Salt Spring Island OCP Bylaw No. 434 - Vision

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee         7                                                                  Otober 2020 
Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 434 – Volume 1 (Consolidated) 
 
PART A - OVERALL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 
 
 
A.1 THE ISLANDS TRUST 
 
In recognition of the unique amenities and environment of the Gulf Islands, the  province passed the Islands 
Trust Act in 1974 which established the Islands Trust with a mandate, embodied in the “object” of the Islands 
Trust: 
 
“The object of the trust is to preserve and protect the trust area and its unique amenities and environment for 
the  benefit  of  the  residents  of  the  trust  area  and  of  British  Columbia  generally,  in  cooperation  with 
municipalities, regional districts, improvement districts, other  persons and organizations and the government 
of British Columbia.” 
 
The Islands Trust Area encompasses the Gulf Islands and water areas stretching from Denman Island in the 
north to the US border in the south, and from the foreshore of Vancouver Island to the Mainland.  As part of 
the Islands Trust Area, planning for Salt Spring Island must consider and address the unique mandate of the 
Islands  Trust.   The  Salt  Spring  Island  Local  Trust  Area  is  one  of 12  local  trust  areas  and  one  Island 
Municipality within the Islands Trust Area.  Each Local Trust Committee has been provided with most of the 
land use planning authority of a regional district board.   
 
 
A.2 THE SALT SPRING ISLAND OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN 
 
A.2.1 This Official Community Plan provides a community vision for Salt Spring Island and defines the 
land  use objectives, policies  and  actions  that  could  achieve  this  vision.  It  acts  as  a  guide  for 
future  decisions  of  the  Salt  Spring  Island  Local  Trust Committee (“the Local Trust Committee”), 
community members, other levels of government and service providers. 
 
A.2.2 The Plan explains the way in which the Islands Trust Policy Statement can be put into effect on 
Salt Spring Island. 
 
Note:  As a plan created under both the Islands Trust Act and Local Government Act this Plan 
must be and is guided by that Statement. 
 
A.3 VISION  
 
We live in a place of extraordinary beauty, great environmental significance, and rare biological diversity. We 
appreciate and accept our responsibility to be the stewards of our island home, to honour its past, care for its 
present, and protect its future.  We know that it is more important to leave a legacy than to leave an impact. 
 
We also respect our island’s human heritage – the First Nations peoples who lived in harmony with the land 
and sea, and whose traditional territory we inhabit, and the early Hawaiian, black and Japanese pioneers who 
landed on these shores with little more than their cultures and their determination and turned them into a way 
of life.  And we acknowledge the old island families, with their diverse origins, whose generations have served 
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