Stories from Tri-City News headlines of decades past is a recurring feature as the publication marks its 40th anniversary in 2024.
Anmore council is currently entertaining a development proposal that could triple the village’s population.
Thirty years ago, however, residents of a mobile home park at the end of East Road were wondering if they’d still have a home as the property’s owner planned to convert the site from rental to strata-title.
The change, and corresponding guidelines for how the mobile homes must look, meant 20 of them could be eliminated.
For residents who’d lived in the park for years, the prospect of its reconfiguration was fraught with uncertainty over the value of their homes.
One said her mobile home that she’d bought in 1992 would fetch only half its original cost just a year later.
“We can’t sell it now,” said Alana Moskovitch, adding even with provincial legislation allowing for a six-month eviction notice as well as compensation for up to six months of pad rental at another location, “there is no place to go.”
Moskovitch also said preliminary meetings to establish a new mobile home park in a patch of forest near Buntzen Lake didn’t pan out because of resistance from established homeowners nearby.
“They feel we’re lower class,” she said.
The Tri-City News has covered civic affairs, local crime, festivals, events, personalities, sports and arts in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody since 1983. Bound back issues of the paper are available at the Coquitlam Archives, while digital versions of several past years can be found at issuu.com.
