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.