While the sauna was seen as a healthy and popular offering that went well with the trend of cold-ocean swimming, council has decided to end a temporary-use permit issued in January to Wildwood Saunas.
Josh Dupuis’s company can stay until March 31, but will have to move off Ocean Boulevard and the lagoon.
Wildwood Saunas had acquired a business licence and necessary insurance, and set up its trailer-mounted, wood-fired sauna in January, booking customers online from Thursdays to Sundays. Kobayashi praised Dupuis for his business model, but said Esquimalt Lagoon is “simply the wrong location.” He operated his mobile sauna at Willows Beach in Oak Bay periodically on weekends from January to September in 2022, before bylaw officers told him commercial enterprises were not allowed along the beachfront promenade.
Coun. Cynthia Day said the increasing popularity of the lagoon and special events is starting to take its toll on the area.
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