650 Homes for Dilworth Mtn

[alanjh595]

650 million dollar selling price houses made for the average Kelowna citizen on a salary of 46k a year.

$650 million dollar houses?

650 houses that would be attractive to those that can afford the price, and create 650 houses available to the lower income households, is more like it.

[bigtimeoperations]

How are they going to fit 650 housing units on that fairly steep hillside is what I want to know. Also what about the extension of Clement?

[occasional thoughts]

It is interesting to note that the rail trail is not actually on the rail bed until a point just before Dilworth Drive, going east. In fact, not on the rail bed anywhere all the way back to where the trail ends just short of the Rolko entrance between Km. 50 and Km. 51 of the trail.

[GordonH]

How are they going to fit 650 housing units on that fairly steep hillside is what I want to know. Also what about the extension of Clement?

Time will tell if those homes will end up at the bottom of that hillside.

[Scrobins94]

Agricultural land. Keep it that way. No exceptions.

[BC Landlord]

Agricultural land. Keep it that way. No exceptions.

Except, nobody has been working that land for ages. Before present times, pretty much all of Kelowna's urban land had been agricultural.
The same luminaries who are complaining about rezoning of this land would probably cry murder about the housing crisis. Can't have it both ways.

[normaM]

hotter than Hell there, again the area was ruined already. Interesting what will happen with traffic

[GordonH]

Agricultural land. Keep it that way. No exceptions.

Light green shading shows ALR lands, that hillside isn’t part of it.

[Symbonite]

I guess people like to see houses than trees as a natural landscape.

no more growing out...terrible will look like Vernon

[Panzer130]

Agricultural land. Keep it that way. No exceptions.

Light green shading shows ALR lands, that hillside isn’t part of it.

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Please be cautious bringing facts and details to a castanet forum discussion. You will leave nothing for these folks to belly ache about!!

[TedD]

It may not be under ALR, but leave it as a natural preserve.

[occasional thoughts]

Well there's the problem. The land is not "natural", it is grosly "modified" by previous human activity. If a hillside like that is not covered with our signature Arrowleaf Balsamroot ("Kelowna daisy") it is wrecked. If it is populated by invasive weeds, it is lost.

ETA: ALR designation and a civic zoning of agricultural are two different things. I'm feel that Kelowna is right up there with such environmentally conscious communities as Ft. St. John in wanting to plow all agricultural zones under the blade of better and higher (alleged) uses.

[Even Steven]

It may not be under ALR, but leave it as a natural preserve.

Why? What's so special about it? It's an empty hill that turns into a swamp. Oh my goodness, it's a national treasure!

[Lady tehMa]

On the plus side, maybe there is a chance all that development will chase the homeless out of there? I keep waiting for yet another fire caused by transients in that area (it's been so dry). Bad enough they burned down some of the area's heritage . . .

[Urban Cowboy]

I guess people like to see houses than trees as a natural landscape.

no more growing out...terrible will look like Vernon

Yeah because that hillside has so many trees on it.