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Tourism site up for debate

Tourism Kelowna's new information centre proposed for the foot of Queensway comes up for debate at city council Monday.

Before council is an application to rezone the site from parks and open space to major institutional.

The site is currently a parking lot, and, since there will be no parking provided at the proposed site, Tourism Kelowna will be required to make a $180,000 cash-in-lieu of parking payment to the city.

Tourism Kelowna has been looking for a downtown location for its information centre for several years – to replace the one on the highway. A previous proposal to place the centre in a revamped City Park was not received favourably by the public.

If the zoning change is approved by council, Tourism Kelowna would lease the property from the city.

The city would be responsible for water and sanitary service upgrades, while Tourism Kelowna would be responsible for storm service upgrades, shallow utilities and Queensway Avenue frontage improvements.

Construction of the new $2.8 million building could begin next year with an early 2018 completion.



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