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They came by the busload -- three or four busloads in fact.
They were more than 200 strong, well organized and wearing t-shirts stating, 'Create 2,800 Jobs' and 'Stop The OCP,' all in support of Mark Consiglio's Kelowna Mountain project.
Supporters of the 680 acre development packed Kelowna City Council Chambers and spilled out into the hallway.
The occasion was a Regional District of Central Okanagan public hearing for the South Slopes OCP (Official Community Plan) hearing that technically, didn't involve them.
"I'm just a little bit confused because the questions are around approving a development of Kelowna Mountain and this public hearing has nothing to do with the development of Kelowna Mountain," stated director, Gail Given.
"This isn't a public hearing for Kelowna Mountain, this is a public hearing for an Official Community Plan. Kelowna Mountain doesn't have a development before us right now that I'm aware of. If all of the comments are around the Kelowna Mountain development, I see this is going to be a very long public hearing that's about the wrong process."
The hearing lasted a little more than four hours and attracted several dozen speakers, most asking that the OCP process be halted and the Kelowna Mountain project be allowed to go ahead.
Speakers included workers at the development who were being laid off along with investors from as far away as the Lower Mainland and New York.
Several other speakers who lived in the June Springs and Chute Lake road areas also spoke against the OCP as it pertained to their particular properties.
In fact, only one person, a resident at the end of Lakeshore Road, spoke favourably of the document.
Residents were most upset about the perceived lack of growth described within the OCP and, in the case of residents in the June Springs area, the inability to subdivide large parcels of property.
Some went so far as to called the document 'flawed.'
"We heard from a whole lot of residents who were not very happy with what went on here. I don't want to just say we're going to look at Kelowna Mountain and the rest of the people don't count," says Director, Andre Blanleil.
"There is a flaw in this document in a large way when you hear from the public."
At the end of the day the Regional District voted unanimously to close the public hearing meaning directors cannot knowingly accept new information from outside sources.
Staff will now prepare a report and make changes based on the feedback from Monday's public hearing and present it to the board later this month.
In an effort to try and move the Kelowna Mountain project along, the board also decided to try and find a way to do both a neighbourhood plan and look at a rezoning application which developers dropped off at the RDCO office late Monday afternoon.
"The applicant wants to move, yet typically, we do the neighbourhood plans first before we consider rezoning applications," says board chair, Robert Hobson.
"Neighbourhood plans are not a small thing. It took a number of years to do the Southwest Mission sector plan and that involved four neighbourhoods and 12,000 units. That clearly laid out who was going to pay for what in terms of services."