The final step to approve a $9.3-million rehabilitation of Overlanders Bridge is now complete.
At its Tuesday, Oct. 7 council meeting, Kamloops city council adopted a borrowing bylaw for the project, which will upgrade the deck of the bridge as well as its failing western sidewalk.
As per the alternative-approval process, more than 6,000 electors (10 per cent of those eligible) would have needed to formally object to the city’s borrowing plans to send the project to referendum.
However, no electors objected to borrowing for the project.
Work on the bridge is expected to begin in the spring of 2015 and take about five months.
Tesla is supercharged about Kamloops
A Tesla Motors supercharging station is coming to the Kamloops Information Centre.
In a closed council meeting on June 24, Kamloops city council agreed to lease a portion of the parking lot at the tourist-information centre to the electric car company for the supercharger.
The tourist-information centre is in Aberdeen, directly across Hillside Way from Aberdeen Mall.
Tesla bills its superchargers as “the fastest charging station on the planet.” According to Tesla’s website, the station can charge a car to half power in 30 minutes.
A rezoning Battle continues
The owners of two Battle Street properties will get a second chance to convince Kamloops city council they should be allowed to rezone their lots to build an apartment building.
D&T Developments wants to build an 18-unit apartment complex at 801 and 807 Battle St., but was turned down at an earlier public meeting due to concerns about parking and the appearance of the building.
Natasha Taylor told council at its Tuesday, Oct. 7, meeting that the developers have changed the look of their proposed building to counter criticism that “it looked too much like a box” — and are planning to offer incentives to prospective tenants to limit the number of cars at the building, including prepaid, five-year transit passes.
Gay Pooler, general manager of the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association, also lent her support to D&T’s appeal.
Pooler said the KCBIA supports densification downtown.
“We felt the benefit of having the project downtown maybe outweighed not having enough parking,” she said.
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