By Jill Sperling

Downtown Plan open house brings up questions around transit and architecture

Feb 21, 2019 | 12:55 PM

KAMLOOPS — About 75 Kamloops residents gathered Wednesday evening to attend an open house and discuss the future of Downtown Kamloops. 

The city is gathering public feedback as it reviews the Downtown Plan, last updated in 2005. At Wednesday’s meeting and panel discussion questions were asked about transit and architectural design in the city’s Downtown. 

“People asking about will there be more frequent transit, what about the option of having smaller micro-buses to bring people in from the suburbs to the downtown?” said Jason Locke, Community Planning and Sustainability Manager with the city. “Another one of the questions that came up was around design in the downtown and architecturally ensuring there was architecture with charm, so continuing to strengthen the identity of the downtown as being a welcoming, pedestrian friendly and lively place to be.” 

Locke says people continue to be receptive to various concepts introduced last summer, such as the 4th Avenue Pedestrian Plaza and making Seymour St. more pedestrian friendly. 

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“We were reintroducing them with some refinements that had been done. People like the ideas, wanting to make sure that the downtown continues to be lively pedestrian-friendly, options for people to live, diversity of housing options and what-not. It was a good showing.” 

An online survey closes March 18, at that point all of the information gathered will be used to prepare a draft plan for the downtown.