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City Of Kelowna 2023
Changes at airport mean more flights directly over southern Kelowna
In order to make landing aircraft more reliable at Kelowna International Airport during bad weather,…
Housing crisis prompts Kelowna to consider tightening restrictions on short-term rentals
There are hundreds of illegal short-term rentals in Kelowna that are impacting the long-term rental…
Kelowna city council battles over climate crisis declaration
A resolution asking Kelowna city council to declare a climate crisis sparked a fractious debate…
Future of highrise on former Kelowna RCMP site to be decided in court
The future of a highrise on city-owned land in downtown Kelowna is now in the…
Organizer of anti-COVID rallies in Kelowna says injunction efforts violate his Charter rights
It has been months since the City of Kelowna filed for an injunction to stop…
120 tiny houses planned for homeless people in Kelowna
To help reduce the number of people sleeping rough in Kelowna, the province is going…
Kelowna city council urged to declare a climate crisis
There's no way the City of Kelowna is going to meet its greenhouse gas reduction…
Failed three-tower project comes back to Kelowna council with one tower
In July of 2022 the City of Kelowna rejected a proposal by Safari Capital to…
Kelowna mayor refuses to comment on $242 million loan for recreation improvements
The opposition to the alternative approval process to approve a $242 million loan to rebuild…
It’s unclear how Kelowna will tackle housing homeless people this winter
As the autumn leaves are falling and we edge closer to winter it remains unclear…
How Kelowna is showing the nation how to speed up new home construction
It's been a decade since the City of Kelowna overhauled its building permit system to…
New $1.5 billion building permit record makes Kelowna #4 in BC
Kelowna is likely to pass the $1.5 billion mark in building permits issued this month,…
How Kelowna expects to pay a $241 million loan at only $100 per household per year
Opponents cite numerous reasons to sign petitions against a $241.3 million loan to build and…
Speed up housing builds by getting the province out of the ‘roads’: Kelowna planner
The federal government has given builders a major boost by eliminating the GST on rental…
Plan for development of Tolko Mill site on Kelowna lakeshore ‘really underwhelming’: city councillor
While many Kelowna city council members had high praise for concepts presented to them today…
What you see is not necessarily what you’ll get with Kelowna’s Tolko plan
The final design for the redevelopment of the Tolko Mill Site in Kelowna is still…
Kelowna ‘pre-zoning’ hundreds of single family homes for fourplexes to meet housing demand
Hundreds if not thousands of single-family lots in Kelowna will be "pre-zoned" likely by the…
City of Kelowna wants to get more employees out of their cars – in 2025
As congestion continues to build on Kelowna roadways the city is, generally, avoiding building more…
Parking at Prospera Place in Kelowna to be cut drastically if three highrises built
When Prospera Place was built as the home of the Kelowna Rockets in 2019 it…
Long-awaited plan for Kelowna Tolko site includes 3,500 homes, parks, waterfront walkway
The long-awaited Tolko Mill Site Area Development Plan is going to Kelowna city council with…
Cows could be newest tool in Kelowna’s wildfire mitigation efforts
An unlikely hero has appeared in climate crisis and resulting wildfire emergencies in BC: cows.…
City of Kelowna workers get 12% raise over next two years
A new collective agreement has been ratified between the City of Kelowna and its unionized…
Developer sues City of Kelowna for stalled controversial downtown highrise
After spending more than $10 million trying to develop city-owned land in downtown Kelowna, a…
Ten-fold annual increase in subsidized housing needed in Kelowna
Building enough new homes for people to buy is keeping pace with the demands of…