@ Wednesday,’ July 15, 1992

@ Zoning bylaws must
be incorporated in OCP
Neil Rachynski

NEWS REPORTER

Castlegar is being urged to
put some bite into its Official
Community Plan.

The committee in charge of
mapping the city’s future is
calling on Castlegar to incor-
porate firm zoning bylaws in
its new OCP.

“We would like to see this
OCP followed, unlike the pre-
vious ones,” OCP update
committee chair Walter Flux
said at an open house Thurs-
day. “They followed a zoning
map done before the last
OCP.”

An OCP is 10-year forecast
which enables a city to map
its growth and development.
For the past four months a
18-member committee repre-
senting all sectors of Castle-
gar has been given the task of
revising the existing OCP.

That committee, together
with the consulting firm of
Urban Systems Ltd. of

Kelowna, is proposing sweep-
ing change to Castlegar.
Changes they hope will be
adopted by council.

“The key is sticking to the
plan,” Urban Systems’ Ed
Grifone said. “Provided it’s a
good plan, communities will
have a better success rate
over the 10 years if they stick
to a plan rather than aban-
doning it.”

to bring the zoning bylaw in
conformity with the new
OCP.”

Grifone says an OCP and
zoning bylaws must support
each other.

“The real teeth in an OCP\|_

is the zoning bylaw,” he said
“It is how you achieve the de-
sired character for your com-
munity.”

Moore reiterated her sup-

“It’s a living document. What we had before
was a lot of flexibility.”

— Mayor Audrey Moore

Flux claims past OCPs
have been abandon, leaving
Castlegar in an zoning mess.

Mayor Audrey Moore dis-
agrees, though. She said
OCPs and zoning bylaws
aren't written in stone.

“We change it as we see
fit,” Moore said. “It’s a living
document. What we had be-
fore was a lot of flexibility.”

She says changes will be
made “ifit’s the will of council

port for a flexible OCP, react-
ing to Grifone’s comments by
saying “consultants don’t run
for election.”

Other changes proposed by
the update committee include
improvements to transporta-
tion within the city and di-
versifying the economic base.

The final draft of the 1992

OCP update is expected to be
tabled in September.

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