#1 – Development Variance Permits Approved
➢ After fulfilling the mandatory notice requirements and providing an opportunity for input from the public, Council approved the issuance of Development Variance Permits (DVP) #177 and #180 which both apply to 1691 11th Avenue. The Permits vary the minimum frontage, minimum parcel area and the minimum side yard setbacks stipulated in the Zoning Bylaw and will enable a proposed subdivision of the property to proceed. If the subdivision is eventually approved, the parcel will still consist of two legal lots but the property line between the two lots will be realigned in order to legalize the siting of the existing house and to allow another dwelling to be constructed on the vacant lot.
DVP #178 was also approved for Trico Freedom’s proposed Tamarack View (Phase 1) located at 1800 Railway Avenue. The DVP varies the maximum permitted height of multiple family residential buildings from 12 metres (39.4 feet) to 13 metres (42.65 feet) for four proposed fourplexes, two sixplexes and a threeplex.
#2 – Sustainability Funding Agreement Approved
➢ Council approved a funding agreement between the City of Fernie and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) for an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan Scoping Report. The approval follows a Work Plan and funding application that was approved by Council in May, 2007 and will allow the City to access $5,000 in funding administered by the UBCM and provided through the transfer of Federal Gas Tax Revenues.
The funds will be used to conduct a Community Assessment to assess the City’s readiness to engage in integrated community sustainability planning, to review current plans and capacity relative to community sustainability, to conduct an analysis regarding community sustainability and to prepare a community sustainability scoping paper that will create a framework for defining future sustainability plans and projects.