nadina and Liard Streets. Council has so far accepted the application for discussion and it is also going to the Advisory Planning Commission for review. While any ultimate approvals lay in the future, Councillor Larry Walker did indicate his concern over traffic that would be generated in such a facility. He said using an average of 1.5 cars per household there would be 100 vehicles coming and going from the site each day, on top of the traffic from the Riverbrook development. All traffic would go through Nadina and Liard Streets. “I don’t think I’d want to live on either one of those streets because it will become a zoo,” said Walker. But Kerkhoff said he’s had the traffic carefully analyzed by a professional firm who say traffic will be very manageable with everything developed. “They say that all these roads are more than adequate,” he said. “That’s their professional opinion...I rely on them.” Continued on page 6
Kitimat’s precious snowflakes
Hide and Seek with Christmas Elves!
Kitimat is that one place where snowflakes sometimes rise instead of fall. A District of Kitimat Public Works crew shown here on Haisla Boulevard at work getting the community ready for the season with the town’s illuminated snowflake decorations which are placed all throughout City Centre.
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be a problem. The pit’s first phase is at the property’s southernmost area which is a further distance than the landfill even. Existing haul roads will also be used to manage dust and there will be no more trucks operating with the pit than there is with today’s operations. Cable Car resident John Pozsgay, also owner of John’s Contracting, in turn presented council with a letter that included 131 signatures of Cable Car residents concerned with the project, and said that the impacts of traffic on the highway from the project should be a concern to anybody who uses Highway 37S. It wasn’t all opposition though. A resident of Chinook Street, Tim Algor, said he’s not worried about noise from the project as his property is quite close to the landfill and he rarely has trouble with noise from there. He also had confidence in the company itself to manage any issues. That support however was tempered by more opposition, from Cable Car resident Lucy Beattie who emphasized worry about road safety and limits to area recreation users. Continued on page 2