On the home-page of the City's website, 29 Aug, 2014, under Public Notices:
Nelson Landing Neighbourhood Open House - Sept. 3 and 17, 2014, at 4 pm.
Clicking on that takes you to its very own page under the same heading and:
Nelson Landing Corporation is hosting a neighbourhood Open House for residents to review the proposed rezoning application for 1200 Sproat Drive - commonly referred to as "Nelson Landing".
Join the developer on Wed, Sept. 3rd or Wed, Sept. 17th from 4-6 pm on the site under tents. In the event of poor weather, an indoor location will be announced. Check here (www.nelson.ca) or on the development website ..... for updates.
Not only is this development poorly received by residents(?) and Nelson in general when initially before Council - asking for and promptly receiving a stack of variances based on "plans" then - now here comes rezoning! This time around expecting enthusiasm from same residents?
No matter what the proposed rezoning: this is urgently about (not!) selling! Thus surely requiring additional variances - and if so: probably receiving them. What with Council enjoying nothing more than an urbanesewhatever-density-mixeduse-taxrevenue variance!
This brings to mind the City earlier working out a substantial parking-variance for Nelson Commons - blatantly to save them money - long before even applied for. And what will happen to that variance - shorter, narrower parking-slots, etc. - if/when Nelson Commons goes away!
Not to forget Council's still unresolved Kutenai Landing fiasco. And the Civic.
Seeing that construction of Nelson Landing actually was to start over 2 months ago - depending on enough buyers' commitment - they're in a Nelson Commons fix: no customers, and they don't even need many for one building-unit - as contingency-planned! So now Nelson Landing comes-up with perfunctory we-care get-togethers obviously open to all and hint-hint just in case bring your check-book on a convenient for everybody Wednesday afternoon between 4 and 6.
And City Hall facilitates this private, for-big-profit, CORPORATE job, with giving it miles of free advertising on the taxpayer-funded City website. No matter how City Hall may justify this one - if at all! - it's a sales-pitch! And - be still, my heart! - standing by and ready to continue giving free, legitimizing updates: should the weather be too weathery and stuff.
Clearly - this proposed Open House (free appies?) should be prominently and paid-for advertised in/on/thru local news-media. It does not appear in today's (Friday's) Nelson Star - so it's on the City website's home-page only, and how many read that, particularly what with some items there routinely several months old. But - even if nobody (ideally for the developer!) shows up next Wednesday afternoon - the main thing: Can't say we didn't try!
I send an e-mail to Mayor Dooley, Council, Legal Eagle Long and CAO Cormack, expecting this ad to be pulled. By someone there there!
So do keep checking City Hall on www.nelson.ca for the weather. And if they did pull it.
And this blog for City Hall in brazen cahoots and could it get any worse - with an election imminent yet.
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