Rendering of the proposed development at 360 Columbia in downtown Kamloops. (Photo via Arup Datta Artchitect/City of Kamloops)
Kamloops City Councillors have tentatively approved 630 housing units as part of four different developments that are at various stages.
They gave tentative approval to a 12-storey, 147 unit building near Royal Inland Hospital, a four-storey 27 unit building at 10th and St Paul, and two buildings with six units on McGowan Avenue on the North Shore.
A plan to add 450 units at the Pineridge Golf Course also cleared a public hearing on Tuesday night.
“For us, yesterday was a great day,” Councillor Stephen Karpuk said on NL Mornings.
“There is stuff that we did yesterday that we can’t officially talk about here on the radio because it was in closed but boy, we knocked it out of the park yesterday in getting stuff done and we need to. Our community is the third fastest growing community in the country.”
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- Rendering of the proposed development at 10th at St. Paul in downtown Kamloops. (Photo via BlueGreen Architecture/City of Kamloops)
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- A map showing the development at Pineridge Golf Course in Kamloops. (Photo via City of Kamloops)
Under those provincial housing targets, the City of Kamloops is required to build 4,236 housing units by Sept. 2028.
“We’ve got to grow properly and we’ve got to meet the needs that we’re being faced with, so very productive day yesterday, and very happy all of us were. We’re pretty pleased with what was done,” Karpuk said.
