City council weighed concerns of neighbours and the wishes of property owners in making servicing and setback decisions on what was described by councillors as a beautiful property and the envy of many in Salmon Arm.
High above the town and lake at the corner of 20 Avenue SE and 10th Street SE, the parcel is set to become, in three phases, a 34-lot single family residential subdivision. The owners, listed as E. and M. Byers and a B.C. numbered company, represented by agent Jayme Franklin of Franklin Engineering Ltd., were requesting three variances from council. They were granted two of three. One was to reduce the width of a panhandle portion of a proposed lot from 20 to 10 metres, and the second to waive the requirement to connect two proposed catch basins on 20th Avenue SE to the city storm sewer system. Staff reported two similar catch basins with rock pits exist to the east on the same street.
Council did not approve the request to reduce the minimum road width of the extension of 17th Avenue SE from 20 to 18 metres.