View it and weep — or rejoice, depending on how you see Ukee’s future unfolding. This is the development concept our council unanimously passed in October 2004. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then. Click to enlarge and:
- Check out that Wild Pacific Trail, extending along virtually the whole coast. (That’s been cut back a touch.)
- Look at that modest little golf course — possibly even, as the map says, single-family and multi-family housing (not).
- Count those four big waterfront “hotel resorts” (so community enhancing).
- Get lost in that giant “central park” (now mostly given over to golf course).
6 responses so far ↓
visitor // 2 July, 2007 at 6:50 am
Your blog writer seems completely ignorant. It is as if he/she thinks that Ucluelet has a lot of real options instead of tourism. The only reality in the absense of tourism would be continued decay, limited employment, increased welfare. And people would still come to buy your shitty houses! Get you head outta your posterior. Visitor.
resident // 21 July, 2007 at 8:23 pm
visitor sounds like he’s swollowed the bitter pill of MDP bullshit. Good luck visitor duking it out in the 12 feet of rain we get here per year. tourists LOVE rain eh!!!!!!! It seems every one who comes here has the original dream of buying one of their resort condos and then living their retirement off the revenue stream generated by the millions of people who come here a couple of months a year?! we’ll see
ukee refugee // 7 June, 2008 at 8:28 pm
With the rise of the Canadian dollar, the amount of ignorant American tourists has been decreasing. With the rise of fuel prices the amount of general tourism has been decreasing. Since I began slumming it in the Ukee tourist industry in early 2004, the season has only shortened, the crowd has only thinned, and the stress on the community that remains has only increased. I loved smirking at ruffled, drenched tourists as they interrogated me about “when the rain would end,” and I would reply smugly, “when you leave.”
I’m sick of people acting like the all holy Tourism god is nothing but a boon on the community, when in fact almost all it does is degrade the area and the community. It is not a sustainable source of income and for year-round individuals such as myself, it leaves us scrambling to hold it together for the rest of the wet, stormy, sanity-testing year. How many businesses did I see go under after only one winter in Ucluelet? A good deal more than I cared to.
There is no one solution to the economic problems on the peninsula, but relying on tourism is a recipe for disaster. Especially in the manner being executed so irresponsibly by MDP and their cronies.
ukeedukee // 19 June, 2008 at 11:48 am
Have you seen the Trail lately? Last time out I almost cried. Talk about a dream betrayed! Now the developers have moved it back from the water so far that it is running between two roads. All so the best view sites can be sold…. And of course, what was once a lovely walk is now only the armpit of Black Rock. How long before some tourism promoter gets sued for false advertising?
anon // 7 July, 2008 at 4:59 pm
…in response to all of these rather anti-golf-resort comments…why not take a minute and look at this situation as if the ‘glass’ were half full? The resource industry in BC is declining, and Ucluelet is by no means the only community turning to tourism to provide some sort of economic stability. If not this development, which there were plenty of opportunities to have a say, then what? Isn’t this about using the land in a way that the community can benefit from? Cash in the community coffers is only the beginning of the perks of this development. Is this a recipe for disaster – no – it is just change
Ucluelet business owner // 11 August, 2008 at 12:43 am
This message is to the ukee refugee. Why don’t you just leave town. Every time you are rude to a tourist you bring the town and certainly the business you are working for down. You sound like an idiot that would’t be happy if happy smacked you right in the face. This town does have alot to improve on and other than a few bad choices moving backwards, the town has moved forward towards sustainable tourism. Sorry dummy but Mac blo isn’t coming back to town(thankfully) You sound familiar, ya I think I fired your ass before. I hear Alberta’s looking for people like you, go get em tiger.