Bowser residents who are against the marine outfall option of the Bowser Sewer Project plan to show up in big numbers at the Regional District of Nanaimo board meeting on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to protest third reading of the rezoning of two properties located in Electoral Area H to permit a wastewater treatment plant to be developed in the area.
The Stop Bowser Ocean Sewage group is encouraging people who oppose the rezoning to attend the meeting to demonstrate their opposition and make it known to other directors prior to voting on the amendment bylaw. The properties to be rezoned are located on Pitt Road and Shaughnessy Drive.
The group’s campaign director Thomas Gates, in his mass email sent to residents and members, stated that they should fill the chamber rows from the front to the back with people carrying signs as they are no longer allowed to send further correspondence or appear as a delegation.
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The deadline to comment was at the public hearing that was held at the Lighthouse Community Centre on July 9, where more than 200 people attended with majority of the residents who attended speaking against the marine outfall and the proposed rezoning.
“It is ludicrous that after the July 9th Lighthouse Center hearing that the RDN staff say it is recommended that ‘Regional District of Nanaimo Land Use and Subdivision Amendment Bylaw No. 500.420, 2018’ be considered for third reading,” Gates said.
“This is a direct insult to 99 per cent of the 210 people who attended, 99 per cent of 159 people who provided written opposition statements, and 99 per cent of the over 100 people who spoke-out against this boondoggle at the hearing. Consultation has failed.”
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