Mayne LTC Community Workshop Minutes

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Mayne Island Local Trust Committee 
Community Workshop on Housing 
October 28, 2024 FINAL Page 1 of 4 
 
Mayne Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Community Housing Workshop 
 
Date:  
Location:  
October 28, 2024 
Mayne Island Agricultural Hall 
430 Fernhill Road, Mayne Island, BC 
 
Members Present: Tobi Elliott, Chair 
 David Maude, Local Trustee 
 Jeanine Dodds, Local Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Narissa Chadwick, Island Planner  
 Lisa Millard, Meeting Administrator/Recorder (electronic) 
  
Others Present: Justine Starke, Manager of Southern Gulf Islands Service Delivery for the 
Capital Regional District 
  
 There were approximately thirteen (13) members of the public present 
 
1. WELCOME 
Chair Elliott opened the workshop at 1:30 p.m. She acknowledged that the gathering was held in 
territory of the Coast Salish First Nations and welcomed attendees and speakers. 
2. COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ON HOUSING OPTIONS 
Island Planner Chadwick provided a presentation and highlighted the following: 
 Elements of affordable housing within the Local Trust Area include permitted land uses, 
funding, ownership models, governmental regulations, and community housing groups 
 Local Trust Committee looks at Official Community Plan policies to align with zoning that can 
support housing 
 The Housing Action Plan looks at expanding flexible housing options, adapting zoning to 
allow housing in areas that currently don’t allow it, increasing areas where secondary suites 
are allowed, permitting additional dwelling units on smaller lots, expanding permissions to 
rezone non-market housing, allowing rezoning for modular home villages and increasing 
opportunities for non-profit housing societies 
 Suitable land analysis mapping takes into consideration environmentally sensitive areas, 
water availability, and steep slopes 
 Islands Trust regulates land use and works in collaboration with other agencies and 
governments that have authorities around housing development and regulations 
 Zoning amendments can be made to support a variety of approaches to housing including 
cooperative housing, collective ownership, and strata ownership 
 
A D O P T E D 

 
Mayne Island Local Trust Committee 
Community Workshop on Housing 
October 28, 2024 FINAL Page 2 of 4 
Justine Starke, Manager of Southern Gulf Islands Service Delivery for the Capital Regional 
District provided a presentation and spoke to the following: 
 Community Economic Sustainability Commission has identified the need for affordable 
housing as one of the biggest obstacles to the economic future of the Gulf Islands and is 
working to develop a housing strategy for Southern Gulf Islands 
 There is a shortage of housing for the diversity of the population and the demographic 
makeup of the community 
 Bringing in tradespeople and supplies and having to build water and sewer systems creates 
higher building costs 
 Capital Regional District has created a rural housing program 
 It is necessary to w

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