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By James Peters

North Shore Housing

Council okays 344-unit housing development for Ord Road

Oct 7, 2025 | 3:28 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops council has cleared the way for hundreds of new housing units to rise along Ord Road.

At Tuesday’s regular meeting, council passed zoning amendments that would allow a 344-unit development at 1100 Ord Road, the site of the former Yellow Cabs lot.

Councillor Nancy Bepple praised both the influx of new housing to the North Shore and a proposed multi-use path leading from the property east to Eighth Street.

“The number of units, 344, is more than all the trailer park units from Eighth (Street) all the way to McLean (Street) on Ord Road,” said Bepple, “so this is a phenomenal number of units, in terms of housing.”

ARPA Investments is planning to split the housing between three buildings. Two of them would each contain 119 rental units. The third would contain 106 units of seniors housing.

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Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson noted the influx of new residents will put greater demands on Ord Road itself, which is narrow and busy. He noted the crash that took the life of a BC Transit driver last week.

“We will be looking at what sort of upgrades may be required if we make that, say, a permanent dangerous truck route — just looking at some of the corners, the widths and that sort of thing,” responded Development, Engineering and Sustainability Director Marvin Kwiatkowski. “That will be coming in the future with [a] truck route study.”