By Craig Westcott
An application to build two six or seven storey apartment buildings in Long Pond between Bentley Place and the Don Hennessey Building is attracting the kind of public attention and questions that have in turn gained the attention of council.
Ward 3 councillor Gerard Tilley, who chairs the Town of CBS’s public works committee discussions, attempted to allay some of the concerns during the April 21 public council meeting.
Tilley pointed out the application to rezone the area to allow for the apartment buildings has not yet been approved and is the subject of a Land Use Impact Assessment Report.
"A lot of people have got a lot of questions," Tilley said. "Infrastructure, water and sewer, traffic – folks, that's what a land use assessment is for. We're going to look at all those different angles and council is making no decisions (yet). At this stage it's just about identifying those potential impacts, including traffic, access, road capacity, so we kindly encourage everyone, even though you may put your points down on Facebook, we don't look at them on Facebook, so make sure you go to our website and put down your concerns, if you have any, and we'll certainly take them under consideration."
The towers, if approved, will contain some 300 apartments and room for commercial space on the ground floors. The developer, BGI Group of Toronto on behalf of Revive Church, will need to consolidate three or four parcels of land measuring a total of some 6.7 acres with some frontage on Route 60, but most of the property is located between the main road and the T'Railway.
