Salt Spring Island OCP Bylaw No. 434 - Natural Hazard Areas

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee         19                                                                  Otober 2020 
Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 434 – Volume 1 (Consolidated) 
 
A.7 NATURAL HAZARD AREAS  
 
A.7.1 OBJECTIVES 
 
A.7.1.1 To  identify  and  guide  development  away  from  areas  known  to  have  natural  hazards,  such  as 
unstable slopes, highly erodible soils, wildfire, or the potential for flooding.  
 
A.7.1.2 To  avoid the  creation  of  new  flooding  hazards or  the  aggravating  of  existing  flood  hazards that 
could result from changes to stormwater drainage patterns. 
 
A.7.1.3 To support efforts to educate residents and to coordinate emergency preparedness. 
 
A.7.2 POLICIES 
 
A.7.2.1 Zoning  will  continue  to  include  the  setbacks  from  water  bodies  requested  by  the  Ministry  of 
Environment to protect development from flooding.  If applicable, the Committee will ensure that 
required setbacks do not conflict with the Code of Agricultural Practice for Waste Management or 
the standards for normal farm practices established under the Farm Practices Protection (Right to 
Farm)  Act.   The  Local  Trust  Committee  may  consider  changes  to  zoning  to  establish  a  new 
elevation above areas potentially subject to flooding. 
 
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A.7.2.2 
The Local Trust Committee will continue to require applicants for large new commercial, general 
employment or  multifamily  developments  in  village  areas  to  ensure  their  development  does  not 
increase   flooding   of   downslope   properties.      Such   effects   will   be   managed   through   the 
Development Permit process or through Land Use Bylaw regulations. 
  
A.7.2.3 The Local Trust Committee should consider rezoning applications from property owners who wish 
to  transfer  their  development  potential  from  areas  identified  on  Maps  13  and  14  as  subject  to 
natural  hazards.  Specific  areas  should  be  considered  "Development  Potential Donor Areas", 
even  if  they  are  in  a  Designation  that  is  a  Development  Potential  Receiving  Area.    Applications 
should meet the guidelines in Appendix 4.  The LTC should consider preparing new mapping of 
areas subject to natural hazards and refine “Development Potential Donor Areas.” 
 
A.7.2.4 The  Local  Trust  Committee  should  not  approve  applications  for  rezoning  that  would  increase 
development in areas with natural hazards. 
 
A.7.2.5 The  Local  Trust  Committee  will  support  programs  to  respond  to  community  emergencies  and 
disasters and will participate in emergency measures planning and related initiatives. 
 
A.7.2.6 The  Local  Trust  Committee  will  continue  to  share  information  it  has  acquired  about  natural 
hazards with other agencies concerned with land development on Salt Spring Island. 
 
A.7.2.7 The Local Trust Committee will undertake initiatives to update its mapping of areas on Salt Spring 
Island  that  are  poten

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