Welcome Wagon rep speaking to council
A presentation by Sheila Kuhre of the Summerland Welcome Wagon program is at the top of this evening’s meeting of Summerland Council.
In other business, council will receive a summary of development activity for the first four months of the year and two development variance permit applications.
The owners of property located at 123 Sumac Ridge Dr., wish to reduce the rear yard setback and not to be required to install a landscape buffer and fence in order to construct a garage addition to an existing home.
The second application concerns the property at 9918 Canyon View Rd.
The owners are applying to reduce the side yard setback in order to build a greenhouse and also to allow a basement to be constructed in a dwelling unit for farm labour.
Staff are recommending that additional funds from the electrical capital replacement reserve be allocated to the Bentley Road Conductor Upgrades project in the amount of $42,370, which would bring the approved total project cost to $304,070.
Staff are also recommending that a report on the Prairie Valley Substation Switch Upgrades Power Outage be received for information and that council request staff to report back on the proposed work plan for the project.
Council will consider supporting and directing staff to prepare applications to the Federal Gas Tax Fund for two projects — Giant’s Head Road Upgrades and Phase 2 of the Integrated Solar Project.
Council will also consider endorsing the submission of an application to the B.C. Rural Dividend Program for the Giant’s Head Mountain Trail project and supporting this project through its duration.
An additional nine pages of the petition to stop the re-zoning of agricultural land at 13610 Banks Cresc., will come before council to receive for information. This will bring the total number of signatures on both the hard copy and online petition to 1,707.
The request by Mountain View Growers, owners of properties at 14608 and 14803 Washington Ave., and 10722 Ritchie St., to connect to the district’s sanitary sewer system will be considered by council.
Staff are recommending that bylaws prohibiting third-party signage and signage of street right-of-way not be enforced for signs used jointly by the Tuesday and Sunday markets until such time that a district direction signage program is implemented.
Several resolutions regarding the OCP and zoning bylaw amendment for 14600 Cartwright Ave., will come before council.
These involve the removal of the townhouse portion of the proposed development while giving second reading to the amended zoning bylaw to allow 22 single family strata lots, and holding a public hearing on June 12 to receive feedback on the amended bylaw. Two presentations will be made at the morning council of the whole meeting.
The first will be by Cameron Baughen, solid water management co-ordinator with the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, regarding a regional compost facility. The second presentation, which concerns the proposed Banks Crescent development, will be made by Malek Tawashy and Kirk Fisher of the Lark Group, project developers, and Helen Byrne of St. Elizabeth Health Care, a non-profit health-care provider.
The committee of a whole meeting begins at 9 a.m. and the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Both are held at the Municipal Hall, 13211 Henry Avenue and are open to the public.