Photo: City of Kamloops / Low Hammond Rowe architects Kamloops council approved plans for a 28-unit townhouse complex in Dufferin. A new townhouse complex will rise in Dufferin despite some neighbourhood opposition, with Kamloops council giving its approval to a development permit and rezoning needed for the build. During a meeting last month, council adopted a zoning amendment and approved the permits needed to make way for the 28-unit market townhouse development at 1385 Rockcress Dr.
, a property located to the southeast of Kenna Cartwright Park. Council heard from residents and the project developer for about an hour and a half before making its decision. “What I see in front of us today is, I believe, the right thing for this area,” said Coun.
Mike O’Reilly. He noted council weighed information from geotechnical engineers, park staff and landscape architects before coming to a decision. “As much as people like to vilify a developer, developers are a partner of ours in the sense of getting the units built that we need for our city.
And what's in front of us today, I will be supporting,” he said. The developer proposed a market townhouse development consisting of nine buildings — four duplex townhouses and five fourplex townhouse units. In order to move forward with the build, the developer needed the rezoning application to increase the maximum permitted density on the lot, an approval for a number of variances, and a development permit.
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