Trust Council Late Item Package

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J. Eastick re: for Trust Council's consideration
E. FitzZaland re: Policy Statement Discussion
S. Palmer re: Policy Statement, Housing and Communities
D. Goldman re: Policy Statement, Housing and Communities
A. Hodson re: Driftwood News Survey
A. Olsen MLA re: Broadband services
B. McConchie re: Oceans Protection Plan Dialogue Forum 2021 - Anchorages
Minister Fleming re: Election and Appointment
D. Bouvier re: Live and Let Live
R. Holmes re: Policy Statement
G. Brazier re: TC Agenda
M. Auerbach re: Policy Statement Project
E. O'Brien re: Denman feeback on inclusion
S. Frei re: IT Policy Statement
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Dear Trustees, 
I was literally blown-away when someone posted the URL for this Islands Trust Report, dated February 
2020 called “The State of the Islands Indicators Project  Final Report ” on Facebook. 
 http://www.islandstrust.bc.ca/media/349032/tas_2020-02_stateoftheislands_finalreport-with-
survey_final.pdf 
I quote from the report: “Informed discussions about how we can all preserve and protect the Islands 
Trust Area depend on being firmly grounded in the realities that surround us. All too often, in the 
absence of insightful indicators, we form opinions and beliefs based on anecdotal experiences or 
feelings about how things are. This report includes a selection of socio-economic and environmental 
indicators that illustrate what is happening on our islands and in our communities.” 
This graph was particularly concerning to me: 
 
It shows that 2 Islands are near and one other is already in the ‘zone of harm’ to their ecosystems. What 
is troubling me even more is that this report does not represent the reality. The reality being that every 
Island has existing unrealised development potential that are not factored-in in the report. For example, 
Gabriola Island, which is already the second most densified per square kilometer Island in the Trust Area 

after Bowen Island (Census Canada) may see the doubling of its population without creating a single new 
density. I wonder how the graph would look like if a computer-modelling was generated to show where 
the Islands would be in this graph if their ‘development potential was factored-in.  
 When did Staff produce your last Development Potential (aka Built-Out) Map? Do you know? On 
Gabriola such a map was last produced in 2010. An up-to-date Map will apparently be released soon but, 
ironically, after the conclusion of a community-wide consultation on Housing Options....and also after a 
Bylaw Process that would create a bonus density land-use designation for housing, now at Ministerial 
Approval stage. 
At least Gambier, Lasqueti, Thetis, Saturna, Galiano and even Bowen Islands do not need to need worry 
yet unless of course, their ‘hidden’ potential is through-the-roof.  
How/when did your Island respond to a government directive to insert affordable housing policies in their 
OCP in the mid-90s? In 1996, Gabriola adopted a new OCP and c

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