A local Oliver business will receive a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) to go ahead with a personal service hair salon, despite concerning actions such as building the business in a restricted zone and developing the space without a permit.
Taking away people’s rights, over-regulated, and over-complicated were just some of the words being thrown around when the Regional District of the Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) discussed yet again new laws around Short-Term Rentals (STR).
Questions of procedure and precedent dominated the conversation among RDOS directors at their October 6 meeting when Grant Temple finally received his hard-fought approval for a temporary use permit (for a vacation rental) on Vaseux Lake.