When Sechelt council’s committee of the whole met on Nov. 2, 2016, the entire agenda was dedicated to three major projects offering independent and assisted living for seniors and long-term care in an area west of the downtown core, including the first iteration of Trellis’s Silverstone Care Centre.
As well as Trellis, the committee heard from the proponents for Wesbrooke by the Sea, a 124-unit mix of independent and supportive living, and Rockwood Ocean Stories, a 211-unit development with a similar focus.
Now, three years after that meeting, Trellis is poised to bring its project forward again after failed attempts to relocate to Gibsons and shíshálh Nation. Wesbrooke by the Sea has been abandoned. And Rockwood Ocean Stories also appears unlikely to go forward.
Representatives of Clayton Family Lands and their partner Wesbrooke, a Lower Mainland firm, confirmed in early 2018 that their application, which had passed third reading in 2017, had been withdrawn.
The Clayton companies decided to add the land to the single-family home neighbourhoods it had already planned for that area.
Rockwood Ocean Stories, a Spani Developments project, was given third reading at the same time as Wesbrooke, along with other projects that had been waiting on a detailed traffic impact study.
The district planning department’s latest development action chart, presented to the Advisory Planning Commission on Oct. 22, noted that planners sent Spani a letter in June “regarding lapse of the application after third reading” with an Aug. 2 deadline to respond.
The deadline passed with “no work plan received,” resulting in the file being ruled inactive and closed by the district.
