An artist's sketch of the Brandt's Creek restoration.

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Buried in a Kelowna city council meeting under a mountain of jargon and five-dollar words is an important plan for the future of city’s north end of downtown.

Drive through that area today and you’ll see it’s already transforming. Once populated exclusively with tiny wartime houses, the area is being gentrified and replaced by huge homes and secondary suites.

Plans like this can be difficult to read and understand but crucial for people living in the area. It outlines projections for future growth and all the services that would be required to accommodate it.

Here’s a look at the plan by the numbers:

• 105: Number of pages in the document.
• 30: Number of years projected in the plan.
• 148: How many acres of land it covers.
• 1,600: How many current residents are captured in the plan.
• 2,400: How many people work in the area.
• 10,000: How many people are expected to move to the area in 30 years.
• 5,000: How many new homes anticipated.
• 10: How many new parks expected.
• 1: New school, but there are no plans for it yet.
• 0: The amount of integration with the nearby 40-acres of bare land on the Tolko mill site which is currently undergoing a plan of its own.
• $385.4 million: How much the city expects to spend over those 30 years in new roads, sewer, water and other costs.
• 29%: The amount of that $385 million expected to come from taxpayers. That works out to $111.65 million. The rest should come from developers.
• 8: Of April. That’s when you can check out more details and ask questions at a public hearing.

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