Plans out for downtown loo
by Wayne Moore
Kelowna's planning department is reviewing detailed designs for a new pop-up bathroom facility to be erected on Queensway Avenue.
The bathroom was expected to be installed last fall after getting council approval in the summer, however, a delay in completing the detailed design work pushed construction to early 2020.
Director of community safety Lance Kayfish says if all goes well with review of the design, construction should happen in March, for an April opening.
Plans call for the two-stall washroom to be constructed behind the Kelowna Museum building. It will be built by Kelowna-based Secure-Rite in a shipping container format.
The facility will include two bathrooms and a mechanical room.
It will be staffed full-time during operating hours through People Employment Services, who use people with lived experience. They will be housed in a separate kiosk.
Kayfish says staff will have to sign off on all aspects of the building, as they do with any other application before it can be complete and open to the public.
The washroom facility will be located in the same area as a security pavilion was to have been located as part of the Queensway bus terminal expansion.