Long-awaited spruce up of
downtown closer to reality

M@Focus of energies is to finish
refinements for the critical public
meeting to be held shortly

It is timely to summarize the activities to
date concerning the North Castlegar
Revitalization Project.

Through the numerous meetings, both
committee and public, it’s clear that all de-
sire an attractive business area free of over-
head wires or, as described earlier, “clean
and green.”

The focus of energies currently is to fin-
ish refinements for the critical public meet-
ing to be held shortly. ad of the financial
details are arriving

B.C. Tel and West Kootenay Power per-
sonnel have been very cooperative and al-
though final figures are not yet i in it appears
that the “worst case scenario” costs present-
ed at earlier public meetings will now be
much more favorable.

The City Voice

The 30-day period is to allow people in the
designated area who object to the project to
clarify their information, and, if desired, to
register their objection to the project pro-
ceeding.

Watch for notices in the press explaining
the procedure as well. If people have ques-
tions, concerns or comments following the
public Id

The city treasury is working up a
er model whereby individual frontage and
assessments may be entered to determine
quickly the impact on businesses.

The next critical step is the revitalization
“initiative.” In this process, city council must
approve a bylaw for the North Castlegar
Revitalization Project. The first three read-

nes

it’s imp
rangements to receive the information sep-
arately.

Bob Inwood is working on design guide-
lines for the revitalization area. Facade
treatment grants are available immediately
after the Project is approved.

Some busi people who want to start

ings of this bylaw will be in
followed by a 30-day quashing period and
then the fourth and final reading by coun-

CITY OF CAST.

Clean and green: City council will soon discuss
a bylaw for downtown revitalization.

facade impr before sid un-
dergrounding of overhead lines and so on are
begun early in 1992 may have a concept pre-
pared for their individual building in ad-
vance.

While id ring physical ch re-

ber to incl ibility improve-
ments. There is a separate grant available.

If you are travelling, try to include a look
at Summerland or Revelstoke to see how oth-
er small ities have pr ded with
revitalizing their business areas.

It’s important that all in the “downtown”
area attend one of the informational meet-
ings to view displays and receive current and
complete information. There must be a good
understanding of the scope and impacts of
the revitalization project.

The City Voice is a weekly column written
by City of Castlegar staff.

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