Salt Spring LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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Topics: Housing & affordability · Bylaw enforcement · First Nations & reconciliation · Transportation & ferries · Governance & budget · Climate & environment — our classification, not the Trust's.

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Minutes ADOPTED 1 
March 7, 2024 
  
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
 
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024 
  
Location: Meaden Hall 
120 Blain Road, Salt Spring Island 
  
 
Members Present: 
 
 
Peter Luckham, Alternate Chair 
Jamie Harris, Local Trustee  
Laura Patrick, Local Trustee   
 
Staff Present: 
 
Chris Hutton, Regional Planning Manager (RPM) 
Jason Youmans, Island Planner 
Charly Caproff, Planner 1 (Zoom) 
Warren Dingman, Bylaw Compliance and Enforcement Manager (BCEM) 
Rob Pingle, Legislative Clerk 
Sarah Shugar, Recorder 
 
Others Present: Gary  Holman,  Capital  Regional  District  (CRD)  Salt  Spring  Island  Electoral 
Area Director 
Earl  Rook, Capital  Regional  District Salt  Spring  Island Local  Community 
Commission (LCC) Chair 
Approximately 6 members of the public 
These minutes follow  the  order  of  the  agenda  although  the  sequence  may  have  varied. The  electronic 
meeting was live streamed and recorded. 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
 
 Alternate  Chair  Luckham called  the  meeting  to order  at  9:38 a.m.  He welcomed  everyone  to the 
meeting of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee and introduced himself, the Trustees and 
staff.  Chair Luckham humbly  stated  gratitude  to  live  and  work  in  Coast  Salish  First  Nations 
territory. 
 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
 
 By general consent, the agenda was adopted. 
 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS 
 
Alternate Chair Luckham opened the town hall at 9:42 a.m. 
 
CRD  Southern  Gulf  Islands  (SGI) Electoral  Area Alternate  Director  Robert Fenton advised  he 
represents  a  client  who  is  being  evicted  out  of  a  trailer  and  is  planning  to  move  due  to  lack  of 
available  housing.  Alternate  CRD SGI Director  Fenton  suggested  that  trailers are  providing 

 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Minutes ADOPTED 2 
March 7, 2024 
  
affordable  housing  during  the  housing  crisis  and  Trustees  should  acknowledge  trailers  are  being 
used as such. CRD SGI Director Fenton strongly urged the LTC to take action and offered support 
to help with the issue. 
 
Transition  Salt  Spring Board  Chair Bryan  Young presented  a  submission  entitled “Transition  Salt 
Spring Position on Staff Report and Appendices being considered by LTC on March 7, 2024 LTC File 
Number  6500-20:  SSI  OCP  LUB  Update  Project” and  highlighted  that Transition  Salt  Spring 
commends staff  for  work  done  on  this  complex  project, supports  an  Official Community Plan 
update  rather  than  a  wholesale  review, and  recommends  that housing  should  be  considered 
interdependent  with  First Nations  interests,  ecosystem  integrity  and  climate  change  resiliency. 
Transition Salt Spring made several recommendations regarding the consultation and engagement 
phase and  requested  the  LTC review  the  submission  and  ensure  that  civil  society  plays  an 
important role in the Off

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