News Items tag as: Kelowna parks

This is how Kelowna could get new parks built sooner
June 14, 2019 - 4:02 PM

KELOWNA - A new waterfront park for Kelowna’s South Pandosy district could get built well before the 2027 timeline currently set out in city plans.
Kelowna city council exploring ways to fund roads, parks and civic buildings
April 01, 2019 - 3:07 PM

KELOWNA - Developers are going to be hit first but everyone paying to use a City of Kelowna service won’t be far behind as the city tries to dig its way out of its $478 million deficit for new roads, parks and civic buildings.
Central Okanagan’s largest regional park in line for funding boost
January 25, 2019 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - With support from senior governments, Black Mountain/sntsk‘il’nten Regional Park could get almost $1 million in trails and parking lots added over the next three years.
Why beach access, park development should matter to Kelowna voters
August 23, 2018 - 5:30 AM

KELOWNA - If Kelowna would properly fund development of the lakeshore parkland and foreshore lands it controls, there would be no need for a Walk the Beach protest, its leader says.
How Kelowna plans to fund its massive backlog in undeveloped parkland
June 14, 2018 - 7:30 AM

KELOWNA - Everybody loves a park and Kelowna councillors have proven no different, giving preliminary approval to new funding to build more green space.
New fee would make developers pay to construct Kelowna parks
June 07, 2018 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - Staff are recommending new ways to pay to develop parks in Kelowna including the possibility of a parks development cost charge on future developments.
Kelowna's ponds and marshes enjoying the end of drought
June 06, 2018 - 1:30 PM

KELOWNA - The water levels in many of Kelowna’s ponds, marshes and low spots have started rising and that’s a good thing.
Land rich but cash poor, Kelowna has a park problem
October 04, 2017 - 8:00 PM

KELOWNA - Kelowna has a park problem.
Kelowna councillors worried about park development queue jumping
June 20, 2016 - 1:00 PM

KELOWNA - The question of whether to help fund a single neighbourhood park turned into a larger debate amongst city councillors today, June 10, about the chronically underfunded parks development program and whether any one neighbourhood should be able to buy their way to the front of the queue.
Kelowna has too much parkland, not enough cash to open them
March 08, 2016 - 7:00 PM

DEVELOPERS PAY FOR PARKLAND BUT BALK AT PAYING FOR DEVELOPMENT
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