Thetis LTC Special Meeting Minutes

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ADOPTED 
Thetis Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 1 
Special Meeting Minutes 
May 31, 2019 
 
Thetis Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Special Meeting 
Date: 
Location: 
May 31, 2019 
Beban Park Social Centre 
2300 Bowen Road 
Rooms 7 and 8 
Nanaimo, BC 
 
Members Present: Laura Patrick, Chair 
Doug Fenton, Local Trustee 
Peter Luckham, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present: Ann Kjerulf, Regional Planning Manager 
Marnie Eggen, Island Planner 
Miles Drew, Bylaw Enforcement Manager 
 Katherine Vogt, Recorder 
  
Others Present: Approximately fourteen (14) members of the public 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER and APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
Chair Patrick called the special meeting to order at 1:04 pm. She acknowledged that the meeting 
was being held in territory of the Coast Salish First Nations. She introduced herself, local 
trustees and staff. 
By general consent the agenda was approved as presented. 
2. COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING:  RUXTON ISLAND MOORAGE STRUCTURES REVIEW 
PROJECT 
2.1 Presentation on the Project and Proposed Bylaw Amendment No. 103 
Planner Eggen summarized the “Ruxton Island Private Moorage Structures Review” staff 
report, noting that the impetus for proposed Bylaw No. 103 was to amend the current 
bylaw: ‘Thetis Associated Islands Land Use Bylaw No.94, 2014 (Land Use Bylaw),’ so as to 
prevent the unintentional allowing of marine and foreshore structures with negative 
visual and environmental impacts; and to provide clarity that private docks and dock-
like structures are prohibited.  
Planner Eggen described how platforms, boat ramps, equipment, boathouses, stairs, 
walkways, swim floats and mooring buoys were currently defined and how they would 
be regulated following adoption of Bylaw No. 103.  

  ADOPTED 
Thetis Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 2 
Special Meeting Minutes 
May 31, 2019 
2.2 Public Questions and Answer Session 
Chair Patrick directed that this portion of the meeting be limited to questions and 
answers and that comments by members of the public be saved for the Public Hearing 
portion of the meeting. 
Members of the public asked the following questions and were answered by staff: 
 Was it possible for a property owner to seek rezoning of an adjacent foreshore to 
construct a private dock under the new bylaw? 
o Planner Eggen responded yes. 
 Do property owners have historical riparian foreshore rights to develop access that 
supersede Islands Trust Bylaws? 
o Manager Drew responded that common law only stands in the absence of 
bylaws. 
 Was it allowable for large barges or boats connected to large metal ramps to be 
utilized in place of proper rafts and ramps? 
o Manager Drew responded that if used as a boat it would be allowable, as a float 
it would not be. 
o Planner Eggen noted that such combinations of structures were allowable under 
existing bylaws. Under the new bylaw, such structures could be maintained in 
place as legal non-conforming structures that could not be replaced or moved. 
Under the new 

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