Upcoming council meeting giving first reading to five bylaws

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on April 12, 2025.

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com

A light agenda on Tuesday will have Lethbridge city council being asked to give first reading to five bylaws.
The consent agenda contains three items from the Governance Standing Policy Committee of city council to address. Any or all consent agenda items can be pulled to be addressed separately by council in its entirety.
One bylaw council will be addressing regards the second phase of the Blackwolf development in north Lethbridge.
Bylaw 6486 — Land Use Bylaw Amendment addresses an undeveloped property at 2200 44 Ave. N. Its purpose to allow for an increase in  density for the site from a maximum of 37 dwelling units per hectare  to 75 for the development of one- and two-bedroom apartment units. The proposed Direct Control district will also allow for reduced off-street parking requirements.
Council will also be asked to direct City administration to conduct a public hearing on May 13.
A report to council by senior community planner Tyson Boylan says the site was previously rezoned from Future Urban Development to Medium  Density Residential to facilitate residential  development of  up to  37 units per hectare.
Applicant Brown Okamura and Associates wants to develop up to 65 one- and two-bedroom apartments on the site. And the applicant also wants a reduction on off-street parking to one space per unit and no minimum  number of off-street visitor parking stalls which isn’t possible under  a conventional land use bylaw.
Under the present land use bylaw, one parking space is required for each one-bedroom unit and two for units with two bedrooms or more, as well as one visitor parking spot for every six units.
The reduction is being proposed, says Boylan’s report, because proposed parcels of land for development wouldn’t be wide enough to accommodate more than two parking spots in the rear of those parcels and no off-street parking can be provided out front of parcels on that segment of Uplands Blvd.
The report notes that because no front driveways will be allowed, there can be a substantial amount of on-street parking in front of the site.
City staff have identified no transportation or servicing issues with the proposed DC district.

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