Revelstoke Times Review, November 28, 2012

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Rezoning could mean RMR golf course not likely for many years Unusual down-zoning application from resort to rural residential means only one residence allowed, proposed RMR golf course land could be Balkanized Aaron Orlando

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The Revelstoke Mountain Resort golf course as depicted in the 2003 Resort Master Development. An application to rezone a property at the heart of the course could Balkanize the plan. City of Revelstoke image

An application to rezone a 56-acre property slated for golf course development at Revelstoke Mountain Resort paints a picture of a links development likely to be deferred for years, if it is developed at all. On Nov. 22, the City of Revelstoke’s Advisory Planning Commission (APC) debated an application by Mck-Kids Holdings Ltd. to downzone the McKinnon Road property from Comprehensive Development Zone 8 to Rural Residential 60. If approved, this effectively withdraws the property from the Revelstoke

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Provincial government appoints Jumbo resort council Opponents say new Jumbo municipality with no residents a private land grab granted by Liberal government ahead of 2013 election NICOLE TRIGG & AARON ORLANDO Black Press

In an exclusive interview with Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett, The Valley Echo learned the B.C. government has issued the legal paperwork for a new mountain resort municipality in the Jumbo Valley by the name of Jumbo Glacier Resort. “As is the custom with a new municipality like this, we are appointing a mayor and two councillors,” Bennett said. The $450-million high elevation glacier based ski resort is planned in three phases and will ultimately include 5,500 bed-units in a 104-hectare resort base area. It is projected to provide approximately 3,750 people years of construction employment and create 750 to 800 permanent full-time jobs. Its newly appointed mayor is Greg Deck, and councillors

are Nancy Hugunin and Steve Ostrander. Hugunin is a wellknown local entrepreneur, mother and grandmother, and serves as the Kootenay Regional Chairperson for the BC Ski Association. Ostrander, a retired professional forester, is currently a director for the Columbia Valley Food Bank, the Lake Windermere District Lions Club and the Columbia Headwaters Community Forest Initiative. Deck was the first mayor of Radium Hot Springs when it incorporated and held that position for 18 years until retiring from office in 2008. “He also sat on the regional district board and was chair for many years so he has experience,” said Bennett. “He’s also very credible and is known for his personal integrity.” He stressed that Deck will not be working for either the developer or the province. Retiring chief administrative officer from the town of Golden Phil Taylor will

The location of the proposed Jumbo Glacier resort. Invermere Valley Echo file photo

be the interim corporate offer, and will spend the next few months creating an original set of bylaws for the new community and ensuring that the municipality is operational

by its official incorporation date of February 19, 2013. “He’ll work with Greg and the two councillors and it will operate the same as any mayor and coun-

cil,” Bennett said. “Everything they do will be subject to the Local Government Act and the Community Charter.” While the mayor and council will be responding to the developer’s requests for zoning and rights to build roads, streets and other infrastructure, the developer — Glacier Resorts Ltd. — will deal largely with the province in terms of the access road, construction of lifts, gondolas and so forth on Crown land. “I think it’s important for me to say that the Regional District of East Kootenay passed a resolution in 1996 to ask the province to create a mountain resort municipality,” Bennett said. “That resolution has stayed on their books for ten years, there was a brief period of a couple of years when they changed their mind and then back in 2009 they passed another resolution going back to the original one where they

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