COUNCIL IN BRIEF: Outreach centre would be moved if city-owned, says Charlottetown mayor
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Charlottetown’s mayor says he would need the Group Outreach Centre moved to a brand new location, however the metropolis doesn’t have the authority to compel the province.
Mayor Philip Brown spoke in regards to the COC on the June 12 common council assembly in response to feedback from Coun. Mitchell Tweel.
Tweel mentioned he had heard numerous complaints from residents in regards to the centre, which he known as a “disaster,” and known as for metropolis council and police to intervene.
Brown responded that the COC is provincially owned. Whereas he agreed with Tweel about wanting a distinct location, Brown didn’t have a solution to the place this might work and hadn’t heard a lot from the province, he mentioned.
“The province is some choices, however they weren’t mentioned once we met with them a pair weeks (in the past). They simply broached the topic about, ‘We have to have a look at some broader areas of debate.’”
91-unit constructing coming to capital
A six-storey, 91-unit house constructing has obtained approval from Charlottetown council.
Council voted on the June 12 common assembly to approve the brand new construct at 600 North River Rd., pending a site visitors influence research.
The mixed-use constructing will embrace enclosed main-level parking and underground parking.
Planner Robert Zilke outlined the challenge on the June 5 planning board assembly.
The zoning by-law requires discover to be circulated within the surrounding space for main variances, and the town obtained three letters, all in help, Zilke mentioned.
After Zilke’s presentation, some board members expressed concern about elevated site visitors in a busy a part of city. Zilke agreed site visitors is one thing to think about.
“That’s why we’ve that situation, that it is to the satisfaction of the supervisor of public works. If the advice from the influence research and the supervisor of public works is to have proper out solely (on the intersection) simply to maintain the move of site visitors going, then clearly that may be a situation.”
Session on official plan coming within the fall
Charlottetown’s new official plan goes again to the folks for a second spherical of public session. Nevertheless it will not be in June, the date metropolis workers beneficial.
Plans for extra public session had been mentioned in the course of the Might 1 planning and heritage committee, the place a workers report beneficial hiring consultants to do one other spherical of public engagement in June.
Deputy Mayor Alanna Jankov says the following spherical might be within the fall.
“We have now not progressed any additional with that, and I anticipate we received’t be in all probability going again out to the general public till into the autumn. We have now some staffing shortages within the division, so we’ve to deal with these first,” she mentioned on the June 12 common assembly of council.
Logan MacLean is a municipal reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He may be reached by e mail at [email protected] and adopted on Twitter @loganmaclean94.
