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About 13,000 Kelowna signatures opposed to the McCurdy Road supportive housing project are on their way to city hall.
The petition is the result of two weeks of work by volunteers and residents of Rutland who believe the neighbourhood has already done its share in housing the hard to house.
The final petition count saw about 14,000 signatures in total, with just under 13,000 of them coming from Kelowna. The task of getting that many pens to paper in such a short time frame was a massive undertaking.
“So many volunteers came out of the woodwork to make it happen,” said organizer Audra Boudreau.
While the petition isn’t on Monday’s council agenda, Boudreau says they are showing up with the expectation that their voices will be heard.
“I’ve heard from one councillor who has suggested that if Mayor Basran is not willing to give me permission to present it to council, they would make a motion to do that,” Boudreau said. “Because they want the petition to be heard, if 14,000 of your voters speak, they should be heard.”
She says if the city “powers ahead” with the planned project, they will be presenting the petition to the B.C. Legislature once it resumes sitting in the fall.
Boudreau says they would welcome a different type of BC Housing project on the corner, be it for families or seniors, but the red line is any facility that permits drug and alcohol use.
“There are very viable alternative options for this site,” she said, maintaining its not too late for the city and BC Housing to change course and construct a project that doesn’t permit drug and alcohol use.
“There is a perfect opportunity for a win-win for the city, for BC Housing and for the community.”
Kelowna city council has already granted the project final approval, meaning the only way changes will be made to the project would be for the mayor to bring the item back for reconsideration under a rarely-used section of the Community Charter.
Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick has already asked the province to hit pause on the project.
