iN VIDEO: A vision of what Kelowna may look like in the future
As Kelowna is rapidly growing its downtown skyline is constantly changing with a handful of highrises now under construction and many more in the wings.
What the downtown skyline will look like in 10, 20 or 40 years is still undetermined but this video shows what it could be.
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The video was created in 2018 and posted to YouTube by Alpin Martin, a national firm focused on civil engineering, urban planning and architecture, with an office in downtown Kelowna.
The video shows some of the current developments but also looked at the zoning in place at the time, considered the 50,000 people who were expected to move to Kelowna in the next 20 years, looked at things like density floor area ratios and created the model as part of a Urban Development Institute convention called Our Future City, Ben Rawlinson, project manager for Alpin Martin's Kelowna office told iNFOnews.ca.
Because of the time it was made, it doesn't include the proposed development of either the UBC Okanagan or Tolko Industries sites.
It includes an image of the Golden Gate suspension bridge in San Francisco crossing Okanagan Lake at the north end of downtown, which is to scale and a perfect fit, Rawlinson said.
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