{"id":124213,"date":"2026-02-26T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:11:06","slug":"firehall-zoning-passes-third-reading-my-east-kootenay-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124213\/","title":{"rendered":"Firehall zoning passes third reading : My East Kootenay Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernie city council has given third reading to the zoning and OCP changes that will allow the new firehall to be built on a portion of Prentice Park.<\/p>\n<p>The bylaw amendments just change the designation to allow Fernie Firehall as a key institutional use.<\/p>\n<p>Planning director Derek Cimolini said the changes would be necessary at any location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the location of the firehall, an OCP and zoning amendment would be required because the OCP and zoning bylaw were largely silent on emergency services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments will be up for adoption at a future meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The city is still waiting on the results of a legal procedure around the location before breaking ground.<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know! Don\u2019t miss out on breaking news and daily updates in your area. Sign up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myeastkootenaynow.com\/28495\/on-air\/news-alert-sign-up\/?swcfpc=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MyEastKootenayNow News Alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernie city council has given third reading to the zoning and OCP changes that will allow the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58262,58263,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-124213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-derek-cimolini","9":"tag-fernie","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}