From the Tyee:
A Jumbo Summer Ahead? Opposition continues to dog the resort town with no residents, while the coming BC election raises stakes.
By Bill Metcalfe, 21 Mar 2013, TheTyee.ca
A provincially appointed mayor in a town with no residents, two court challenges, plans for glacier ski tours above Jumbo Valley this summer, and an upcoming provincial election that could change everything -- that's the reality for an East Kootenay real estate and ski resort development proposal as it enters its 23rd year of controversy.
In 2009 Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd. was expected to apply to the Regional District of East Kootenay, or RDEK, to rezone the Jumbo area for the development. That would have involved public hearings. (There has never been a public hearing of any kind in the 20-plus years of the Jumbo saga.)
In the meantime, a provincial election looms. MLA Macdonald says that in the event of an NDP win, the government would repeal the legislation that allowed the formation of the resort municipality.
But the new B.C. government would still be a party to the development agreement with Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd. Getting out of it could be complex and expensive.
"We'd get legal advice on that," says Macdonald. "Our goal would be to terminate the agreement in a way that is fair."
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