Regional District of East Kootenay Resolution on the Governance of Jumbo
Glacier Resort
July 28, 2009
Glacier Resorts Ltd. Supports the resolution before the RDEK
INVERMERE, BC -- Glacier Resorts Ltd. fully supports the resolution before
the Regional District of East Kootenay in recommending to the Province that
a Mountain Resort Municipality, which ensures local governance and representation,
should be created for the resort.
The Jumbo Glacier Resort project has been reviewed by a series of local and
Provincial processes since the early 90’s resulting in three major land
use decisions, all approving the project: the East Kootenay Commission on
Resources and the Environment (CORE) in 1994, The Environmental
Certificate in 2004, and the Jumbo Glacier Resort Master Plan approval in
2007. Each of these processes involved significant public and local
government input.
The next step is the signing of a Master Development Agreement,
which is the operating agreement for the Resort and normally follows automatically after the major land use decisions. In this case, that process has been delayed pending the results of the respectful consultation process between the
Province and First Nations.
The creation of a Mountain Resort Municipality will
result in a practicablelocal governance structure for the resort.
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