LEDUC COUNTY -- The Central Nisku Local Area Redevelopment Plan has failed to receive its first reading.
The proposed plan -- which provides framework for the future development of Central Nisku -- will now be deferred back to administration for further modification after it was tabled at this week's council meeting. Some of the areas covered by the plan include land use, utilities, servicing and transportation. It also includes planning for business and hospitality along Airport Road, as well as business innovation located around the Business and Entrepreneur Center.
One of the areas not supported by County council was the proposed landscaping changes to the Blackmud Creek Area, which Division One Councillor Rick Smith spoke on during Tuesday's meeting.
"To plant trees in the flood plain might not be the best idea," said Smith. "I would like to have a referral motion to go to workshop, and have council a chance to go through and discuss the areas that we agree with, and areas that we may have concern".
Another area of concern raised by County Mayor Tanni Doblanko is the forbidding of single-use, large-scale warehouse and logistics uses within the development plan area.
"I'm not sure that's meeting my objectives," said Doblanko. "I'm concerned that this is a little more prescriptive than I thought it would be".
The Central Nisku Local Area Redevelopment Plan -- or CNLARP -- provides a land use and development policy framework to accommodate new and future growth, while supporting existing economic activities in the plan area over the next thirty years.
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