Carrying colourful signs decrying impediments constructed on the foreshore, a group of Kelowna residents walked from City Park to Rotary Beach to raise awareness and create change.

91裸聊视频淔or many years people have been trying to block access to the foreshore, and people began thinking you couldn91裸聊视频檛 walk the beach (where there are docks),91裸聊视频� Brenda Bachmann, a member of PLANKelowna, said. 91裸聊视频淪o we are bringing awareness to people that you can walk the beach,91裸聊视频�

Bachmann told the crowd that as long as they have one foot in the water it91裸聊视频檚 a public space. Waterfront property extends from the normal high water mark to the lake, and all the space in between is for the province and the public.

Long term residents Dave Harris and Deb Matheson joined dozens of residents as they marched down the foreshore.

91裸聊视频淭his is public property and there shouldn91裸聊视频檛 be obstructions,91裸聊视频滺arris said. 91裸聊视频淭he shoreline is public property and they are blocking it91裸聊视频� either they (the home owners) have too much money or they don91裸聊视频檛 care.91裸聊视频�

The group had to leave the beach side to walk on the street three times to finish their walk due to total obstructions of the foreshore.

91裸聊视频淲e are really disappointed in what91裸聊视频檚 happened. By the time our grandkids grow up91裸聊视频� it91裸聊视频檚 become a rich man91裸聊视频檚 paradise,91裸聊视频� Matheson said. 91裸聊视频淵ou can91裸聊视频檛 walk more than a few properties because of the docks and rocks people have put out into the property.91裸聊视频�

Related: Walk to press for public access to Kelowna91裸聊视频檚 foreshore back for second year

PLANKelowna says its priorities are:

91裸聊视频� Construction of a planned small public park linking Strathcona Beach Park and Royal Avenue Beach Access.

91裸聊视频� Repair and improvement of the existing public walkway along the lakeshore north of Maude Roxby Wetland.

91裸聊视频� Construction, in a basic form, of the long-awaited lakeshore park near Cedar Avenue, with features added at later dates as budgets allow. The city has owned a row of 12 waterfront properties on the site of the future park for more than 20 years.

91裸聊视频� Having the City of Kelowna resume buying properties that are adjacent to existing lakefront parks when they become available. It says costs could be reduced by selling the road-side part of these properties and adding just the lakefront portion of the property to parks.

91裸聊视频� Having the city provide, and permanently install, small signs at the high water mark of waterfront properties so beach walkers don91裸聊视频檛 inadvertently trespass onto private property.

91裸聊视频� Completion of the missing sections of the Abbott Street recreation corridor multi-use path, south of the Kelowna General Hospital.

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