Pandosy residents set to fight
Kirk Penton - May 13, 2019 - Biz Releases

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South Pandosy residents are trying to rally troops for a fight against Kelowna city council.

Larry Kelly, who lives in the Pandosy village, is one of many against a planned Groves Avenue housing project that would be six storeys tall and house 22 units. The development was actually defeated at a public hearing on April 23, but Mayor Colin Basran has exercised his rarely used executive privilege right to bring the Abbott Park Holdings development back to today’s council meeting.

That has Kelly and his neighbours, who spoke out against the project at the public hearing, hopping mad. They found out about it being brought back to council only late last week when the agenda was released to the public.

“We’re going to be exploring whatever alternatives we as a public have to see if there’s anything that can be done with regard to what the mayor’s trying to do,” Kelly said Monday morning. “Hopefully it will … get defeated so that we can do what we need to do to ensure everyone knows why we’re against it.

“We certainly don’t object to development. We’ve approved so many developments for our area. Sopa Square for one. Abbott House for another. And they were all conforming to our community plan. There were some things that we allowed that weren’t according to the community plan, but this one does not meet any of those things for us at all. And it does not add to the community.”

The unique part about the vote following the April 23 public hearing is Coun. Ryan Donn was absent. The project didn’t pass because the the finally tally was 4-4. It needed five votes of support to pass.


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