LDA19-0280 Wellington/McArthur Industrial Rezoning (14125-137 Avenue NW)

I highly support the proposed rezoning, and the supportive housing concept. While the RA8 zoning might seem a bit intense given the surrounding zoning, this is such a unique site that is really will have very minimal impact on adjacent areas.Of course, the benefits of the supportive housing concept far outweigh any concerns about the zoning intensity. Frankly, we need many more of these projects to effectively address our housing issues. This is a great start, with a promising model, and the city has done effective due diligence with its Good Neighbour plans for these developments. No neighbourhood could have been expected to love the idea of 'going first' with these developments, but the city has gone to great lengths to mitigate concerns and impacts. It might seem a bit trite, but the city should also make sure it invests in great architecture for these developments - previous cut-rate social housing developments are a huge reason for the resistance that is often expressed towards new proposals. Great looking, well-maintained buildings are hugely important to building and maintaining support for these projects.

Considering this area is comprised of residential houses , i think there should be no commercial development in the building at all , as it brings in more traffic problems that are already an issue here. it is bad enough already , and when you add staffing needs and such ,i think a better location could have been chosen . bad enough you are taking up one of the few green spaces in the area .

don’t like the area chosen

My advice for rezoning is to rezone this project for somewhere else.As already stated we are a community that is blocked community without many ways in or out. There is no direct access out from that location to a main street. As such these individuals and friends and their dealers will have to travel through our community to access thoes routes, through our kids playgrounds and school yards. This is irresponsible, keep your drug addicts, criminals & pedophiles out of our community please. We too have trauma and work hard to support our homes and families.We already have too much criminal activity in our area which nothing gets done about so why add more ? We should not have to lock up our yards and homes, Our taxes are to go to infastructure and services to support our communities of which we get so little back. Our sewers are crumbling (yes, I know city off loaded this to Epcor to band aid), roads & alleys need repairs, that money should go to support our children (bring back community halls & programs) so that they don't become the people you wish to support with their life choices & drug issues. I personally do not wish my taxes to support them as they are still using. What ever happened to personal responsability and choices in our society that it is now the taxpayers responsability to pay for them when we are just getting by ourselves and trying to build a better life for ourselves and our children. Mr. Iveson just stated the police are "tone deaf"and should be transparent ... Well I would also say he is tone deaf, this community does not want this project, and the city using the Covid-19 shut down as a way to push through the projects are not transparent, these talks happening only during noon-2 as people try to work to earn back their losses and get the kids back to school safetly. And to say Covid-19 prevents proper in person hearings, then the projects should wait till democratic rules apply. City Council persons should be on notice for their next term bid before rubberstamping these projects.