Directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) are going to wait before sending recommendations to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) on a proposed 13-lot subdivision on Largo Road in Roberts Creek.
MOTI, which has to approve subdivisions in rural areas, has suggested Largo should become a through road, linking Lower Road and Highway 101.
At the Feb. 7 planning committee meeting, directors voted to make sure MOTI was aware of “concerns received from the Roberts Creek Advisory Planning Commission, Roberts Creek Official Community Plan Committee and in correspondence from area residents related to the potential safety, traffic and noise impacts of the construction of Largo Road as a through-road.”
When the recommendation came to the SCRD board for endorsement on Feb. 21, Roberts Creek director Andreas Tize asked the board to also add that it supports the residents’ opposition to a through road.
“The APC, the OCP committee and the residents in the area have all said that this is a major concern that this might become a thoroughfare for local traffic and tourist traffic,” Tize said. “Their desire is for this to become a cul-de-sac.”
Tize added, however, that he wanted to hold off on making that recommendation to MOTI so all Largo Road residents could be made fully aware of the implications of a cul-de-sac option, especially the possibility that it might require widening the lower part of the road.
“That means that some of folks on lower Largo might lose the walkways, parking stalls, rock gardens, rights of way, and that kind of stuff that have been constructed on the [MOTI] right of way,” he said.
Elphinstone director Donna McMahon said the SCRD’s final recommendation to MOTI, if it proposes a cul-de-sac, should also call for some sort of pedestrian and cyclist access between the cul-de-sac and Highway 101.
The board voted to defer a final decision until they have more information on the implications of recommending a cul-de-sac instead of a through road.
