To say a sewage-treatment plant at Clover Point is facing an uphill battle is an understatement. Unlike Esquimalt, this is a waterfront park that, curiously, is zoned residential.
The Clover Point land is owned by the city, but until 1988 much of it was owned by Department of National Defence and leased to the city with the expectation it would be used as a park. That might require an amendment to the Crown land grant.
But Clover Point is already home to a CRD outfall and screening plant, and some city councillors, such as Ben Isitt, note that locating a major treatment plant there is not an entirely new use but an expansion of existing facilities.
Still, the entire site would have to be rezoned to allow a treatment plant and that could get ugly, especially as the proposed plant would be literally across the street from a high-priced area of Fairfield.
