Dispatches

By Right Sizing staff

Summerland Embraces its Environment

This South Okanagan community isn’t just building an ambitious solar-generation facility on its outskirts—it’s seeking to create an entire Eco-Village nearby, for like-minded residents to live lightly on the land. Just three kilometres from downtown, it hopes to build a community hub and 47-acre park plus homes, all with First Nations and Indigenous perspectives in mind. Active transportation, including biking and hiking paths, would connect the community. summerland.ca

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Farm-Fresh Homes in Tsawwassen

In the Tsawwassen/Boundary Bay area of Delta, Southlands is reinventing the agrarian, homestead lifestyle. On more than 530 acres, Southlands aims to be North America’s largest farm-rooted community, eventually featuring 950 homes, a Market District, biking/hiking paths and 100 acres of parkland. Grounding the whole community is the Southlands Grange Centre for Farming and Food, a sustainable-food hub hosting everything from cooking classes to farm tours, plus farmer training and farm-business incubators. discoversouthlands.ca

2023 BC Assessment value of a Summerland home: $790,000 (up 14% from 2022)

Third Wilden Living Lab Home Goes Live

Demonstrating that net-zero living is not only possible but beautiful, the Wilden Group has built the third home in its Living Lab series, in collaboration with UBC Okanagan, Okanagan College, AuthenTech Homes and FortisBC. The home complies with BC Energy Step Code’s highest standard, Step 5, to which all new buildings will have to conform by 2032. Learn about the home by dropping in to experience fun, interactive displays through May 18, every day except Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m., 215 Echo Ridge Drive, Kelowna. wilden.com

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2023 BC Assessment value of a Kelowna home: $988,000 (up 14% from 2022)