‘Yes’ likely for 150 units A MULTI-RESIDENTIAL de- velopment near Northwest Com- munity College should get the go- ahead from council this week. However, developer Rossco Ventures will have to come up with acceptable answers to some tough questions on storm water. drainage for its planned 150-unit project, At a May 16 committee of the whole meeting, city councillors recommended Rossco be allowed to proceed with the development under a land use contract negotia- led 20 years ago. That contract covered what is now Mountain Vista and the land north of it up to the college. It set out five phases for ils de- velopment, Mountain Vista being phase I and the multi-residential construction phase ['V. Rossco applied last month for a development variance permil to allow it to jump straight to phase TV, bypassing earlier single- family phases. But the company also offered to hand over to the city now park- land included in phase II of the plan. The permit request came under fire from neighbours. Rene Mikaloff, a 10-year resident of Floyd St., said her family had chosen their home because of the tural setting. Arguing that atmosphere would be destroyed if a multi-residential development went ahead, she called for rezoning all remaining phases to allow nothing smaller than 1 acre lots. The contract originally stipu- lated all work be done within 10 years. Alfreda Price therefore wanted to know how the city could issue a variance on something that had expired in 1984, She was also concerned the ad- ditional demand for walter would cause problems with supply to the neighbourhoad, At last week’s committee meet- ing, engineering director Siew Christensen answered those and other concerns, "Waler_ supply’ “and sanitary” sewer were both adequate to handle the extra demand and traf- fic issues would be handled through the normal sub-division process. However, there was a concern on what effect storm water runoff Police Beat TWO PEOPLE are dead after a fatal car crash last week on Old Lakelse Lake Drive. RCMP said Gary Michael Byng, 31, o£ Terrace, was killed instantly when he lost control of might have on ‘‘downstream’’ properties, he pointed out. Rossco would therefore have to show what would happen to the water from the moment it left its 6 acre development and which sewer systems or dilches it would be directed into, . Responding to a question from councillor Val George, Christensen conceded there could be future costs to the city depend- ing on where the run-off went. However, he emphasized, the city had the power to refuse to ac- cept those costs, ‘'I think the de- veloper is responsible for all that,’” he added. As for the different phases, al- though the contract ‘‘implies’’ they proceed in numerical se- quence, Christensen pointed out it did not require it. Mayor Jack Talstra also noted the land had originally been tagged as multi-residential in the 1980 official community plan and that designation had remained in the new one adopted Jast year. Having repeatedly emphasized the need for the city ta be able to fully control what happened on the site, George said he was not opposed to the variance. *] just want to make it clear we are going to control major devel- opers,’* he explained. Bud Smith of Rossco indicated he intends to construct 150 two- storey uni's on the land. He said the reason he wanted to bypass the single-family phases was there were already too many such lots on the market. 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