Association of Citizens for Summerland

Monday, March 07, 2005

Newsletter #2

I sent out the second newsletter last night. It's a way to keep up with updates to the site, and events or deadlines in Summerland related to development and the OCP. Add your e-mail address to the box at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar to subscribe. Here are some of the highlights I included this week:
I'm guessing that most of the readers of the site and this newsletter attended the public open house. Bill had a good post with his post-event thoughts, and there is a discussion emerging in the comments below. What did you think of the open house?

Council seems bent on a more aggressive growth rate than what the stakeholders recommended (and ramped up the rate of the first draft's 2%). I posted about the issue tonight, and this older post also some good discussion about what power council has to limit growth.

Tony Cooke sent me a copy of the "terms of reference" for the Stakeholders Committee and I added it as a comment in this discussion of the role of the stakeholders.

Our most frequent commenter, Frank Martens, put a fair bit of work into a couple of comments in the past few weeks, including an in-depth account of his exchange with council about an ALR exclusion. Scroll to the bottom of this post to read it.

In response to a post from a frustrated local orchard owner who wants his land out of the ALR, we got a comment from a successful orchardist who doesn't really agree.

2 Comments:

  • With respect to Jeremy's question about whether Council has the ability to control growth, part of the the answer is on page 26 of Draft 2 of the O.C.P.
    To quote, "The managagement of growth can take many forms and may include such measures as limiting the amount of land available for development, prescribing the type of development that can occur, and the conditions under which development would be permitted"
    Conversely of course, if Council makes lots of land available for growth and makes developemnt permits easy to obtain and relatively affordable it can encourage rapid growth.

    By Blogger tony cooke, at 8:00 p.m.  

  • That sounds more like it. This idea that council has no control over development struck me as absurd.

    By Blogger Jeremy, at 8:21 a.m.  

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