Project for seven apartment buildings is slated to arise on a 35-acre former farm lot
A proposed development in Fredericton, New Brunswick will see the construction of at least 870 new housing units on a former farm lot, but the city government’s advisory committee on planning matters is petitioning for the project to not go ahead.
The project, which is to be spearheaded by Cedar Valley Investments, is slated to take place on a 35-acre parcel of land. The development calls for the construction of seven apartment buildings up to eight storeys tall.
However, in a unanimous vote on August 16, Fredericton’s planning advisory committee forwarded a recommendation for city council to reject the project’s rezoning application.
“To see a seven [to] zero vote is very disappointing,” Cedar Valley Investments president Louie Youssef said, as reported by CBC News.
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Locals have argued that the proposed development takes up a significant share of a private neighbourhood mainly comprised of detached homes.
One of the residents, George Filliter, said that the development will almost certainly bring in undesirable volumes of vehicular traffic.
“I know the proposal has a roundabout at the top of a new road that's going to be built, going on to Prospect Street west, and that’s fine for people traveling uptown, but the vast majority of people who work, work downtown,” Filliter told CBC.
“I’ve almost been hit several times by cars driving on [Golf Club] Road as is. The speed limit is not adhered to.”
