Camille's Nightmare

To be blunt, Camille Marten's nightmare is the Regional District of North Okanagan.

A sentiment shared by many people over the years, I might add.

"The building was there when the business owner purchased it in 2009,

 and the RDNO was consulted as to its proposed use.

 It has passed all fire and health and safety inspections

 and has been cooperative with the RDNO

 throughout this exhausting two year process,

 and now, because of a minor technicality that can be fixed

 with the stroke of a pen, it faces closure."

Rolke, Morning Star                  

"Bin der, dun dat," I recall.

And RDNO/GVAC elected officials--goaded into adhering to the tomes of paperwork by bureaucrats--are mildly fussing that Camille's Rhythmic Gymnastics facility "may not be allowed to use a building on East Vernon Road because of zoning issues," as reported by the Morning Star in a couple of recent articles.

Or it should be stated to continue using it.

As Rolke reported:  "
"Although the business has worked diligently with the district and has met all health and safety conditions set out by the district, a new issue has arisen because the size of the building is slightly too large for its permitted use within the Agricultural Land Reserve," said Vernon councillor Scott Anderson.

"The building was there when the business owner purchased it in 2009, and the RDNO was consulted as to its proposed use. It has passed all fire and health and safety inspections and has been cooperative with the RDNO throughout this exhausting two year process, and now, because of a minor technicality that can be fixed with the stroke of a pen, it faces closure."

So the building is slightly too large?
Huh?
The Gymnastics club has used the building for years.
 
I'm thinking that some bored bureaucrat decided to whittle away an otherwise unproductive afternoon by reading the size rules for non-farm use of buildings on ALR land.

Hoping to score merit points with his superior, he had an "aha" moment and the bureaucrat felt it made sense to not allow Vernon's Olympic champion, Camille, to continue using it.

Canadian--as well as American--bureaucracy.

 Martens says "it's been a two-year nightmare."

She's wrong.
Dead wrong.
The nightmare never ends.

No matter that most of the area's elected officials appear to support Camille's facility.
And one or two of them are concerned "at how RDNO has been portrayed by the media and some residents," according to BX-Silver Star director Mike Macnabb.

Concerned how RDNO has been portrayed?
Jeez!
Who cares how RDNO has been portrayed!

Because it's the truth.

We are over-governed.
We are over-regulated.
Over-everything-ed, yup, that's the lot of residents in the North Okanagan.

Bureaucracy's foibles--and the elected officials who allow bureaucratic misfits to create such mayhem--are a lifelong nightmare.

"Camille may need a sleeping pill," Kia would've said, "to get through the rest of the process of 'legitimizing' the business she's been running for many years."

Yup.
Took me a few years to finally overcome/wake up from the Highlands Golf zoning nightmare too.

...and elected officials openly wonder why business avoids locating in the North Okanagan!
Duh!