I’m wondering how this all fits into the “Grand Scheme” of things in Charlottetown? Is the a development plan for that area and, if so, does address residential and commercial development? (I know that area currently has some light industrial, is that going to impact the surrounding land-use making this a condo silo instead of a part of a community?)

Yes that rail yard land and port land was owned by CN Rail from 1918 – 1994. Before CN, it was owned by the PEI Railway, a federal Crown corporation from 1873 – 1918 and a provincial Crown corporation at the time of its establishment in 1872 until Confederation in 1873.

Not to mention that the Charlottetown port was owned by the federal government until divestiture in the 2000s. So the public has a huge interest in that land.

Should the city planning bureaucrats and councilors really be making such long-lasting decisions that is seeing public land developed by private interests?

Should we be blocking the public from a view of the waterfront from Water Street that has existed (even with the rail yard) from the time of Charlottetown’s founding?

And what of the storm surge flood inundation threat for that area? The city planning department still has not properly incorporated the LIDAR survey data from the devastating and record-breaking January 21, 2000 storm surge into the waterfront planning process.

The Pauli’s Wharf development and the condominiums built by the marine terminal (as well as the Founders Hall construction) only prove that this data and the federal study into sea level rise and future storm surge impacts by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada is being ignored.

All 3 of these developments are within the danger contour for the Jan. 21, 2000 storm surge flood level and will be in the extreme contour for storm surge flood levels once you take into account 100 year sea level rise of 70-100 cm.

Waterfront development in Charlottetown is extremely short sighted and ill-informed.

Who is the developer?