COMMENTS:

The negative tone of the recommendation:.is due to this rezoning's
inplications for the City's commercial policy of directing general
commercial business to locate downtown or in an established neighbour-~
hood commercial centre, eg. Prairie - Coast Meridian. In view of

this precedent an alternative that will not weaken the City's policy
should be sought.

At present there is a partially constructed building on the property.
Further construction and completion of the building is waiting for
tennant committment. Unfortunately, the economic slow down has
affected demand for highway commercial use. Given this limitation,
the owner has sought to rezone the property to attract tennants

from a wider variety of businesses.

To summarize the dilema, this report is recommending the City's
policy of protecting downtown and neighbourhood centres be maintained.
As the building presently exists, it detracts from the area as well

as the City's image as a whole, it should be completed. The problem
is to Find a tennant to complete the building with out injuring. the
City's Commercial policy.

Potential solutions to this problem include the option of listing
potential conforming uses, eg. a Catering Office for the applicant

to pursue. A second direction of resolution would be to rezone the
property and limit its use to a set of specified activities that. would
be acceptable, by way of a Restrictive Covenant.

The procedure being recommended by this report is to ask City Counc)
to TABLE this report. By tabling this application, Council will be
advising the applicant of the concern anc providing an opportunity
for having this building completed.

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Bill Brown

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