– Town applies to exclude land from Agricultural Land Reserve –

(OSOYOOS TIMES — July 12, 2006)
The Town of Osoyoos wants to add airport facilities and new industries to the strip of land between Highway 3 and the airport runway.
Mayor John Slater says the Town has applied to have the land taken out of B.C.'s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). Osoyoos wants to sell part of the land for industrial use, and keep the rest for airport facilities like airplane hangars, a terminal building, a fuelling station, and possibly even an aircraft repair shop.
Slater says the Crown gave the land parcel to the Town in the late-1980s for airport ancillary use.
But the mayor says Osoyoos needs more light industrial land, and that location is a good one.
He says the ALR exclusion should happen quickly, and the Town then plans to extend water, sewer, power and communications services to the land.
It would then be in a position to put about seven acres of the land up for sale, for industrial use, Slater says.
We think that's a lot more beneficial to the town than just using it all for airport ancillary.rnThe mayor says the next step for the remainder of the land will be for the Town to develop an airport plan. It could consider such things as lengthening the runway and adding lights, he notes.