Welcome to the Cedar Main Street Design Project. Here you will find a variety of information on the planning process including various revisions of the draft Plan, as per the Regoinal District of Nanaimo (RDN).
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Background
During the Electoral Area ‘A’ Official Community Plan (OCP) review, the community expressed a desire to support community diversity, create and preserve community identity and a sense of place, and provide opportunities for local employment, services, and a range of housing types and sizes. In response, the new OCP includes a new land use designation titled “Cedar Main Street” which applies to the lands located on both sides of Cedar Road between MacMillan and Hemer Roads.
Uses supported by the OCP within the Cedar Main Street land use designation include local commercial, professional office use, personal service, residential, recreation, and mixed use which is of high quality design, is pedestrian oriented, and includes public space. The intent of the Cedar Main Street is to support a broad range of uses which are oriented towards Cedar Road and create a vibrant place where local residents can go to shop, access services, work, socialize, and participate in recreational activities.
The new OCP supports the creation of a Village Plan or other similar plan for lands within the Cedar Main Street land use designation. The Plan also includes general policies for these lands that are intended to apply as an interim measure until such time as a detailed plan is prepared and adopted by the Board. There was strong community support during the OCP review to include a design charrette as part of the Cedar Main Street planning project.
The purpose of the ‘Cedar Main Street Design Project’ (the Project) is to implement policy 6.2.2 of the new OCP by creating a detailed plan for lands within the Cedar Main Street land use designation. The resulting plan will be called the “Cedar Main Street Plan” (the Plan).
This is a public website created for the community of Cedar and its residents. This is not a Regional District of Nanaimo sponsored site and is not moderated by the Regional District of Nanaimo. However, the RDN has been advised of this site and they will be periodically checking what our community has to say. A link to the RDN Project Site: http://www.rdn.bc.ca/cms.asp?wpID=2503
