Islands Trust Conservancy Regular Meeting Addendum

Extracted text (beginning)

Islands Trust Conservancy
Addendum
 

Date:Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Time:10:00 am
Location:Islands Trust Victoria Boardroom
200-1627 Fort Street, Victoria, BC
Pages
5.BUSINESS
5.1.Items for Approval
5.1.5.Livingstone Forest NAPTEP Covenant Amendments (Lasqueti) - Request for
Decision
2 - 58

Islands Trust Conservancy  Request For Decision Page 1 
 
 
 
REQUEST FOR DECISION 
 
 
To:   ITC Board  For the Meeting of: July 13, 2022 
     
From: Staff  Date Prepared: July 13, 2022 
     
SUBJECT: Livingstone Forest NAPTEP Covenant Amendments 
 
 
RECOMMENDATION(S): That the Islands Trust Conservancy Board authorizes the Chair to sign a 
covenant with Douglas Hopwood and Christine Ferris, over the Land described as PID 000-009-474, the 
West ½ of the South East ¼ of Section 21, Lasqueti Island, Nanaimo District, Except Parts in Plans 17116 
and 30313, as approved at its November 23, 2021 meeting (Resolution # ITC-IC-2021-042), with the 
following amendments, as requested by the Agricultural Land Commission: 
1. The addition of language to reference ALC Resolution #116/2022, indicating that the ALC be 
notified of any covenant amendments; and, 
2. Clarification that the trail noted in clause 4.3 (a) are for the use of the landowner and are not 
intended to be public. 
  
 
1 PURPOSE: To satisfy the requirements of the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) to register a 
covenant to protect 11.35 ha of wetland, riparian areas, and mature forest on Lasqueti Island. 
 
2 BACKGROUND: At its March 31, 2015 meeting the Islands Trust Conservancy Board passed the 
following resolution: 
TFB-IC-2015-030 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, That the Trust Fund Board approve the proposal to covenant 
approximately 12 ha (30 acres) of the land owned by Douglas Hopwood and Christine Ferris and 
described as PID 000-009-474, the West ½ of the South East ¼ of Section 21, Lasqueti Island, 
Nanaimo District, Except Parts in Plans 17116 and 30313. 
 
The land is in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) and the ITC, acting as the agent for the 
landowner, applied to the ALC for a change of use from agricultural to conservation in March 
2017 in order to permit the covenant to be registered. The permission of the ALC is required to 
register Sec. 219 Covenants on land in the ALR. The ALC indicated that they would permit the 
covenant and change of use provided the landowners placed the remainder of their lot into the 
ALR. The landowners paused the application following the ALC decision to consider other options. 
After consideration of other options, in April 2021, the applicant decided to accept the ALC 
decision and move forward with the conservation covenant.  
 
ITC staff conveyed the applicant’s decision to the ALC and, upon further consideration, the ALC 
elected to reconsider its decision because “it came to the Panel’s attention that the wording of 
condition a. incorrectly requires that the approved covenant be applied to the entire Property 
instead of the proposed 7.5 ha cov

First 3,000 characters. Open the original for the whole document.