THE Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is still to decide if it will grant permission to the owner of the building at Robb and Camp Streets to construct a seven-storey building. Mayor Patricia Chase-Green, at Monday’s statutory meeting, observed that a ten-storey building can be found on the same Camp Street, opposite the Georgetown Club, and hence there should be no discrimination in the process.
She also noted that this is not the time for the M&CC to be holding up development in the City and the creation of employment.
“I don’t understand why we would object to a seven-storey on Camp and Robb Streets, but if you go further down on Camp Street, you would see a 10-storey building. How do we say no to seven and yes to 10? I don’t know what were the criteria used,” Chase-Green expressed.
The owner would have already completed all the works and documentations he needed to have, and it is before the Council for approval for the seventh storey.
Initially, he had applied for a six-storey building, and in the process, decided he wanted to have seven stories.
He was then advised by the former mayor to go forward with the six-storey building, and then come after with the seventh.
Chase-Green said that as a result, there would have been some hiccups and some objections from both the M&CC and the Ministry of Housing.
“In my understanding, the Ministry of Housing is talking about the skyline limit. The skyline limit, to my knowledge, is 150 feet, and the building at Robb and Camp only reached 98 feet,” said the Mayor.