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The B.C. Agricultural Land Commission has denied an application for a boutique hotel at the base of Munson Mountain, forcing revisions to the proposal put forward by the owners of Poplar Grove Winery.
About one third of the lot at 468 Lower Bench Road — the site of the proposed 20-room “Poplar Grove Inn” — is situated in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
The ALC panel unanimously ruled in February the construction of the hotel “would be inconsistent with the preservation of agricultural land.”
As a result, city council will get a look Tuesday at a revised version of the proposal, which seeks to build a smaller version of the luxury hotel on the part of the property outside the ALR.
The revised proposal remains at 20, albeit smaller, rooms. The hotel lobby will also be reduced in size and will not include a restaurant or lounge. A vineyard will be planted on the ALR portion of the site.
“The proposed inn remains very similar, although smaller than originally proposed, and has the same limited traffic impacts, no impact views from Munson Mountain, same neighbourhood and agricultural context and same economic benefits to agriculture,” Barb Holler, Poplar Grove owner, wrote to council
City staff will present council will a few options Tuesday, including pushing forward with approval of the revised project, call another public hearing, consult the ALC further, hold further public consultations or kill the project.
"The lack of high-end hotel accommodation in the city, and particularly aligned with the wine industry, is a void that the proposal would seek to fill," senior planner Audrey Tanguay says in her report to council.
