Provincial funding going towards roundabout, airport and park projects in Vernon

Mar 12, 2024 | 6:00 AM

Four major capital projects are planned for Vernon thanks to provincial funding.

Through the B.C. Government’s Growing Communities Fund, the city has received over $5.6-million in grant funding for capital projects.

Of that total sum, $2,657,950 will be used to build a roundabout at the Pleasant Valley Road and 39th Avenue intersection.

“Everybody who lives in the East Hill will be not quite so happy with us, I suspect, this summer because that’s going to be dug up, but we’re putting in a roundabout which is great,” Mayor Victor Cumming told Vernon Matters.

“The roundabout has been on our to-do list and we’ve been completing the design and purchasing the small bits of property that we need to there. All of that’s done, all of that’s ready to go, now it’s been contracted, so I’m looking forward to seeing that intersection dug up and fixed and quickly made into a roundabout.”

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Another $2-million will be used for upgrades at the Vernon Regional Airport’s Taxiway Charlie.

“The airport [work] has been on a plan we’ve had for almost a decade now,” Cumming said, noting it would improve the functionality of the airport.

Additionally, $500,000 of the funds will be used to upgrade the playground at DND Park, and the remaining $500,000 will be used for irrigation and hydraulic system upgrades at both the DND Grounds and Lakeview Park.

Cumming did not have timelines for the projects on hand, but did state the roundabout project work would begin sometime in the summer.

by Liam Verster

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