Lame place to build a campground unless someone can’t farm and has cheep land.

Why all campgrounds in PG have to be out on the far edge of town set up as parking lots hidden in the bush with no redeeming qualities, is why PG has a bad reputation for RV tourist staying in the city.

I would like to see real campgrounds in the city and ones that give visitors a real view of what PG is all about. Its unreal that a city like PG does not have a single campground in the bowl area or along the rivers.

I have always figured prime land for a campground in PG is both at the Exhibition Grounds, as well as near Otway and Foothills. Both of those potential sites would be serviced by city sewer and city transit. The Exhibition Grounds was a successful campground in the past and would service all the sporting amenities in the area well. The Otway Foothills location would have excellent access to hiking trails and the river.

I would suggest if PG wants to have a world class campground that benefits the city tourism trade, then someone should go down to Elk Falls Provincial Park in Campbell River to see what a world class campground could be like in PG both in proximity to the city and access to nature.

250 consecutive nights? …. why limit it at all in that case?

World Class Campground …. in PG????

From the best campgrounds in Canada come these words:

Long Beach is the ultimate Pacific experience—22 kilometres of sand with a horizon that disappears into the ocean. Green Point marks the lone campground along its length.

The campsites here sit on a ledge above the beach, close enough to the ocean that the sound of surf lulls campers to sleep. A short path descends to the sand.

Most of the 113 sites are drive-in but there are 18 walk-in spots that are somewhat secluded.

It will be hard to beat that.

To me, a world class campground is a 3 to 4 star hotel room.

I was there this summer Gus. I agree that’s a world class location. Even right in Tafino they have private campsites on the beach that are amazing.

BC has many many world class locations, thats why we need to up our game if we want to be a part of that industry. Why does the city never benchmark those stats one wonders… lol.

I would suspect this RV park will mainly service construction workers. The reason these parks are built out of from town is the cheaper cost of land. The site servicing on the other hand is very expensive. ie. Water, sewer, hydro etc.

Some people would live there year round if you gave them a chance. That’s why the limit.

Drum role please……The City will turn it down because a camp ground is not part of the OCP!

Re: Long Beach, yes nice Place if you like the Rain, only once in the 70th we had no Rain!

Someone tried to build a campsite on the River within the City and finally gave up trying to work with City Hall. The reason the City planning department would not give approval was that the City wanted the land for parkland even though the person who was trying to build the campsite owned the land.

It would be nice if the city had a sanitation station for PG residents.. small places from Cache Creek to PG and out west have that convenience. In PG you have to pay for the same service or use a gas station out on the bypass. It used to have one but the city got rid of it;that would be a better idea than another campground out of the city limits.

Well said wood woman. For a city that’s trying to attract outside money, they take away the dumping station. How stupid is that.

done: “Well said wood woman. For a city that’s trying to attract outside money, they take away the dumping station. How stupid is that. “

If you’re talking about the Quinn St. transfer station, that location was hardly convenient for out of town travellers or anyone just passing through.

That being said, there are a few sani-dumps around but there is always room for a couple more.

Never mind a campground. Just eat here, get gas and then move on. As was and always will be.

Well there goes the neighbourhood. The owners next to the proposed sight are contaminating the natural waterway and nothing is being done.

It continually amazes me that the City can be so short sighted. This land is in the ALR for a reason. It has no City services and proposed access from what…a trailer court or through a neighbour hood that has no idea how they are going to be affected by a transient population.

Investors have been trying to sell it for years but with no access to HWY 16 it wasn’t selling.

@ 250 days maximum stay, I got to go with contractor! These campsites will overnight fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) resource extraction company workers.

Hmm… build more hotel rooms and campsites, that ought to meet all the temporary short term accommodation needs for what will be thousands of these fly-in-fly-out camp workers and contractors.

These workers won’t live here, they won’t be adding to our tax base, they won’t be building houses, they won’t be moving their families here, or enrolling their kids in our local schools, etc. Too bad :-(

“within the Agricultural Land Reserve and campground use has been previously approved by the Agricultural Land Commission.”

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previously approved in 2002…..thats a long time ago!

The opposition to this will come mostly from the other RV Park Operators, who don’t want the increased competition.