North Pender LTC Special Meeting Agenda Addendum

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North Pender Island Local Trust Committee
 
Special Meeting Addendum
 

Date:May 5, 2025
Time:2:00 pm
Location:Electronic Meeting
Pages
7.APPLICATIONS AND REFERRALS
7.3PL-DVP-2024-0350 (Smith) - Updated Staff Report (attached)
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  STAFF REPORT 
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Islands Trust Staff Report 1 
File No.: PL-DVP-2024-0350 
DATE OF MEETING: May 5, 2025 
TO: North Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
FROM: Bruce Belcher, Planner 2 
Southern Team 
COPY: Robert Kojima, Regional Planning Manager 
SUBJECT: PL-DVP-2024-0350  
 Applicant: Doug Smith 
 Location: 5410 Hooson Road, North Pender Island 
RECOMMENDATION 
1. That the North Pender Island Local Trust Committee approve issuance of PL-DVP-2025-0350. 
REPORT SUMMARY 
The purpose of this report is to consider a Development Variance Permit (DVP) to vary the maximum height and 
number of storeys for an accessory building from 4.6 metres and one storey, to 8.61 metres and two storeys for 
an existing agricultural building to be converted to an accessory building. 
RATIONALE FOR VARIANCE 
The applicant’s rationale for the variance is to save and repurpose the existing barn and use the building as a 
shop, office, and storage space. The barn is a long-standing structure with no additions proposed that would 
create any new impacts on neighbours, and predates the current owners purchase of the property. 
BACKGROUND 
The variance application is following an Islands Trust Preliminary Plan Review for proposed alterations and a 
change of use for the existing barn on the property. Staff identified that since the building was changing its use 
from an agriculture building to an accessory building its current height and storeys would be non-conforming 
with the North Pender Land Use Bylaw No. 224, 2022 (LUB). 
The specific variance to the LUB is as follows: 
a) Subsection 3.4 (3) which states that an accessory building or structure may not exceed 4.6 metres in 
height and one storey is varied to permit the conversion of an existing barn to an accessory building 
(workshop, office, and storage) with a maximum height of 8.61 metres and two storeys. 
The subject lot is located at 5410 Hooson Road on North Pender Island. The parcel is zoned as Rural (R) and is 
4.19 ha (10.348 ac) in area. The existing barn is sited lawfully on the property 7.73 metres from the interior side 
lot line which has a minimum required setback of 6.10 metres.  
 
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Islands Trust Staff Report 2 
Additional to the existing barn, the property has a principal dwelling currently under construction, and an 
accessory carport  under construction, as well as an existing greenhouse. The converted building would have a 
floor area of 183.54 m
2
, bringing the estimated total floor area of all buildings on the lot to 325m
2
 and well 
under the maximum permitted floor area of 3000m
2
 for a parcel of this size. The existing 

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