Islands Trust Task Force on Housing and Accommodation – Draft Report

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ISLANDS TRUST TASK FORCE ON HOUSING AND ACCOMODATION .
DRAFT REPORT
September 30 1994.

NOT FINAL ~- FOR COMMENT AND DISCUSSION

!. CORSTITUTION OF THE TASK FORCE
1.1. THE MARDATE

The Task Force was convened in April 1993 by the Islands Trust with 6 mandate to
“provide advice and recornmendations to the Salt Spring Island Trust Cormmittee on
the following issues related to housing on Salt Spring Island:

Seasonal cottages;
their use as perménent residences in contravention of existing
bylaws;
regulations to meet desirable results regarding the use of
season cottages.

Housing Supply mix;
the adequacy of the current housing riix, as regards price,
ownership/rentel mix, location:
the adequacy of projected housing miz for projected
Gemographics, including identification of a desirable level of
diversity; recommendations about ways of maintaining 4
desirable level of economic diversity.

Tourist accornodation:
the use of the existing housing supply and seasonal cottages for
tourist accommodation in contravention of existing bylaws:
recommendations about desirable means of providing for
tourist accomodation;
recommendations sbout regulations to meet the identified
desirable goals.”

1.2 MEMBERSHIP OF THE TASK FORCE

The mernbers of the Task Force, who were appointed by the Salt Spring Island
Trust Cornittee following edvertisernents in the Driftwood soliciting
participants, were:

David wood, Chair Jonathan Yardley, Co-Chair
Paul Adarris Leon Aptekmann

Alice Chartrand Phyllida Brurmmond

Mike Lambert Torn O'Connor

Bert Schuurmans Mary Sian

Dick Stubbs

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few members of the Task Force were obliged, because of the pressure of other
responsibilities or as a result of moving off-isalnd, to ste

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of our mandate. This report is signed by the members who served on the Task. Force
for the full terrn.

1.3. TASK FORCE OPERATIRG PROCEDURE
The Task Force first met in April 1992. The 16 month term of the Task Force hes
been spent as follows:

April 1992 - June 1993
Task Force organization; election of Officers: initial discussion of the topics:
icentification of areas of interest and skills of each member.

June 1993 - September 1993
Task Force divided itself into four working groups:

Rural island Cheracter

Growth and Development

Tourist Accomodation

Affordable Housing,
Each group spent the summer of 1993 focussing on one of these issues. The sim of
the groups waz io try to identify the problems facing Salt Spring in each category,
arid to seek out ideas ard potential solutions. At this stage we decided not to limit
our thinking by testing each idea for practicality. We wanted to emphasise
creativity and innovation over whether 4 particular idea was feasible or
enforceable.

October 1993 - January 1994

Fach working group reported hack to the Task Force a3 a whole. Each issue and
every idea brought forward was thoroughly debated, with the object of reaching a
concensus, or, when that was not possible, at le

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