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Clearing work on a piece of Tsawwassen farmland in order to build a greenhouse was stopped by the City of Delta last week due to a lack of permits. The property is currently listed for sale for $23.8 million and is being marketed as an investment opportunity.
Work quickly shut down City puts a stop to clearing of contentious piece of Tsawwassen farmland
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The fate of a piece of agricultural land in Tsawwassen has been uncertain for years, but now things appear to be coming to a head and residents are sounding the alarm. Site clearing work began last week on the 18-hectare (45-acre) parcel in the 5700-block of 6th Avenue, but a stop work order
was soon imposed by Delta after residents complained to city hall. Now owned by a numbered company, the land, which had formerly been referred to as the Guichon property and the subject of a rezoning proposal decades ago, is immediately east of the Forest by the Bay subdivision adjacent to the Southlands and Beach Grove Golf Club. Bylaw manager Hugh Davies
confirmed there hadn’t been any development or soil deposit applications submitted to city hall, but the owner had begun site preparation work, confirming to a bylaw officer that the plan was to construct a greenhouse. “They were depositing soil there, gravel material on site. There was no soil deposit permit or development permit for the material that was being put on
there,” Davies told the Optimist. “It’s zoned A1 agricultural, so you can’t bring material on site like that without a soil deposit, or at least a development permit. “The owners have been advised what they need to do and the stop work order is in place. No further trucks are to go on there or any work on that property until that’s been resolved,” Davies said. AGRICULTURAL: see Page 3
Optimist readers have chosen their favourites! It’s time to reveal the winners of our 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers voted for their favourite South Delta shops and services in over 80 categories, everything from accounting services to sushi restaurant, 2018 and those winners are Awards included in a special section inside today’s edition. The winners were formally presented with their awards at a banquet the Optimist hosted earlier this month at the Beach Grove Golf Club. This year we also asked readers what keeps them coming back to a business, and in the section we share many of their responses.
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