City council members voted unanimously to adopt the citySA国际影视传媒檚 updated zoning bylaw, March 14.

SA国际影视传媒淚, overall, am quite happy with where weSA国际影视传媒檝e gotten,SA国际影视传媒� city councillor Julian Morse said. SA国际影视传媒淚 think that administration, in working with the consultants to update our zoning bylaw, worked really, really hard to modernize it.SA国际影视传媒�

SA国际影视传媒淚tSA国际影视传媒檚 hard work, it really is, thinking about all the moving parts that are involved with a zoning bylaw, how itSA国际影视传媒檚 gonna affect later on,SA国际影视传媒� city councillor Stacie Smith also stated.

The draft of the zoning bylaw was unveiled on Aug. 24, 2021 and proposed rules that sought to update bylaws in compliance with the 2020 Community Plan.

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Mayor Rebecca Alty issued a statement regarding the countless hours that were put into what will be a SA国际影视传媒渓iving documentSA国际影视传媒�, and how navigating public consideration is a road not easily travelled.

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Before being officially passed, the zoning bylaw had received additional amendments during the Governance of Priorities Committee (GPC) meeting that took place on the afternoon of the same date (with 18 amendments in total being made over the course of different meetings relating to the bylaw).

This was done to make final changes to assist in addressing comments which were made during the statutory public hearing on Nov. 27, 2021 of which 29 written comments and 13 oral submissions were received (according to the CitySA国际影视传媒檚 official website).

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SA国际影视传媒淚 know that thereSA国际影视传媒檚 some residents who arenSA国际影视传媒檛 happy with some aspects of this, but I do believe that the zoning bylaw as a whole is a good thing for our community,SA国际影视传媒� said Morse.

SA国际影视传媒淢any people in the public have weighed in and given lots of thoughts and comments, at the hearing, written comments, surveys, open houses, etc,SA国际影视传媒� echoed city councilor Shauna Morgan. SA国际影视传媒淪ometimes people only see the sliver of the zoning bylaw that theySA国际影视传媒檝e been focused on or concerned about, but this is a huge piece of work and administration has been looking at all aspects of it from all angles.SA国际影视传媒�

City councillor Niels Konge also spoke on how the zoning bylaw should be viewed as a living document (as mentioned above).

SA国际影视传媒淲e are making this document the best that we can to our ability today,SA国际影视传媒� he said.