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City standing down on Maple Pool legal action Scott Stanfield Record Staff
Courtenay city council is prepared to suspend legal action against the owners of Maple Pool Campsite until the new year to allow a group of citizens the opportunity to bring the site into compliance with zoning and other regulations. Maple Pool — which provides low-rent housing for about 50 at-risk individuals — flooded in 2009 and 2010. The following year, the city initiated legal action against campground owners Dali and Jin Lin. The issue is zoning, which prohibits the couple from housing people on the property. Advocates fear that most of the
Advocacy group has until new year to meet requirements set by city tenants would become homeless if evicted. The Friends of Maple Pool has met with city officials to discuss options to address land-use and safety issues at the Headquarters Road campsite next to the Tsolum River. “We offered to fill the site up to the 200-year flood level to the bottom of the trailers,” group member Mike Hamilton said. “The wheels would still be below the 200 but
the floor of the trailer would be above. We said we could do that if they could see their way clear to give us the rezoning or drop the court case at least, and then call it legally non-conforming.” The case has already incurred a six-figure expense. The Local Government Act does not allow the city to permit the underside of a residential structure to be located below the flood construction level for the property, or to permit fill within a 30-metre setback of the Tsolum. However, the act allows the city to consider an exemption to these requirements if it receives a report certified by an engineer that the land may be used safely.
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THE MAPLE POOL CAMPGROUND has been at the centre of a legal battle between its owners and the City of Courtenay for more than three years. PHOTO BY TERRY FARRELL
Changing of the guard at 19 Wing
HOG WILD PHOTOS BY SCOTT STANFIELD
An estimated 2,000 motorbikes rolled into the Comox Valley for the sixth annual Cumberland Motorcycle Roundup. Friday featured wrestling at the CRI, Saturday was the Show & Shine (inset) and Sunday the Tom Carpenter Poker Run. The VanCity Stunters (main photo) were a popular draw Saturday.
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Col. Tom Dunne took command of 19 Wing Comox from Jim Benninger in a Wednesday ceremony at the base. Dunne is a dual Canadian/American citizen who has served five operational search and rescue tours. He COL. TOM DUNNE earned a Chief of Air Staff commendation for a search and rescue mission in Labrador in 2004, and a U.S. Coast Guard Achievement Medal for a counter-narcotics patrol in the Caribbean in 2001. He is serving a two-year term in command of the wing.
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