Public Meeting, August 11th - City of Charlottetown

Public Meeting of CouncilThursday, August 11, 2005Page 15Wayne Hambly: Thank you Mr. Mayor. Ladies and gentlemen, I certainly recognize andappreciate the comments that have been made today and obviously we’re not in business totry to put second class or to downgrade people’s homes in value. But I’d like to make acouple of points I think that deserves being made. All of these houses that were built onHunters Lane and in other areas were built there after Riverview Estates was there, wherewe wanted to be right next to them, and that Riverview Estates wasn’t in contention whenyou were making your decision to build your home on Hunters Lane then. If that was goingto bother your property values and your homes, it was already an existing community ofmini homes, why did you in the world build your homes there if its …Gloria Snow: Because the 64 acres of land was R1 zoned and we thought there would be abuffer…Wayne Hambly: Well, just.. thank you but I just wanted to make that point. Mr. & Mrs.Snow lived in our Riverview Estates for four or five years and thought it was a wonderfulplace to live…Gloria Snow: Yes, I did and ____Wayne Hambly: … and all of a sudden now its… something has happened … anyway, justback on point. The other point is that, and it’s to David’s point and I think he made anexcellent point about housing styles being graduated from one level perhaps through todifferent levels and if I could just show you here … the bright yellow which is right behindHunters Lane and right behind Parkwood Crescent, there are one, two, three, four, five, sixrows of building lots between their property and the property that we’re talking about. I’mtalking about six rows, stacked one on top of the other, coming from their land all the wayover to where the dark orange is. There is a phenomenal … there’s over 900 feet of landbetween that line and our rezoning request. That will allow six deep housing, regularbuilding lots, between that area and this area. I don’t … so, to David’s point, you’ve got R1,you’ve got R1S and now you’ve got MH. We already have MH there, so you can see thegraduated housing if you want to use that particular example, moving in a proper planningmode, going one to the other. We’re not asking to put that dark orange right up behindHunters Lane. I will admit in, whatever it was, four or five years ago when we did go backover for rezoning, we were going to just be one street away from Hunters Lane but nowwe’re six building lots deep away from any other housing and we’re right adjacent to likehousing. So …Gloria Snow: Excuse me Wayne, but if you won’t give us any guarantee .. we’re heretonight again after seven years for a rezoning issue. What’s ... you had Phase 1, Phase 2,Phase 3, and a future phase, if you get one area rezoned, what is our guarantee if you won’tgive it, that you won’t have like houses with like houses again?Wayne Hambly: Well, I guess the first guarantee you have is that this is a process that adeveloper has to go through to get rezoning. It’s not my choice. I may want it but if someCouncil chooses to… sees fit now to favour your resolution whereas I have absolutely no