Despite strong housing numbers, Kamloops to ask ministry to cut red tape
“From what we see, the staff in the different ministries haven’t necessarily received a memo saying we need to do our best to move housing forward. We think we have something with the province… we have had the Pineridge project which was basically buttoned up with the province last December and then they had another review. Well, that review is another four or five months,” said Kwiatkowski.
With those challenges in mind, Councilor Katie Neustaeter put forward a motion calling on the ministry to clear the many hurdles in front of the city.
“When we are pushing these things through at the municipal level and then hitting barriers that create two-year wait times that we can’t control at the ministry level, that is a significant barrier in our success in achieving the outcomes that they want to see,” Neustaeter told CFJC News.
- The biggest issue when you have an inept WOKE government is this level of incomitance.
I can imagine the council going in and asking to get these things cleared up to allow building and being told, " Yeah... were trying to create a really equitable and diverse experience here free of racisms thanks for coming in and take care ".