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FTHBP 2006-2008

 In 2006, the Mayor announced the First Time Home Buyers' Program that would take surplus school lands in Edmonton and build affordable housing for first time home buyers.  Brookview formed a committee and created a discussion forum inorder for the residents to share their views:  Here is a link to that forum

 

Here are some important documents  By reading through (from bottom up) you will begin to understand the problems that Brookview was faced with:
 

 

23. Here is a concept plot plan of the school/parkland area

22. At the very beginning, the provincial Government pushed through land deal through an Order-in-Council. Here is the original document that has 72 parcels of land declared. Some of the school yards are made up of multiple parcels and in order to allow the movement of the building pocket, it appears that all these parcels needed to be rezoned.

21. On October 15th, this e-mail was sent inside the City and copied to Bryan Anderson and Mike Nickel. This indicates that the FTHB program is moving on the fast track. We need to move now and fight this!

20. We requested to have the November 17 Mayor's report and meeting minutes release. It was originally sealed under FOIPP. This is what was sent to us. I am currently requesting that the Privacy Commissioner review the document and try to give more information. They will reply to me in January. Here is what the City released.

19. On May 16, This article appeared in the Edmonton Journal regarding the FTHBP and how the pilot communities are reacting

18. On April 2, BCAL sent out this letter to every household in Brookview regarding the status of the FTHBP and BCAL position regarding this program

17. This is from Russ Dalms from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues. He has had some correspondences with the City. As well this document has notes from the Jan 17 Meeting with community leagues that are affected by the FTHBP

16. This e-mail is in response to Dan Check's e-mail to the Councillors regarding point 13 and 13-a (below). It indicates that the school site was declared surplus already in 1994!

15. Here is an excellent letter to the editor from the Edmonton Journal on January 7, 2007.

14. The Terwillegar Riverbend Advisory Community (TRAC) had written a letter to the Mayor expressing concerns from the community's point of few regarding the process of with the Order of Council was used to push this rezoning of land through (see Item 3 below). This is the Mayor's response.

13-a. In March of 2006, this letter was sent to a resident along Buchanan Road

13. In January of 2006, there was a proposal to rezone the schoolyard to parkland Here is a proposed rezoning map. This proposal is listed as a status of "In Progress". The application # is 054326561-001. The interesting point here is that it appears that the school area had already been released

12. Here is the original plan for Bulyea Height (interesting read)

12a. This plan was recently consolidated and reprinted for Bulyea Height with all the amendments that were done to it over the years

11. Here is a profile of Brookview based on the census statistics[/url] (this one is big and could take a while to display)

10. Here are the minutes from the November 17 Special City Council meeting where the Mayor's report was placed into privacy under FOIPP

9. Here is the "freedom of information and protection of privacy act".

8. Here is the letter from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) expressing concerns as to the process used in pushing through the zoning changes

7. Amendment bylaw 14440

6. Amendment bylaw 14441

5. Amendment bylaw 14442

4. Recommendation regarding bylaw amendments

3. Letter to City from TRAC supporting Brookview

2. December 12 amendment to the Bylaws

1. City Policy C468 pertaining to the use of funds from the sale of surplus school land

 

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