By Adam Berls

city hall

Council responds to all 33 OCP resolutions put forward in April

Jul 14, 2025 | 10:01 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — After two special council meetings were held in April regarding the Official Community Plan (OCP), city council has responded to the resolutions that were passed in those meetings.

In council chambers on Monday (July. 14) night, Mayor and council went through all 33 resolutions passed at the April special meetings. It took nearly two and a half hours to get through all the resolutions. Councillor Brian Skakun said this OCP review was “one of the most detailed” he’s ever been through, in his two decades on council.

Notably, one of the resolutions involved Moore’s Meadow. Council unanimously approved, directing Administration to submit a rezoning application to rezone the 4.4 hectare (ha) portion of Moore’s Meadow Park currently zoned as agriculture and forestry to parks and recreation. A resolution involving Ginter’s Meadow, that would see, the path that runs from 18th Avenue to Ferry Avenue, designated as “Parks and Open Space” on the Future Land Use schedule of the OCP.

Another resolution, which would amend the Urban Containment Boundary (UCB) would amend the Urban Containment Boundary to reflect the “Urban Area” of 2011. The proposed OCP includes a smaller Urban Community Boundary, with a focus on supporting existing neighbourhoods and infrastructure. Reverting back to the “Urban Area” of 2011, means, according to city administration:

“providing policy direction for predominantly greenfield development andsprawl to occur in the Blackburn/Giscome Area and Blueberry Hill Area that is:

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• Not infrastructure ready (i.e., there are no existing city services available to accommodate development).
• Where minimal or no development activities are occurring.
• Where housing development remains at a low density.
• Where limited or no access to a range of daily needs exist (i.e., childcare, grocery stores, hospitals, libraries, parks and open space, commercial services and schools).
• Where limited access to transportation exists (i.e., transit stops, transportation connectivity, and active transportation routes like cycling infrastructure and sidewalks)

Administration also highlighted that reverting to the 2011 plan, “the OCP policy may now inversely support sprawl to occur in these areas away from existing municipal infrastructure and services.” Councillor Ron Polillo was against reverting the UCB back to the 2011 plan, as it would “promote more urban sprawl.” Councillor Trudy Klassen said that by not reverting to the 2011 plan, would “impoverish” those areas and not “support development” in those areas. According to Mayor Simon Yu, growth in the Boundary Rd. area and Airport Logistics Park, would support and justify enlarging the Urban Containment Boundary. In the end, council voted 6-3 to not amend the Urban Containment Boundary to 2011 levels.

Administration will update the proposed 2025 OCP, these amendments will be returned to Council in the future to make an amending motion to the 2025 OCP Bylaw. Once the OCP is updated, a public hearing will need to be held to provide the opportunity for the public to comment on the amended version.

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