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THE MAY long weekend tradition returns to Kelowna again this year with the annual May Days celebration in Rutland. Look for the special supplement in today’s Capital News.
MAXINE DEHART salutes the milestone 25th anniversary for the Project Literacy Kelowna Society in her column today.
KELOWNA’S Jerod Zaleski will attend his first pro football training camp this year with the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes.
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THURSDAY May 17, 2012 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
▼ KELOWNA MOUNTAIN
Development advocates try to trump OCP Extra camera crews, buses, T-shirts and slogan buttons snag major attention for Kelowna Mountain project and its Donald Trump-affiliated supporters. Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
Technically speaking, the Central Okanagan Regional District meeting Monday night in Kelowna City Hall was to discuss the new official community plan for properties just outside the city’s limits in East Kelowna and the Mission. In practice, it looked more like a dry run for Kelowna Mountain’s paperwork debut, when developers for the mammoth four-season resort community finally apply for zoning and development permits on the project they’re already erecting in the Mission. Cameras were rolling—including those brought by the developer, KM lobbyists and investors—as three Greyhound bus-fulls of the development’s supporters filled the hearing space, foyer and the steps outside to reject the new planning document. But the regional district directors were not impressed. “It feels to me like an entire group was bused in to encourage us not to follow due process and I really have a big problem with that,” said Kelowna director Gail Given, addressing the sea of people sporting “Create 2800 jobs—stop the OCP” T-shirts. Those in support of the mountain resort want its existence written into the new community plan from the outset, effectively circumventing any new regulations which might delay construction. But the document before the directors does not include the year-round snowboarding hill, conference centre, vineyard, golf course, suspension bridges and trail system planned (and in many cases already built) for the property. Residents of Lakeshore, Chute Lake and June Springs roads—the areas the new OCP covers—barely got a chance to register feedback on the development constraints, environmental protections and investment guidelines the plan sets out as lobbyists for the mountain dominated the public comment portion of the even-
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