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THURSDAY June 26, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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Proposed hotel cruises past public hearing stage Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR
A proposed 210-room hotel, that its proponents and members of city council predict will become an “icon” in Kelowna’s downtown, easily crossed its second to last major hurdle Tuesday night. At a public hearing to amend the city’s Official Community Plan and change the zoning of Mill Street, which runs between the site of the future hotel and Kerry Park and which will be closed and sold to the hotel’s developer, saw only two members of the public speak out Tuesday night. And they were in favour of the project. The city said it received 65 letters of support for the project and just four against it. When it came council’s turn to speak, every member present —Councillors Robert Hobson and Maxine DeHart were abTHIS REALLY SETS sent—lavished praise on the proTHE BAR FOR ject and the company behind it, Edmonton-based Westcorp DeDEVELOPMENTS IN velopments. THE FUTURE. “This is a spectacular deKelowna Mayor sign,” said Coun. Luke Stack. Walter Gray “I know it will be a landmark building.” Stack was also taken—as were his colleagues—with the company’s public communications plan for the project, saying it set a new benchmark for developments to follow in the city. Mayor Walter Gray, who said Werstcorp owner Phil Milroy had been “misunderstood” when he proposed developing the former Willow Inn site at the corner of Queensway and Mill Street, and “not treated well in the past,” (by previous councils), deserved a lot of credit for sticking with his desire to see a hotel built on the site. “This really sets the bar for developments in the future,” said Gray. The 24-storey elliptical hotel tower, to sit on a four-storey base, required a height variance because the maximum height allowance for building in the area is 19 storeys. The rezoning
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RAINY spent the last watery days of June getting new shoes from farrier Brad Snyder, who trained in the Advanced Farrier Science Diploma at Olds College in Alberta before moving west. Originally from Saskatchewan, Snyder is one of many from the province flocking to the Okanagan’s sunny summers. JENNIFER SMITH/CAPITAL NEWS
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