Dear Editor:
Re: Rezoning of 13610 Banks Crescent.
With reference to the latest flyer:
1. The scope of the development has significantly changed from 380 units to 404 and is now predominately seven stories and not six. Doesn’t this significantly change the application?
2. The annual property tax revenue to the District is stated to be $400,000 while the district has indicated that it will only be $200,000 in its revenue analysis. With the scope of the project changing so frequently, how can we be assured what the gross revenue is and what the associated costs will be?
3. They plan to provide waterworks infrastructure to the hatchery valued at $600,000. That investment is insignificant to a hatchery that generates millions of dollars to the province. Has the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. approved this infrastructure? Does this presume that the water license owned by the District and its residents has been assured to them?
With reference to the petition:
There are a number of inaccuracies in the “Answers” published in the petition but the most significant one and at the heart of the matter is #7.
The last sentence reads: “The size and density of the development matches the Official Community Plan of 2015 that was decided upon by the District and its residents”.
That is simply not true.
If that was the case, why apply for the OCP amendment and rezoning of Banks Crescent? Have the developers been led to believe that the project complies with the OCP?
Isn’t the question before council to amend the OCP and rezoning of Banks Crescent?
I would sincerely like answers to these questions, rather than receiving the standard reply about “going through the process.”
There have been a lot of questions asked and not many answers provided as promised.
The process has been long and arduous and the developers are changing their plans and pulling out all stops the longer this process goes on.
I understand that all the T’s have not been crossed and the I’s have not been dotted, but surely you have enough information now to determine whether you are for or against this development.
Rita Connacher
Summerland