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Evicted Langford mobile home seniors awarded $28K from forgotten city fund

For Coun. Keith Yacucha, the $28,000 grant represents an opportunity for the city to “make things right.” “This is a clear case of where the city had in the past been failing to follow through on their promises,” he said about the lack of a reserve fund.

A sense of closure for displaced tenants of a Langford seniors mobile home park has come from a ‘forgotten’ source.

Members of the Tri-Way Park Residents Association have been awarded a $28,000 grant by the city to cover legal costs incurred during a long-running dispute with Starlight Investments, which purchased the park for redevelopment.

The grant has been made possible by the city’s manufactured home park redevelopment policy, which was amended in 2007 to include a reserve fund for purposes such as this.

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