Salt Spring Island OCP Bylaw No. 434 - Power and Telecommunications Objectives and Policies

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee         90                                                                  Otober 2020 
Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 434 – Volume 1 (Consolidated) 
 
C.5 POWER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES 
 
C.5.1 General Objectives and Policies 
 
C.5.1.1 OBJECTIVES 
 
C.5.1.1.1 To  accommodate  the  facilities  that  provide  Salt  Spring  Island  with  necessary  power  and 
telecommunications  services,  while  minimizing  impacts  on  neighbourhoods,  community  health,  
the natural environment and resource lands. 
 
C.5.1.1.2 To accommodate telecommunications  facilities  that Industry  Canada  considers must be  located 
on Salt Spring Island. 
 
C. 5.1.1.3 To develop land use planning policies that help reduce the public expense of utilities. 
 
C.5.1.2 POLICIES 
 
C.5.1.2.1 The Local Trust Committee should ensure that  land is not rezoned for  higher density residential 
use, child care, schools, health care or public assembly in areas where electromagnetic radiation 
is higher than normal. 
 
C.5.1.2.2 The Local  Trust  Committee could  include  guidelines  regarding  the  burial  of  utility  wiring  in  its 
Development Permit Areas.   
 
Others are encouraged to help achieve the objectives of this Section as follows: 
 
C.5.1.2.3 B.C. Transmission Corporation is asked not to increase the current flow in its transmission lines 
that  cross  Salt  Spring  Island,  unless  public  exposure  to  electromagnetic  fields  would  not  be 
increased.  The utility  is also asked not to develop new high voltage transmission lines in areas 
that are designated for medium or high density residential use, health care, child care, schools, or 
public assembly buildings. 
 
C.5.1.2.4 Utility  companies  operating  on  Salt  Spring  Island  are  encouraged  to  continue  to  use  the  best 
management  practices  to  control  vegetation  on  utility  line  rights-of-way.  The  use  of  pesticides, 
herbicides  and  fungicides is  particularly  discouraged  in  catchment  areas for  community drinking 
water supplies and environmentally sensitive areas. 
 
C.5.1.2.5 Utility companies and the Integrated Land Management Bureau are encouraged to investigate the 
joint  use  of  utility  towers  and  other  facilities  as  an  alternative  to  the  development  of  new  or 
additional structures.

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