Regional Planning Committee Regular Meeting Agenda

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Regional Planning Committee
Agenda
 
Date:Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Time:10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location:Electronic Zoom Meeting
Pages
1.  CALL TO ORDER
2.  AGENDA
2.1  Review of the Agenda
Late items, new items and re-ordering of the agenda
2.2  Approval of Agenda
3.  PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
4.  DELEGATIONS
None.
5.  CORRESPONDENCE
5.1  Letter from Harlene Holm, February 14, 2023 re: Freshwater Sustainability Strategy
4 - 5
5.2  E-mail from Trustee Peterson, August 30, 2023 re: LTC Project Funding
6 - 7
6.  ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION
6.1  Draft Minutes of Previous Meetings
For review and approval
6.1.1  RPC Regular Meeting Minutes of April 27, 2023
8 - 14
6.1.2  RPC Special Meeting Minutes of July 27, 2023
15 - 18
6.2  Resolutions Without Meeting
None.
6.3  Follow up Action List
19 - 21
For review
7.  BUSINESS - WORK PROGRAM ITEMS

7.1  Housing Affordability
7.1.1  Housing Scan - BRF
22 - 27
7.1.2  Housing Needs Gaps Analysis - BRF
28 - 40
7.1.3  Housing Strategy - RFD
41 - 48
that Regional Planning Committee amend the Draft Housing Strategy as
follows:
[List...], and
•
request staff to return the revised Housing Strategy and Housing
Options Toolkit to
the next regular business meeting
•
7.2  Fiscal Year 2024/25 Business Cases
49 - 63
that Regional Planning Committee forward to Financial Planning Committee for
inclusion in the Fiscal Year 2024/25 budget business cases for:
completing Eelgrass Mapping,
•
updating Housing Need Reports for all local trust areas except Salt Spring
Island Local
Trust Area, and
•
advancing and Implementing a Housing Strategy and Housing Options
Toolkit.
•
8.  BUSINESS - OTHER
8.1  Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - RFD
64 - 73
8.2  Governance Review - Annex 1 Recommendations Summary - BRF
74 - 97
9.  BUSINESS - NEW
10.  WORK PROGRAM
98 - 102
For review and referral to Trust Council before each quarterly TC meeting
11.  NEXT MEETING
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
12.  CLOSED MEETING
If desired:
That the meeting be closed to the public in accordance with the Community Charter, Part 4,
Division 3, s.90, (quote the pertinent section here, for example, (1)(a) personal information
about...) and that the recorder and staff [attend/not attend] the meeting.
13.  RISE AND REPORT
If desired
2

14.  ADJOURNMENT
*Approximate time is provided for the convenience of the public only and is subject to change
without notice.
3

Islands Trust Freshwater Sustainability Strategy: “great cry and little wool.”

If strategy is defined as a detailed plan for achieving success, the Freshwater 
Sustainability Strategy December 2021 report remains at the ruminating stage. 
Page 35 of the report outlines the decade-long planning program, timeline and 
budget. A decade to spend taxpayer money while watersheds and wetlands are 
destroyed, wells go dry, and aquifer salinization increases.

The report reflects the July 2020 Project Charter wherein aquifer protection 
plans are “out of scope.” There is no sign of a 

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