Salt Spring LTC Special Meeting Minutes

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Minutes ADOPTED 1 
September 13, 2023 
  
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Special Meeting 
 
 
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 
  
Location: Beaver Point Hall  
1361 Beaver Point Road, Salt Spring Island
 
  
 
Members Present: 
 
 
Timothy Peterson, Chair 
Jamie Harris, Local Trustee  
Laura Patrick, Local Trustee   
 
Staff Present: 
 
Chris Hutton, Regional Planning Manager (RPM) 
Rob Pingle, Legislative Clerk 
Sarah Shugar, Recorder 
 
Others Present: Approximately 12 members of the public 
These minutes follow the order of the agenda although the sequence may have varied. The electronic 
meeting was live streamed, recorded, and made available for electronic public attendance.  
1. CALL TO ORDER 
 
 Chair Peterson called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. He welcomed everyone to a meeting of the 
Salt  Spring  Island  Local  Trust  Committee and  introduced  himself,  the Trustees  and  staff. Chair 
Peterson 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 
 
Chair Peterson opened the town hall at 5:04 p.m. 
 
Housing Action Program Task Force Member Bryce Chapman requested the LTC to approve Bylaw 
530 as soon as possible and noted long time residents and business owners are leaving Salt Spring 
Island  due  to  the  lack  of  housing,  other jurisdictions are looking  for  options  to  improve  the 
affordable housing situation and the LTC needs to produce workforce and employee housing and 
support families. Mr. Chapman spoke to intergenerational living and mortgage helper scenarios as 
part of Bylaw 530 and that Bylaw 530 would have an estimated 10-15 percent uptake that may add 
50 to 60 units to the housing stock. Mr. Chapman advised Bylaw 530 is a small first step to address 
the housing crisis and noted 97 percent of the community voted in favour of Bylaw 530 in a Housing 
Action Program survey. 
 

 
 
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A member of the public spoke to ongoing enforcement by Islands Trust bylaw enforcement for her 
business and rental units, that renting rooms is a necessary mortgage helper and asked why Bylaw 
Enforcement Manager Warren Dingman does not attend the LTC meetings. The member of the 
public reported her employees are being fined for cleaning Airbnb rentals and suggested an enquiry 
into the Islands Trust regarding bullying residents.  
 
Trustee Harris reported Trust Council is looking into bylaw enforcement concerns and it is a process 
that takes time. Trustee Harris expressed support for Bylaw 530 to be approved and for proactive 
enforcement of illegal housing to be stopped.  
 
Housing Action Program Task Force Member Maïkan Bordeleau expressed concern that the Housing 
Action Program Task Force was disbanded by the LTC and the work is incomplete, asked

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