The 108 Greenbelt Commission will be holding a public meeting this evening at the 108 Community Hall.
Cariboo Regional District Director for Area G Al Richmond said the 108 ATV Club requested an opportunity to present a proposal to the Commission tonight at seven.
On their Facebook the club posted that their request is to provide two corridors across 108 Greenbelt lands for licensed and insured ATV’s in order to gain access to the Gold Rush Snowmobile Trail.
They added these corridors will be well marked and signs installed requiring all to stay on the access corridors.
“The current bylaw doesn’t permit the utilization of any motorized vehicles on the Greenbelt,” Richmond said, “unless their service vehicles or owned by, for example, Enbridge Pipelines that has infrastructure they have to maintain on there, or Regional District vehicles, or Ducks Unlimited who have infrastructure in there. Right now the only motorized vehicle allowed for use by the general public would be a snowmobile but we don’t allow ATV’s or dirt bikes on the green space and they would like that changed.”
Richmond noted that Bylaw Enforcement spends some time chasing down vehicles that are running up and down on the Greenbelt and destroying the Grasslands.
“So this group feels they tend to have a solution to that so the Commission has agreed to formally receive their proposal and to take public input and that’s what we intend to do this evening. The Commission as with the Regional District, any delegation will receive a delegation and others comments. We have a number of other people that have expressed an interest to come to the meeting to hear what’s said and be able to ask questions of the delegation being the 108 ATV Club. The Commission will hear those questions, the responses, and take that under consideration when it considers the request.”
The Greenbelt Commission is made up of four representatives recommended for appointment by the 108 Ranch Community Association, five members at large from the general public and a member from the 108 Resort.
Richmond says the Greenbelt is about 1500 hectares with the largest portion in the Walker Valley area that runs from Tatton Road right through to just a little bit North of the 108.
“The other pieces are smaller ones that are intertwined throughout the community. Some could be 10, 12, 15 acres in size, some a little larger that provide green space throughout the community and then of course the trails around the lake are all on green space,” Richmond added.