Regional District
BOARD MEETING, JULY 24 Regional strategy priority projects
The Regional Board has endorsed the Regional Growth Strategy Priority Projects Plan. The plan creates a list of regional projects that will assist in implementing the Regional Growth Strategy over the next five years. Identified projects in the plan will be approved each year after consideration by the Regional Board during its budget discussions. The plan was reviewed and amended after comments were provided by local government Council’s.
Music festival not supported
The Regional Board does not support two separate applications made by the proponents of the Volim Valley Music Festival. The Board is concerned there are too many unresolved issues involving a variety of different agencies to support the Sept. 9- 10 festival at this time. The festival organizers applied to the Regional District for a temporary use permit for the proposed festival site at Heartland Ranch on Highway 33 East and to the Agricultural Land Commission for approval of a non-farm use at the location.
Kalamoir Park property acquisition
The Regional District Board has authorized staff to begin the process of acquiring untitled Crown land to add to Kalamoir Regional Park. Negotiations with the Province will involve 2.2 kilometres of closed road right-of-ways including the former McMillan Boulevard and a portion of Collens Hill Road.
No Regional Park right-of-way
The Regional District Board does not support a request to provide a statutory rightof-way through Kalamoir Regional Park. The applicant wanted to construct and maintain storm water drainage works through the park as part of a rezoning application to the City of West Kelowna.
Westside Road property rezoning
The Regional Board has agreed to a one year extension for a rezoning application from Tolko Industries Limited on an 8.7hectare property along Westside Road in the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area. The company is seeking a zoning in keeping with the future land use designation in the Rural Westside Official Community Plan and allowing a rural residential use consistent with the surrounding area. In July 2016, the Zoning Amendment Bylaw received second and third readings. The applicant continues to work on resolving outstanding conditions of the application.