Council in brief: Developer looking to rezone land off Water Street, Summerside
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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — A developer is re-applying to rezone a parcel of land off Water Avenue in Summerside.
The appliance was submitted by Strategic Holdings Inc. and introduced to council on the Aug. 21 assembly. It will see 674 Water St. and 678 Water St. – behind NuCity Plaza and Wash World Automotive Wash – rezoned to high-density residential.
At the moment, the properties are zoned for single household residential.
The rezoning, mentioned applicant Nathan Kember on the assembly, would allow them to assemble residences reminiscent of flats, duplexes and single-family houses.
Kember sees the tons as consisting of a mixture of buildings.
The proposal had been earlier than council beforehand, with councillors initially defeating the movement at its Might 15 assembly.
Council later rescinded the choice at its July 17 assembly, enabling the applicant to reapply.
Summerside Hearth Division receives extra calls than ordinary
The Summerside Hearth Division is on observe to have its highest variety of recorded calls in a yr.
On the month-to-month council assembly on Aug. 21, it was reported that, to this point this yr, the fireplace division has obtained 261 calls.
Within the month-to-month hearth report, it was written that, “If this was the yr finish, it will be the fifth largest quantity of calls in our data.”
If this tempo retains up, famous the report, the division will, for the primary time, have obtained greater than 400 calls in a yr.
In line with the report, the Summerside Hearth Division paged out 36 calls in August: 9 medical first response, 16 alarm panel, one construction hearth, 4 motorcar accidents, one grass hearth, one outside hearth violation, one canceled name and three miscellaneous.
Kristin Gardiner is a reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. She might be reached by electronic mail at [email protected] and adopted on X @KristinGardiner.
