Written and verbal assurances given to residents of TriWay Manufactured Home Park regarding rezoning and redevelopment by Langford Mayor Stu Young, Langford council, the city and developer, evaporated during the now completed rezoning process. ResidentsB次元官网网址� representations were ignored, leaving no choice but to pen this open letter to Mayor Young.
We feel betrayed.
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Residents are told, B次元官网网址淏ut you are protected by (what the developer refers to as) a protective covenant.B次元官网网址� Untrue. B次元官网网址淩esidentB次元官网网址� appears nowhere in the covenant which seems to protect all except residents. The developer is now free to acquire rezoned land without the obligation to submit a comprehensive plan for approval by residents and council.
Bylaw 1885 and Covenant actually permit immediate closure of half the park without providing longevity for the remainder.
The B次元官网网址渃omprehensive planB次元官网网址� residents expected is simply a plan that comprehensively takes every residentB次元官网网址檚 circumstances into account B次元官网网址� not a grab for unreasonable financial compensation.
In January 2020, the developer presented residents with the basis of a fair and acceptable plan but has withdrawn critical elements including his commitment to buy out any resident wishing to leave the park, and for the remaining downsized park to exist in perpetuity. Without guaranteed longevity it is impossible for residents to realize their home equity in the open market.
All the assurances somehow became totally empty and rezoning was granted anyway.
Ironically, Your Worship closes by praising the importance of manufactured home parks in the community as affordable housing. Why then dismantle TriWay?
You close by offering to continue serving us. Please do so. To begin with, please honour your councilB次元官网网址檚 and city assurances of a comprehensive plan for compensation prior to the seemingly inevitable downsizing of the park by requiring council to set conditions on redevelopment that bind the developer to his Jan. 16, 2020 assurances to residents.
Conditions must include: a buyout for any homeowner wishing to leave; a timeline for longevity of the downsized park; and meeting with TriWay residents urgently to remedy the flawed rezoning process that cut us out.
Peter Kedge
On behalf of TriWay Park Residents Association
