By Daryl Major

City of Parksville to undertake sprawling parks survey

Jan 31, 2017 | 9:02 AM

PARKSVILLE – The City of Parksville is getting a helping hand from Vancouver Island University with a big project.

The university will be assisting city staff with an expansive Community Park Master Plan and Parks Survey.

The city sees more and more demand for events at their parks and don’t really have the room to accommodate all the requests. Mayor Marc Lefebvre says the community park is on the radar for an international sand sculpting event.

“I said this at council that the Beachfest had been asked to host the worlds here in Parksville,” said Lefebvre. “Well we’re not quite ready for that yet because that would entail quite a bigger area. It’s in the summer time and you’ve got the challenge of housing people and that sort of thing. Eventually that may come.”

There will be a lot of collaboration and consultation involved according to Lefebvre.

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“It’s going to go on with everybody and that’s what we need,” he said. “We need input from everybody. We need input from the locals to start off with, our local citizens. We need input from visitors, we need input from the tourism industry. We need input from the chambers of commerce and everybody’s going to get a chance to get input into this.”

Expected to begin in February and last most of 2017, Lefebvre says it’s quite a project.

“This for us is going to be sort of once in a lifetime,” said Lefebvre. “We may do another one some other time but it’s going to be far off in the distance. So it’s important that we get this done now.”

daryl.major@jpbg.ca