Last Monday night council gave first reading to a bylaw that would see Cape Roger Curtis developed to the point that it would house almost one half as many people as the current population of Bowen Island. When I asked one councillor if this was some kind of clever trick to humble the would-be developer, [...]
Also tagged“Cates Hill, I’d like to introduce you to the west side of Bowen Island. West Side, I’d like to introduce Cates Hill.” During the recent road repairs these two groups got more of each other than they bargained for. The residents of Cates Hill got an inkling of what it’s like to live on Adams [...]
Also tagged Abbeyfield, Housing, Municipal PoliticsI leave you people alone for a couple of months and you make me want to rip my hair out. That’s not really true but things certainly have heated up since my last column. The Cape Roger Curtis people have re-presented their old development scheme and are still acting like we just don’t understand how [...]
Also tagged Community Centre, Municipal PoliticsIn the world of municipal politics we are now entering the Silly Season. It is only a few months before the next municipal elections. This is the time when our local councillors look back over the last two and a half years and ahead to the next election in November. They think back to the commitments [...]
Also tagged Municipal Politics, OCP, Surplus LandsThe more things change, the more they stay the same. I remember telling an old-timer 25 years ago that Bowen was about to explode. We had been discovered and, no matter how much effort went into slowing down progress a major population boom was just around the corner. He told me people had been telling [...]
Also tagged Housing, Municipal Politics, OCP, Snug CoveThe Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) development proposal is becoming worrisome. Their 1000 unit proposal was a non starter. But, instead of listening to criticism and reworking their plan they just cut the number of proposed units by 50%. When that didn’t fly they proposed phasing the project so that the initial work was 50% less [...]
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The Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) development people have unveiled their much anticipated proposal for how many houses they would like to build on their 630 acre parcel on the south-west corner of Bowen Island. In round figures they think that about 1,000 would work well. Considering their current zoning allows for no more than [...]
It’s time once again to drop in on the ongoing saga of the Cape Roger Curtis development process. The Cape is a 640 acre parcel of land that forms the south-western tip of Bowen Island. For the last three years, the developers who recently purchased it have been educating the humble folk of Bowen Island [...]
It looks like we’re about to have a very serious debate.
The latest Bowenian warns of the “new urbanism’ destroying Bowen’s rural character. Meanwhile the Undercurrent is reporting on the Cape Roger Curtis owners proposal to dedicate large tracts of the property for parkland and develop 240 to 250 homes on the balance. The Mayor pointed [...]
Probably the most beautiful and loved piece of property on Bowen is Cape Roger Curtis. But the developers have gotten their hands on it and it is in play.
The way that these things normally work is that the developer wants to get the highest density possible because normally that would generate the most profit. The [...]