Blackmun Bay, no way!

The developers of the proposed Blackmun Bay project have stated that their build-out will take approximately seven years. This is comparable to a life sentence with parole for the 700 residents of Casa Loma!

This project will totally engulf the single-lane access into our community and create unbelievable and unacceptable congestion. 

This project, if approved will be destroy our quality of life. For some of us, the last years of our lives will be fraught with anxiety and internment in our own semi-rural community.

There are a thousand trips daily in and out of Casa Loma, which take several minutes. I cannot hazzard to guess how long it will take to negotiate this potential minefield once construction starts. How will emergency services be able to respond if there is 150 cubic metres of rock on Campbell Road?

Campbell Road cannot accommodate street-side parking, let alone a staging area to perform open pit mining on the Casa Loma escarpment. The only flat three to four acres for a staging site for this project is on Jim Blackmun's ALR land.

I also have a concern about the thousands of trucks, trailers and construction equipment that will not be able to turn around at the site. Will they will be forced to travel all the way into our residential community to turn around?

Congestion at the Campbell Road/Highway 97 traffic circle is a major concern for most residents. The chaos at the Highway 97 traffic circle will be nothing compared to the inconvenience of navigating this open pit construction site for seven years.

Many residents feel the Blackmun Bay project is an embarassment to the City of West Kelowna. If approved, it will be a black eye for the entire region and particularly for those on council who have no vision of the future.

The developers will take their profits and move on to greener pastures. We will all be left with the remnants of what could have been a paradise.

Scott Rowland, West Kelowna