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One of the groups suing the city of Penticton over the proposed waterslide development at Skaha Park has dropped its civil suit.
The suit filed by Save Skaha Park Society has been discontinued because their mandate has been met, according to society members.
"The new revised agreement that city council voted to accept Dec. 1 effectively ended the waterslide agreement against which SSPS had filed a lawsuit," said Lisa Martin with the group. "The society could have amended the lawsuit, but our mandate had always been to protect the green space in Skaha Park that we were losing to a concrete and plastic commercial water slide."
She added it has been a long 18 months of concern over the future of Skaha Park and they wish to acknowledge the tremendous support SSPS received from their members and from the community as a whole.
The society has no plans to disband and will meet to determine their path going forward.
The society was the first to file a civil suit regarding the Trio Marine Group water slide development at the park in September of 2015.
Penticton resident Nelson Meikle filed a second in July of this year.
At the Dec. 1 meeting Meikle said he won't be giving up on his legal fight.
In regards to the society suit, Mayor Andrew Jakubeit said ending the civil suit is one step closer to healing the rift in the community and being to able to celebrate or concentrate on other things that have been overshadowed by the Skaha Park controversy.
"The society was effective in their mandate to ensure no waterslide would be built and protecting green space. The new agreements with the city and Trio focus on the marina getting expanded and improved which most people recognized needed attention," he said. "We have been working with the society since late spring to achieve some resolution, recognizing that the society had many members and the issue was divisive in the community.
There still might be some animosity out there because it has been ongoing for a year-and-a-half, but I think the society ending their lawsuit helps us collectively to start moving forward."
