West Kelowna’s future may include 19-storey highrises

With a colonisation of astir 40,000, West Kelowna, B.C., is simply a rapidly increasing community.

That maturation whitethorn beryllium heading upwards arsenic the metropolis considers a large update to its gathering tallness regularisation bylaws.

Darrell Kendall is simply a longtime West Kelowna nonmigratory who has watched the assemblage alteration and turn for the past six decades.

“A small one-horse municipality into the highway-splitting the assemblage and of people they are gathering each these condos everywhere,” Kendall told Global News.

Those condo buildings could beryllium getting taller arsenic the metropolis works connected updating its zoning bylaws.

Right now, the highest buildings successful the metropolis are six storeys but aboriginal improvement whitethorn see ones arsenic gangly arsenic 19 storeys successful the bosom of Westbank, the community’s downtown core, 15 conscionable extracurricular that halfway and 12 farther out.

“No thought that they were adjacent considering thing similar that,” Kendall said. “Just seems similar mode excessively much, mode excessively much.”

Council has shied distant from gathering mode up successful the past but with densification needed, a alteration successful absorption could beryllium connected the horizon.

City spokesperson Jason Luciw said assembly is expected to person a study astatine its regular gathering adjacent week.

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Luciw added that the metropolis volition remark further erstwhile assembly has had a accidental to deliberate connected the projected changes and supply absorption to staff.

“I consciousness similar it’s going to artifact each of this, no, I’ve been present forever, my full life.  I similar it similar this,” West Kelowna nonmigratory Krissy Smith said.

“If it is going to assistance with the stateless contented and outgo of surviving past you got to bash what you got to do,” said Patti Winslow, besides a West Kelowna resident.

The substance volition beryllium earlier assembly connected Oct. 8.