A staff report to Common Council on recommendations for amending the city’s heritage bylaw to clear the way for the held-up Irving Oil headquarters project in uptown Saint John says broader change for the infill development rules is needed to modernize it.
Mayor Mel Norton says that’s something the next council may want to seriously look at. He says early on in the PlanSJ process they talked about the South Central Peninsula as the best place to start with a neighborhood plan. Those neighborhood plans have not been implemented.
“In conjunction with a neighborhood plan that would be the best place at which to also review as a whole the heritage bylaw,” says Norton.
He says that would be so the neighborhood plan and the heritage bylaw are consistent with one another.
A public hearing on the bylaw amendment for the Irving Oil project has been scheduled for April 28.
