Last Updated: July 10, 2008
DEVELOPMENTS SECTION
Lot 6 Links
- Site Identification
- Environmental Overview
- Wildlife Corridors
- Trails Overview
- Traffic Overview
- Infrastructure Overview
- Memorandum of Understanding
LOT 6 REPORTS
- Lot 6 -Terms of Reference
- Ecological Assessment and Habitat Planning
- Ecological and Habitat Mitigation
- Storm Water Management
- Sanitary Sewer Study
- Short Term Septic Study
- Water and Fireflow Study
- Transportation Analysis
- Residential Market Analysis
- School Impact Report
- Memorandum of Understanding
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Lot 6 – Adding to Cumberland’s retail profile
Occupying a strategic position along the Inland Island Highway and south of the Comox Valley Parkway, the development of Lot 6 is planned to support the Cumberland’s OCP vision of increased commercial development along the Highway. With a focus on medium-to-large format retail, Lot 6 will add a variety of goods and services to Cumberland’s retail mix, the largest of which cannot be offered in the core of the Village due to store size and parking requirements.
Lot 6 Concept Plan
Trilogy’s Master Plan illustrates a series of retail stores comprising a total development area to a maximum of 350,000 square feet, with the largest of these retailers occupying up to 140,000 square feet of store area. In the remaining square footage, smaller merchants with small-to- medium size premises will help buffer the visual impact of larger-format stores, at the same time benefiting from the traffic that these stores generate.
While Trilogy’s Master Plan does not currently contemplate any residential development on Lot 6, the zoning bylaw will allow the development of low-rise condominium apartments and townhouses in place of commercial, to a maximum of 100,000 square feet.
Providing convenient and safe means of access
Trilogy’s transportation plan for its development east of the Inland Island Highway (including Lot 6) is designed to offer convenient and safe access and egress to all visitors, whether coming from the Village of Cumberland itself, or from other Comox Valley/ Vancouver Island locations.
The proposed retail development on Lot 6 will result in the construction of a new internal roadway bisecting Trilogy’s Lots 5, 6 and 7, connecting to the Comox Valley Parkway at the north end, and Royston Road at the south via signalized intersections. This new “Cumberland Parkway” (which is illustrated in the Master Plan with a triple row of trees) is planned as a divided four-lane arterial road, with additional left turning lanes along its length providing safe and clear access to the retail.
Trilogy’s Master Plan calls for the construction of an off-ramp from the Inland Island Highway serving northbound traffic, which bisects Royston Road before connecting to the new Parkway. This off-ramp will provide an alternate route from and into the Comox Valley, decreasing congestion at the existing Comox Valley Parkway Interchange.
Grant Road will be improved as part of the development process; providing improved access to both the Trilogy-owned lands and the non-Trilogy lands adjoining it.
The Lot 6 plan provides for a minimum 30 meter green setback for all development bordering the Inland Island Highway. A dedicated path within the setback will link with the Village trail system through Lots 5, 6 and 7, ensuring that pedestrians and cyclists are also able to travel safely from the Village core to the lands east of the Highway.
Photo: The Village of Park Royal in West Vancouver illustrate how medium-to-large format retail can be designed to reflect a Village environment. Here, Home Depot, Whole Foods, Old Navy and Home Sense are accessible to both pedestrians and vehicles, and are complemented with street-side coffee bars, park benches, and a broad green buffer.
Lot 6 Overview
Zoning Designation
- Current: RU-1
- Proposed: CDMU-2
Permitted Principle Uses
- Restaurant, deli and coffee houses;
- Retail convenience store;
- Retail sales including grocery store;
- Theatres and family entertainment centres;
- Banks, insurance and financial institutions;
- Business, professional and government offices;
- Caterers;
- Emergency services;
- Motels;
- Institutional use;
- Public assembly uses;
- Licensed premises;
- Liquor outlet;
- Automobile Service Station
- Automobile sales, rental , service and repair
- Recreation Vehicle sales, rental, service and repair
- Recreational Boat sales, service and repair
- Personal service establishment;
- Printing and reproduction shops;
- Veterinary clinic;
- Utility use;
- Park use.
- Townhouses, rowhouses and apartments, including multi-family flex units;
Permitted Accessory Uses
- Home occupation use;
- Residential use forming an integral part of a principal commercial use;
- Accessory buildings and structures.
Community Impact Report
- Community Impact, Lot 6
(June 2007)