What’s next for Jumbo?
What’s next for mountain watersheds?
Join author and U.N. Chair for Water Bob Sandford at the Jumbo Creek Conservation Society AGM.
it’s annual general meeting time for the JCCS. Join us to learn what happened in the past year and to help set our future course.
The majority of East Kootenay residents have repeatedly made it known that we want Jumbo valley to remain wild. Your constituents are extremely disappointed, and feel betrayed by the August 7th resolution to abdicate the Jumbo decision to Victoria and request the creation of a new Resort Municipality, one whose provincially APPOINTED (as opposed to elected) corporate board will have access to public decision making at the RDEK level.
A Jumbo stab in the back?
An abdication of responsibility?
A way to rezone that erases the public voice?
According to Wildsight executive director John Bergenske, the recent RDEK vote on Jumbo has provided a great opportunity for residents who care about regional land use to discuss the vote with their regional directors.
Cranbrook, B.C. — The biggest land use decision the region has ever faced is being handed directly to the Province after RDEK directors voted eight to seven on a controversial resolution.
The resolution, brought forward by Sparwood mayor David Wilks, was that the RDEK ask the Province to legislate the proposed Jumbo Resort site as a Mountain Resort Municipality, skipping over the rezoning and public consultation processes.
