A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.
Mayor Garry Litke got a very small taste of life on the streets of Penticton in a wheelchair, complete with all the bumps and jars the disabled have to take as they navigate the streets and sidewalks of the city.
Emails won’t be replacing good old-fashioned sit-downs at Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) meetings anytime soon. But local politicians are still exploring ways to make decisions more efficiently when it comes to smaller issues.
A collection of 23 vintage Canadian rail coaches as well as one infamous locomotive stored in a New Westminster warehouse is in danger of being broken up.
A complete overhaul of Nelson’s land use and zoning bylaw is ready for public review. City planners have spent more than a decade revising the original 1987 bylaw, which regulates municipal development issues like land use, density, building size and off-street parking.
A program to allow secondary suites to be legalized in Burnaby will start in January but will not be enforced until Jan. 1, 2015. That will allow time to educate the public and implement the program, said city council, which gave the go-ahead to the program Monday.