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Zoning change means dorm design for Okanagan College in Salmon Arm will begin

Construction of student housing expected to begin in 2022
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This conceptual rendering shows 60 units of student housing at the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College. (Okanagan College image)

The way has been paved for a dormitory at Okanagan College’s Salmon Arm campus.

On Dec. 13, city council gave final approval to a text amendment to the city’s P3, institutional zone that will allow dormitories.

“If adopted, Okanagan College will be able to build a dormitory on the campus site,” said Kevin Pearson, the city’s director of development services. “They’re waiting for positive approval – if granted, they’re going to start the design stages for this building.”

The amendment passed unanimously.

The 60-bed dormitory will be built in the northeast corner of the campus, where the roundabout at the entrance now sits.

In a previous report, city staff said construction of the building is expected to begin in the summer of 2022 and be completed in the winter of 2024.

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Martha Wickett

About the Author: Martha Wickett

came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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