Farming disappears as exceptions made to land use rules
I have been buying goods off the previous caretakers of the former Kozier farm for upwards of eight years including hay, fruits, veggies, chickens, eggs, beef and soaps — to name just a few.
Our house in New Remo is right on one of the Northern Escape Heli-Skiing flight paths and we are directly affected by the company operating out of the lodge on the former Kozier farm. The fact is they are using a back door approach to get rezoning. If they would have bought the property and applied to build a lodge before building it, would we even be having this conversation right now?
All the bylaw complaints regarding operating a helicopter out of a residential neighborhood went ignored the last couple months. They haven’t even had the application to rezone approved yet so they are getting away with operating an unsanctioned business on ALR land, that doesn’t align with the ALR regulations, with zero repercussions in this time before anything has been approved.
This is not a remote location where their dealings don’t affect people, this is in the middle of a populated neighborhood. This is why we’re so against this rezoning and upset that our complaints are falling on deaf ears. The amount of money that this type of tourism brings to our community will be minimal, the people that can afford to pay $100,000 for these trips aren’t going into town to spend any money in the shops that our community has to offer. The grocery and liquor stores, diesel fueling stations for the helicopters and John Forrest will be the only benefactors of these transactions.
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