Coldstream's proposed bylaw covering the surface of Kalamalka Lake will float in limbo for another month after a public hearing Monday night. Mayor Jim Garlick says most of the people who attended felt it was a good idea, but they had specific concerns about the details. He tells KISS FM, council decided to rescind second reading to allow for more information and study. "We are sending it to committee to go over the details, the concerns the people brought forward. We'll go through and just make sure they're addressed, and then bring it back for public hearing at a later date, in September." The bylaw was designed to give the District control of houseboats and heavy machinery, like a pile driver, on the lake. There's currently no houseboats on the lake but a pile driver has moored itself at several locations in the past, and at one point, caused an emergency incident when it leaked fluids into the water. Among the concerns at the public hearing was placement of docks, their length, and where buoys are appropriate or allowed. Some lake shore residents also feel the bylaw could lead to people walking on the foreshore in their yards.Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Kal Lake Zoning Needs More Study
Coldstream's proposed bylaw covering the surface of Kalamalka Lake will float in limbo for another month after a public hearing Monday night. Mayor Jim Garlick says most of the people who attended felt it was a good idea, but they had specific concerns about the details. He tells KISS FM, council decided to rescind second reading to allow for more information and study. "We are sending it to committee to go over the details, the concerns the people brought forward. We'll go through and just make sure they're addressed, and then bring it back for public hearing at a later date, in September." The bylaw was designed to give the District control of houseboats and heavy machinery, like a pile driver, on the lake. There's currently no houseboats on the lake but a pile driver has moored itself at several locations in the past, and at one point, caused an emergency incident when it leaked fluids into the water. Among the concerns at the public hearing was placement of docks, their length, and where buoys are appropriate or allowed. Some lake shore residents also feel the bylaw could lead to people walking on the foreshore in their yards.
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wHAT A BUNCH OF SELFISH IDIOTS-CLAIMING THE RIGHTS TO LAND THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM-"COUNTRY LIVING AT ITS BEST-AND TO HELL WITH ANYONE ELSE"
I thought the foreshore was crown land already?
Riparian and foreshore rights exist in common law rather than as rights protected by statute, and may be explicitly limited by legislation. This is the case in BC, where the Province owns nearly all the freshwater and saltwater foreshore. Riparian and foreshore rights may be clear under common law, but are by no means clear in practice.
Perhaps Kal Lake property owners can follow the lead of "The Strand Resort" on Okanagan Lake, and erect fences across their beachfront and right into the water?
While the legislation is muddy in some respects, it is quite clear about construction below the high water mark. It is not allowed.
Unless of course the Crown, through ILMB has approved it. Even at that every approval for structures comes with the caveat that access on or through the foreshore by the public is not to be impeded as a result of the construction.
So you can't build it, without permission and even then you can't fence to block access.
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