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Volume 61 No. 51
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Desire for a Cable Car playground Cameron Orr A coalition of Cable Car area parents are banding together to ask the District of Kitimat to install a playground in their rural subdivision. It’s not the first time the issue has come up, as a town report this month refers to previously reviewed areas, which include the north end of Greyling Avenue, Chinook Avenue at the road to the Kitimat River, and a right of way access just off Coho Avenue. There’s no perfect location for a park though. The Coho location is in a lot flanked by homes on either side and home owners are not keen to see one built so close to their home. The other two sites’ most notable challenge is that they are on Crown land, rather than District of Kitimat land. A delegation of parents to council on December 14, led by Cable Car resident Lani Gibson, says that despite the obstacles outlined by the District of Kitimat in installing a playground in the area, it’s something that should be considered under their next budget preparation. Gibson said the town should set aside $75,000 to acquire the land and begin work in 2016. She acknowledges installing a playground is pricier for Cable Car simply due to certain factors, but as tax payers they shouldn’t have to go without amenities available to people in other parts of the municipality. That cost would include how much the town would have to spend potentially to acquire Crown land under the two options. Continued on page 11
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Frozen Some cute faces are worth melting for. Little Olafs took to the ice during the Snow Valley Skating Club’s annual gala December 12, this year’s theme based on the Disney film Frozen. As seen above, some needed a bit of an extra hand getting around the ice. Cameron Orr
Townhouses get dev permit The developer planning a 40-unit townhouse complex on Kingfisher Avenue is in support of the conditions placed on a development permit for the complex. Council approved the permit that will allow the developer to go ahead on construction. Those conditions include having bear-proof on-site garbage containers, a no-build covenant on the portion of the site not included in the envelope of the planning buildings, and a $2,000 landscaping bond. Not a condition of the permit specifically but as part of the development McFadden Management will also be improving that section of Kingfisher to-
wards the golf course, bringing it up to municipal standards. Stuart McFadden told council at the December 14 meeting that the company accepted all of the conditions of the permit and was happy to continue to develop the site. The Advisory Planning Commission also supported the application and there were no public comments on the application made. Residents appear in better spirits about the proposal now, after a rocky go last year when an application came in to develop over 50 townhouse units at the site. Now that the proposal is at 40 units, the amount allowed for under existing
zoning, there have been no public complaints. Those 40-units will be split among five townhouses buildings. The no-build portion of the site includes a ravine with a significant slope. In the past the District of Kitimat say proposals for up to 124 units have been made for that site. The subdivision in 1976 for Margetts Street also allowed for the potential development on Kingfisher for multi-family dwellings. Development of that area was envisioned to have begun as soon as Margetts Street was completed. In 1991 the land was rezoned to allow for the 40 townhouses.