A plan to redevelop the Pineridge Golf Course in Dallas into as many as 450 residential units is moving to a public hearing, following tentative approval from Kamloops City Council.

The plan will also see the construction of new parks, a public open space at the site of the silt bluffs south of the golf course, and a new road to connect Valleyview Drive and Dallas Drive. It also includes modifications to a pair of existing Trans Canada highway exits at both Holman Road and Dallas Drive.

Development Director Marvin Kwiatkowski says the City got a lot of good feedback during an information session in early April, after the plans were first made public.

“Most people were excited to see that connection moving forward with the multi-use path as well as people keen to see more housing units built,” Kwiatkowski said.

Kwiatkowski says people will once again be able to have their say during the public hearing. He told Radio NL that barring any setbacks, it could take between five and ten years for the entire development to be built.

“We have the Orchards Walk project as well and that is moving forward year by year there, they’re continuing to head east, so a lot of it is development related,” he said. “The City is not building the whole road, so a timeline you would think in the next five to ten, we’d like to see that through.”

“The road extension through Pineridge would be paid for by the developer. The section though Orchards being the Orchards developer and the little portion at the trailer court – the few hundred metres in the middle of the two developments – would probably be a DCC project.”

The plan also includes a proposal to reroute transit service from the Trans-Canada Highway to the future Dallas-Valleyview Drive extension, with a number of new stops expected to be built.

“The eventual long term program would be that the whole area gets developed and we have a road connection all the way through and a multi-use pathway and bus service all the way through,” Community Planning Manager Stephen Bentley told Radio NL in March.

For more information on the project, including maps, and future updates, go here.