Coldstream Citizen Takes Council to Supreme Court

It has been a controversial development proposal from the start. Now there is a legal challenge to a major expansion of a senior's facility in the north Okanagan. The owners of the 'Coldstream Meadows' have been given the go-ahead to expand the 60 unit housing complex into a 270 unit 'campus of care'. But many Coldstream residents oppose the expansion, complaining the development is too big and there aren't sufficient services like roads and sewer. Now one of those residents is asking the BC Supreme Court to overturn Coldstream council's approval of the expansion. Don Henry alleges the re-zoning was not done properly and other approval processes were also legally flawed. The District of Coldstream says its lawyers are reviewing the matter.