Cranbrook city council has adopted changes to the Official Community Plan and zoning to allow a small seniors housing project being led by the Cranbrook Rotary Club.
It’s for a 12-14 unit extension of the new medium density development on the adjacent property beside St. Mary’s School.
The city had to rezone a section that was park space but also designates and protects land along the creek as park space.
There were some comments during the public hearing on just making the whole area park space.
However, Mayor Wayne Price said it’s a cost the city wouldn’t have looked at.
“It’s a small piece of land that I highly doubt would ever be developed into park space. Why would we develop it into park space when you have all the park space around it,” he said.
“People don’t want their taxes going up. Develop a park and see what it costs to maintain that park going forward, that would be a cost to the citizens going forward. I think its is absolutely perfect value for that land and I think it fits really well within the council’s mandate.”
Council will now negotiate with the Rotary Club for the proposed seniors housing development on the land.
The Rotary Club had previously approached the city on finding municipal land that could be suitable for a seniors project.
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