By Cheryl Jahn

Another Motel On City Hall’s Radar

Aug 29, 2018 | 11:29 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – Another local motel has caught the eye of City Hall and for the wrong reasons.

A special Council meeting will take place next Wednesday in Council Chambers, for a hearing into the Queensway Court Motel. The hearing is an appeal of the decision to suspend the business licence for that location, similar to the one held for the Connaught motor inn moret han two years ago. While the City and RCMP have declined to speak to the decision, one neighbour is pleased to hear the licence may be pulled.

“It’s about time,” says Mel Cookhouse, a neighbour to the motel, who says there is drug dealing and noise happening at the motel at all hours. “We’ve gone through meetings in the past, two years ago and [the City] said they were going to do something about and they never did.”

He says the dealings going on at that motel are impacted property values and overall quality of life.

On May 1 of this year, police were called to the motel in response to reports of a shooting at that location. At the time, police were asked if they were called to the motel often.

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“Historically, over the past few years, we’ve had an increased amount of calls to this particular address,” Corporal Craig Douglass noted at the time.

The owner of the motel would not speak to media.