By Cheryl Jahn

Round three for the OCP

Apr 16, 2025 | 3:21 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – It has been several years in the making.

The Official Community Plan sets out the vision for the city over the next several years. Where does there need to be development, or not? And there have been two evenings of public hearings to date. Now Councillors have submitted things they would like to see changed. Councillor Brian Skakun has already put forward six amendments and more are on the way.

“ust for specific wording that has to do with remediation for contaminated sites and wordings like, you know, they must remediate to the shell. So there are just sort of some technical things. So I’ll make several resolutions and refer them and then Administration is going to come back and say, we can do it,” explains Councillor Brian Skakun.

“We don’t recommend we make these changes because of, you know, legal implications or something. But it’s going to be a good meeting.” More than fifty people – members of the public – have already presented to Council, looking at changes to Ginter’s Green designation, Moore’s Meadow, as well as some Urban Growth Management areas around the city.

And he is not alone in his plans to make changes.

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“Councillor Klassen has some, Councillor Ron Polillo has some. There are a number of questions. So we’ll see. But what we’ve tried to do is give all the questions to the Administration address, help us prepare them. So when we get to the meeting tomorrow night presentable and understand the bill and we hope we can just have a brief chat about them referring to administration, then they’re going to come back in two or three months. So this process, we might not be done until the end of summer.”

If indeed, changes are made to the original document, Council will be required to rescind the first two readings of the OCP bylaw and return the new document for another public hearing.

If Council opts not to proceed with changes to the document, it can move to the third and final reading.