A crowd of eager residents packed the OTS room at the Servus Sports Centre for the City of Lloydminster’s southwest area structure plan open house.
“We did have a great turnout to this event,” said Natasha Pidkowa, City of Lloydminster manager of planning on Jan. 29.
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She says while not every open house they host sees a turnout as good as this one, residents are starting to get more engaged.
“I think more and more, we are seeing community come out and vocalize an opinion and share their ideas,” she said. “It’s something that’s great to see and really appreciated by our planning team.”
Phase one and two of this project has been completed. Now in phase three, the city is focusing on sharing information with landowners, stakeholders and the general public.
“We had some great conversations with residents living in various areas of Parkview,” said Pidkowa, noting there’s land reserved for the Bud Miller Park expansion.
The structure plan gives an overview of what residents can expect in the southwest portion of Lloyd in terms of future development.
“The southwest area structure plan is a high-level framework that will guide future development of undeveloped lands in the southwest quadrant of the City of Lloydminster for approximately a 30-to-40-year time,” she said. “The intention of the approval of an area structure plan is to give residents, city council and developers security of the land uses that can be expected to develop in proximity to their lands.”
The study covered 15.5 quarter-sections of land in the southwest. The general boundaries of the study area include Highway 16, 75 Ave., 12 St. and Highway 17.
For those that missed the open house, information can be found on the city’s website.
“We actively maintain our project page at yourvoicelloyd.ca/swasp,” said Pidkowa. “Within that project page, they can submit a question, which will be shared with our project team. We also have a general email pl******@**********er.ca.”
She says the project team will continue collecting feedback from the public until Feb. 12.
“That period will close and the team will go into drafting the formal document,” she said. “In late March or early April, there’ll be a formal document, including policies, regulations, circulated to the public for review and comment.”
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