Three levels of government will be represented Friday as residents along Lakeshore Road continue to protest a proposed gravel pit in their neighbourhood.

Okanagan-Westside MLA, Rick Thorpe, Kelowna Councillor, Brian Given and Regional District Director, Patty Hansen will meet with area residents Friday afternoon.

The three will tour the area before speaking with assembled residents at the entrance to Okanagan Mountain Park at about 2:30.

Residents have been fighting Eagle Mountain Aggregate since the company made the application for the gravel pit near the end of lakeshore Road in February, 2007.

"I don't know if you spend a lot of time on Lakeshore Road, but every year they come to repair the road because parts of it slide into the lake," says area resident, Rose Sexsmith.

She says the road is not safe for large gravel trucks.

"It's not safe. Right now you try to walk down there and even with cars they kind of scare you, but to have gravel trucks five days a week eight hours a day, it doesn't make sense."

Both the Regional District and City of Kelowna have come out against the location of the gravel pit, however, Peter Pazdernik who lives next to where the pit will be located, says the province has the final say and they have never denied an application.

Sexsmith says the opposition goes well beyond noise and the condition of the road.

"There are three wineries, there's parks down here and cyclists. It just doesn't make sense. What we're hoping is that it doesn't happen, whether it comes from him saying I won't develop it or the government saying you can't do it."

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