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THE TRAILS
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No new greens for Ponderosa, but green in Peachland’s coffers
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By Jeff McDonald
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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t’s not what Peachland residents who bought property in The Trails development had in mind. They thought they’d be walking a few steps to the newly developed golf course to play a round. But Romspen, the Toronto-based real estate investment group that owns the property, has long been promising to develop the golf course with a residential community around it, without moving forward with any aspect of the project. The November 2025 requirement that the golf course be completed has passed. The Peachland Post tried to get insight into why they haven’t started it, or when they might, but Romspen isn’t saying. Repeated requests for interviews with company representatives last week were ignored. Now the delay is hitting Romspen where it hurts. The District of Peachland has been
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No sign of progress on the long-awaited golf course.
billing the company an agreed-upon $100,000 every month since late last year, said the district’s Director of Planning Darin Schaal. “The district is simply enforcing the terms of an agreement that stipulates a penalty of $100,000 for each 30-day period that the golf course construction is incomplete beyond the November 1, 2025 deadline,” said Schaal, noting that the agreement stipulates an “upset limit” of one million dollars. A stalled project, angry residents, and a developer gone publicly silent but paying up to a million dollars in penalties.
How did Peachland get here? The original proposal was an 18-hole golf course, hotel, vineyards and homes for 4,100 residents. Construction began in 2012, but other than 69 homes in the project known as The Trails, nothing else happened. Romspen took over a portion of the land and negotiated a new development agreement covenant with the district. They requested permission to build 445 homes; the District of Peachland required that Romspen build a nine-hole golf course and a road between Somerset and Ponderosa.
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Nothing since then, according to Geoff Trafford, who lives in The Trails development. “There was some cleanup work and a temporary roadway graded at the south end of the property towards Somerset, but it’s really just preliminary work that was done there. They cleaned up some of the garbage that was on the golf course on the south side of Ponderosa. They didn’t clean up anything on the north side of Ponderosa. Nothing further has been done as far as I know,” said Trafford. SEE TRAILS PAGE 7
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