Three Point Properties

There have been three meetings in four days and I'll try to update the blog over the next few days. However, let us begin with Monday's Community Meeting with the development company that purchased the private lands on the other side of the Skookumchuck Narrows across from Egmont.

The land is a large private managed forest holding and much of the marketable timber was logged of when it was owned by Pacific North Woods Resources. There is a good map that shows the extend of those lands on the FOE - PNR website (click here). You will notice that the holding extends from Killam Bay, juts into Egmont Point, moves down the Narrows past the the Lafarge gravel mine and the rapids into Sechelt Inlet and ends two lots short of Highland Point. There are only a few areas were the property actually comes down to the water line: Killam Bay, two lots before Lafarge (but, the one with the 'million' dollar house was sold this year and the other is next to a noisy gravel mine), from the Earle Creek logging camp up to the SIB land holding and East Doriston where it picks up again until it hits those two Highland Point lots. Now, except for the logging camp which really is a beautiful setting and the east Doriston area most of the Inlet shore line is quite rugged.

The community's interest is those lands were twofold: a resort that didn't begin and logging that didn't seem to end; and PNR's pursuit of the crown lands of Egmont Point which we blocked. We learned that PNR had approached forestry at one point to procure Highland Point but the tenure there belonged to another company. So, now that trees are gone and Egmont Point is temporarily out of reach (another story), why should we care about this new company and its plans?

Well, TPP is interested in land on the Egmont side to use as a 'staging area' for the individuals who purchase its lots. 'Staging area' is a euphemism employed by developers to politely say 'we need parking' but it is crass to say so and FOE was taken to task for using the plain English version in a recent brochure. So, henceforth, FOE will use 'SA' when meaning 'parking.' So, TPP is on the hunt for SA in Egmont. TPP is in talks to purchase the Egmont Marina & Resort (EMR) for some of the SA and has approached Pete & Linda Dressler (PLD) for some of their property on the bluff above EMR for possibly more SA. But, how much SA does TPP need? Well, that is where the community comes into the picuture. We are to decide if TPP needs only EMR SA or EMR + PLD SA by letting TPP know how much development we would like to see over there. In other words, density + zoning = SA.

I'll stop here because I want to review the video of the meeting. We want to report the facts because we have promised never to write anything ever again based upon ugly rumours and offensive conjecture.