On June 22, the Sunshine Coast Regional District board ordered the closure of its Hopkins Landing wharf until required structural repairs to restore the site to a level considered safe for public use are completed. The board decision was done by endorsing recommendations from a June 15 committee meeting.
There was no separate introduction of the motion or debate on the matter at the board level. Following the endorsement, Area F director Kate-Louise Stamford made a brief statement to ensure members of the public in the meeting gallery were aware that the temporary closure had received approval.
The board also gave the go ahead to spend $520,000 on those basic safety repairs and up to $10,000 to fund efforts to put the closure in place. No timeframe for the commencement nor completion of the work was provided at the board or earlier committee meeting.
Since April, warning notices advising the wharf was to be used “at own risk” have been in place. Those were posted by SCRD staff after a consultant report on the wharf’s structural condition was received. That document advised that the amenity should be considered “structurally unreliable for public assembly” according to a staff report on the June 15 committee meeting agenda.
