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Powell River Association for Community Living (PRACL) is proposing to develop affordable housing and a mini-storage facility on a vacant Duncan Street lot. In order to proceed, the project requires amendments to the official community plan (OCP) and zoning bylaw, a subdivision of the property into two lots and a development permit.

Lilla Tipton, PRACL executive director, and Jim Agius, project manager, appeared at City of Powell River?s July 5 committee-of-the-whole meeting to answer questions about the proposal.

Tipton said the housing complex was an ?exciting, innovative idea. We want to try a new and unique idea of offering home ownership to the people who we support.?

Three of the units will be available for that, Tipton added, and the other unit would be for a caretaker for the mini-storage. ?Probably some of you are wondering why PRACL is getting into mini-storage,? she said. ?We are trying some new, innovative ideas around entrepreneurship and developing some ways of creating our own income. It?s our first step into that venturous world.?

Subsequently, at the August 16 meeting, council passed a motion to issue notice of a development permit to allow the development at 7025 Duncan Street. The application includes a request to vary the front setback from 7.5 metres to one metre for the mini-storage facility.

Council also passed the first two readings of an OCP bylaw to redesignate a portion of the property from commercial to urban residential. It also passed the first two readings of a zoning bylaw amendment that adds a definition of mini-storage and rezones one of the proposed lots from C1, general commercial, to RMS, compact residential select and the other lot from C1, general commercial, to C2, service commercial.

The city is holding a public hearing about the OCP and zoning bylaw amendments starting at 6:30 pm on Thursday, September 20 in council chambers at city hall. Council intends to consider the development permit during the council meeting following the public hearing.

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