Local government has paved the way for a family-run company to rebuild the Boston Flats trailer park, just south of Cache Creek.

The park was destroyed in July of 2017 by the notorious Elephant Hill wildfire.

Lisa Buchanan with Cole Developments, based in Surrey, says the new park will be in a new spot, moving from Lot D to Lot A.

“It was very pretty. You went down a hill and it just sat on the bottom, close to the Bonaparte River. Where Lot A is higher, so you don’t have to go down into the park. There’s a frontage road off the highway. And it will be 60 pads, as opposed to the 51 that were down there,” Buchanan says.

“We shouldn’t have to worry about flooding, hopefully not fire. We will do everything we can to make sure it’s a fireproof park to the best of our ability. It will be higher and closer to the highway, which I think a lot of our past residents enjoyed kind of being off the highway. But for safety and for cost-effectiveness, Lot A looks like it will be a great spot.”

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has approved re-zoning for the new park.

Buchanan says the goal is to have it built within two years. She says her family company will now be doing detailed planning.

“Going to each government after that and see what they allow us to do. Sometimes dealing with the different ministries it might take a couple years. But I think the projection is, in the next two years, to try to have a developed park up there.”