Support Cowichan Valley Mountain Bike Schools

Mountain Biking has become an extremely popular sport though 2020. As such the Kaspa Road Parking lot on Mount Tzouhalem, just like all other trail networks the world over, has become busy with traffic. This has caused a number of residents to complain about the safety of their street.

I fully support any move towards increasing the safety of local residents and visitors through traffic calming or street parking bylaws, however the municipality has currently placed a ban on mountain bike schools and clubs from operating in the Kaspa Road Parking lot on weekends.

I see this as discriminatory and an unnecessary move by the council that will only negatively impact the community and local mountain bike schools and groups.

Send a letter to North Cowichan Council

I have heard so much great feedback on how the schools have been such a benefit for they child, helping with their confidence and and health of their child. I feel it is important to express how much of a positive impact the mountain bike schools have on the local population and therefore wanted to make it easy for people to email the council so I created this tool below:

Please take a moment to read and edit the below letter to council (by clicking on the “READ OR EDIT THE PETITION” link in the yellow section below) and make your own adjustments to it before submitting it. Putting something in your own words would be best! We need all the support we can get to not only improve the safety of the local area in regards to traffic, but also to stop the discrimination against mountain bikers at this multi-use public location.

You can read the council agenda and complaint letters here.

If you do not want to use the tool below simply write a letter to council using their email: council@northcowichan.ca

Please send your concerns and supports in as soon as possible as they intend to hear this in February.

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Thank you.

Alan

Next Level Riding Ltd

Support our Cowichan Valley Mountain Bike Schools

Dear Mayor and Council

I am writing to show support for our local mountain bike schools and to encourage our council to support our mountain biking community.

In light of recent complaints from Kaspa Road residents in relation to traffic issues and parking, I am willing to support any traffic calming or parking restrictions on Kaspa Road that will improve safety in the area. However, I do not feel that the mountain bike schools in the area should be discriminated against by being told that they can not use the Kaspa Road parking lot. They provide an excellent service for locals and are ambassadors for the sport and should not be singled out as the cause of this increased traffic at this multi-use location.

Parking should be on a first come first served basis, which will obviously favour the locals, and no one group should be discriminated against.

I agree that we should, as a community, work to open up more sanctioned trail networks to relieve any burden on Mount Tzouhalem. Mountain Biking is here to stay and it is going to continue to grow as a sport and an industry. By restricting the ambassadors of the sport and those offering tuition and coaching;  the council is doing a disservice to the community of North Cowichan and it's positioning as a mountain bike destination.

Thank you for your time and consideration on this matter. I look forward to hearing how you will be supporting our local mountain bike schools that are working so hard to improve the lives of our children and mountain bike enthusiasts during these unprecedented and already restricted times.

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