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City hoping to open up new residential areas

CORNER BROOK Corner Brook city council dealt with several land issues during a recent public meeting, including the purchase of a parcel of land that is hoped will facilitate connecting MacDonald Brown Drive with O’Connell Drive.

Council approved the purchase of a 0.417-acre piece of land from the company Harris and Roome at the intersection of O’Connell Drive and Boone’s Road at the appraised market value estimate of $59,050.

The city will need to make further land acquisitions between that parcel of land and the intersection of MacDonald Brown Drive and the top of Carberry’s Road in order to open up the entire area for development.

Dale Park, the City of Corner Brook’s director of corporate services, said there is still about 11.5 acres the city would like to acquire from four different land holders in that area.

He recently told council at a public meeting that those other land acquisitions are hoped to be made in the coming year and that the area will be ready for development some time in 2012.

Some of the development may be able to proceed before all of the land is acquired, according to Park.

When opened up, the area is expected to accommodate around 300 residential lots.

Meanwhile, the city has advertised a request for proposals for the sale of 4.6 acres of land located at the top of Wheeler’s Road, across from the long-term care duplexes operated by Western Health.

The property is raw land that has never been developed. Although it is currently zoned as a residential medium-density zone, the city will consider rezoning if an appropriate development is proposed.

Source: http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/L...ential-areas/1