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Great day for a picnic!
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GREG FEE
Mayor Lois Jackson was the special guest at the Delta Community Living Society family picnic at Kirkland House in Ladner last Friday. The event had music, face painting, a barbecue and more for adults with developmental disabilities, their families, friends and caregivers.
Even bigger plans for reserve Colliers says 1,100-home project is only a portion of the almost 5,000 homes possible in enterprise zone SANDOR GYARMATI
A major housing proposal by the Tsawwassen First Nation could be just the tip of the iceberg in a huge residential transformation of the reserve. The TFN has been focusing on growing its industrial base since signing a treaty, but housing is another significant component looming on the horizon that could radically change the face of South Delta. The first move in that regard surfaced this month when a pair of band families began advertising
123 continuous acres that are said within the TFN’s enterprise zone Shores, Stahaken and on lots to have the development potential is a whopping 4,844 single-famalong Tsawwassen Beach. of upwards of 1,100 single-family ily homes, 9,688 townhouses or The TFN land use plan states lots. Colliers International recent11,840 condos. the housing development takly issued a request for proposals In addition, even more homes ing place at the neighbouring from interested developers to buy could become a reality in several Tsawwassen Golf and Country the land, designated Club “provides and as an enterprise zone excellent opporEnough growth without Southlands within the TFN’s Page 4 tunity for TFN to land use plan, on a develop a market areas designated within the TFN’s housing subdivision consisting 99-year pre-paid lease. In an interview last week, Chief land use plan as future multi-fam- of multi-family housing adjacent ily and single family development. to the golf course.” The plan also Kim Baird said the project is not Much of that land is controlled by notes there are opportunities to an initiative of the band’s council, the band. but the individual members who develop additional multi-family Currently, there are approxiown the land. units adjacent to Tsatsu Shores mately 500 non-native residents According to Colliers and along the base of the bluff as living on the reserve at Tsatsu International, potential housing well as south of Highway 17.
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The TFN says its land use plan supports the development of “a complete community” by creating diverse neighbourhoods with a range of housing types. As far as the housing development that’s now planned within the enterprise zone, Howie Charter, managing director of Colliers International, told the Optimist the long-term lease provides a sense of certainty. “We’re planning on using the very same contractual models that are being used at Simon Fraser and at UBC, because there’s a very high degree of market acceptance for those models,” he said.