JANUARY 2019 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC


19 ‘Green rush’ overwhelms OK planning staff


Local governments waiting for the smoke to clear on cannabis


by JACKIE PEARASE LUMBY – Some local


governments in the Okanagan are facing a “green rush” as proposals blossom to meet the demand for recreational cannabis. Regional District of North


Okanagan (RDNO) planning and building general manager Rob Smailes said changes made to its zoning bylaw to address the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations in 2016 are now being adjusted to deal with the legalization of recreational cannabis this past October. “What we’ve said from our


perspective is growing cannabis is cannabis; whether it’s for medical or recreational purposes, it ought to be regulated,” Smailes says. RDNO’s zoning bylaw


allows for cannabis production facilities in industrial zones. Cannabis production is an acceptable use within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), though a new regulation introduced July 13 requires that all production systems now be soil-based.


RDNO is currently dealing with about six proposals for cannabis production facilities within the ALR. Two propose concrete foundations, contrary to the new


regulation, and RDNO has requested they submit an application for a non-farm use to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC). “There’s some frustration,


certainly, on some of these people’s behalf,” says Smailes. “A couple of them made it past the post; a couple of them didn’t. One’s trying to do something, trying to get [ALC] approval; the other’s trying to find a way around it by using a different type of building.” The proposal with a soil floor is basically using large steel screws to anchor the greenhouse frame to the ground, Smailes explains. One of the concrete-based


proposals is a 52,718-square- foot production facility and 10,000-square-foot processing facility Kosha Projects Inc. is proposing for Pleasant Valley Road in Spallumcheen. RDNO handles planning and building services for Spallumcheen, and decided to forward the plans to the ALC for consideration. RDNO’s regional


agricultural advisory committee (RAAC) recently considered the other proposal using concrete, from Green Amber (Canada) Corp., to create a facility of approximately 100,000 square feet on Shafer Road in Electoral Area D near Lumby,


CannGroup Development Corp’s cannabis facility between Grindrod and Salmon Arm is waiting for its licence before it starts production recreational and medical cannabis. MARLIN TOBIAS PHOTO


and recommended that it be forward to the ALC with a vote of six to five. Committee members


expressed a number of concerns about the proposal, including its overall benefit to agriculture, the size of the concrete footprint, and why the non-farm use covers the entire acreage rather than just the building footprint. The Electoral Area Advisory


Committee opted to defer consideration of the proposal on December 6 until there


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