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Blind Bay proposal goes to hearing By Barb Brouwer
MARKET NEWS STAFF
Blind Bay Resort development plans are once again sparking community concerns as well as support. And anyone who has an opinion to voice must do so before or during a public hearing scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 at Sorrento Memorial Hall. At a July 17 board meeting, Co-
lumbia Shuswap Regional District electoral area directors voted unanimously to give Blind Bay Resort owner Dan Baskill’s development proposal second reading and send it on to public hearing. While Baskill maintains his development will benefit local businesses and encourage tourists to move to the South Shuswap, others are crying foul on various fronts – including the size and possible impact of his
proposed dock and the implications of putting 112 seasonal units on a foreshore that is zoned single-family residential. Baskill’s proposal had been turned down at a January board meeting, a move that caused an uproar among his supporters, who accused directors of voting on a project they had never seen. Normally, a proposal does not return to the board for at least six
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months without substantial changes to the application. “There was a lot of confusion and the directors brought it back on the basis of a two-thirds vote. You don’t want to use it willy-nilly but it is there,” said CSRD chief administrative officer Charles Hamilton of the mechanism that allows the early return of an application. “In staff’s See Plans on page A2