I wasn't sure where to post this, but inquiring minds want to know... Someone I know mentioned that some the the Alice Lake zone in Squamish is slated for residential development that'll impact trails. Any truth to this or are they referring to a different zone? The good trails are on some pretty special terrain, so I'd be surprised if they'd be developed, though stranger things have happened.
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I haven't read any of it, but there's a Reddit thread from a year ago, perhaps some insight there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Squamish/comments/t7ogp5/development_adjacent_to_alice_lake_park/
Edit: Sounds like lots of slab trails will be getting developed.
Yes, a lot of the trails in the area north of Perth Drive are actually on private land. The developer is aware of the importance of trails and, I believe, SORCA are in communication with them
Cool, thanks for that. A very quick skim brought me to this SORCA link: https://sorca.ca/2019/update-on-the-district-lots-509-and-510-cheema-lands
Quick take: SORCA is on it, and sounds like they would need a rezone which they haven't been able to get, and if something did go through the landowner is having reasonable conversations with SORCA.
Reason #24,694 to support SORCA (and all our local advocacy groups).
a LOT of trails in Squamish are on private land, whether people realize it or not. Due north of the Cheema parcel between it and Alice Lake Park is another parcel of private land the Squamish Nation owns, in addition to owning a few parcels on Diamond Head and in some in Valleycliffe/Crumpit that also have many many trails on them.
In terms of Cheema property, many of the slab trails actually are on land that will likely be too steep to develop and as such will mostly be defacto 'protected'. But, this parcel is also outside the current Squamish growth management boundary and the District has said no to start the planning process to develop this lot for decades, and seems they continue to have no appetite to go there for the foreseeable future. Whether or not Cheema decides to action their quarrying permit is a whole different question.
Posted by: FlipFantasia
a LOT of trails in Squamish are on private land, whether people realize it or not. Due north of the Cheema parcel between it and Alice Lake Park is another parcel of private land the Squamish Nation owns, in addition to owning a few parcels on Diamond Head and in some in Valleycliffe/Crumpit that also have many many trails on them.
In terms of Cheema property, many of the slab trails actually are on land that will likely be too steep to develop and as such will mostly be defacto 'protected'. But, this parcel is also outside the current Squamish growth management boundary and the District has said no to start the planning process to develop this lot for decades, and seems they continue to have no appetite to go there for the foreseeable future. Whether or not Cheema decides to action their quarrying permit is a whole different question.
Quarrying would be the ultimate F-U to Squamish council by Cheema. After years of asking for changes to the growth plan and being turned down they say F-It let's quarry all that rock. What stands in the way of them just actioning the quarry permit?
amount is limited to 2000 tonnes per year, guess at this point it's just wherewithal and maybe posturing...the District is trying to have it a number of ways here too, for decades they've shifted the goal posts on bringing the lots into the growth boundary, bumping up the population threshold another 12,000 people in the last OCP update, conveniently before the census showed us at that previous threshold. So the lot is outside of the GMB, zoned Resource by the District, yet they're upset the province has granted a quarrying permit. Looks like it expires in 2 years, will be interesting to see if anything happens. https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-developer-receives-quarry-permit-3351269
Just... to set the scale, though. 2000 tons of rock is.... a cube about 9m on each side.
Posted by: cooperquinn
Just... to set the scale, though. 2000 tons of rock is.... a cube about 9m on each side.
yup, not a lot, but enough to make people bristle
Posted by: FlipFantasia
In terms of Cheema property, many of the slab trails actually are on land that will likely be too steep to develop and as such will mostly be defacto 'protected'.
Keep dreaming, or come take a look at Cypress.
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