Gambier LTC Regular Meeting Agenda

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Gambier Island Local Trust Committee
Regular Meeting Addendum
 
Date:July 26, 2018
Time:10:45 am
Location:Keats Camp - Pilot House
Keats Camp, Keats Island, BC
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14.NEW BUSINESS
11:25 AM - 11:55 AM
14.6Regional Conservation Plan Briefing from the Trust Conservancy
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Islands Trust Conservancy Briefing Page 1 
 
 
 
 
BRIEFING 
 
 
To: Local Trust Committees and  
 Bowen Island Municipality  For the Meeting of: July 26, 2018 
 
From:  Islands Trust Conservancy Date Prepared: July 17, 2018 
 
SUBJECT: Incorporating the Regional Conservation Plan into Land Use Planning 
 
 
PURPOSE: The Islands Trust Conservancy is providing all local trust committees and Bowen Island 
Municipality with a briefing to provide information on the ways the Islands Trust Conservancy’s 2018-
2027 Regional Conservation Plan and associated mapping and data can be incorporated into Official 
Community Plans, Land Use Bylaws and local planning initiatives and projects.  
 
BACKGROUND:  
In March, Trust Council endorsed the Islands Trust Fund’s Regional Conservation Plan. At its April 2018 
meeting, the Trust Fund Board (now Islands Trust Conservancy) passed the following resolution: 
That the Trust Fund Board direct staff to provide a briefing to all local trust committees and 
Bowen Island Municipality requesting that consideration be given to incorporating elements of 
the 2018-2027 Regional Conservation Plan (including associated data and mapping) into Official 
Community Plans. 
The Regional Conservation Plan contains significant information about regional conservation priorities 
that could be considered when making land use planning decisions. This information is informed by 
conservation area modelling, which uses multiple data sets regarding biodiversity priorities and threats 
to ecosystems. The information is available by local trust area/island municipality.  
Why do we have a Regional Conservation Plan? 
The rich diversity of life in the Islands Trust Area makes the region ecologically significant, not only 
locally, but globally. Most of the region is within the Coastal Douglas-fir zone, one of the rarest of British 
Columbia’s 16 biogeoclimatic zones. The Douglas-fir ecosystems of this zone, including Garry oak and 
associated ecosystems, are globally rare – in the entire world they occur only on the east coast of 
southern Vancouver Island, the islands of the Georgia Basin, and a small area of the mainland. The 
Islands Trust Area is also home to several other sensitive and rare ecosystems and hundreds of rare 
terrestrial and marine plants and animals. 
Despite its ecological significance, biodiversity in the Islands Trust Area is exposed to significant threats. 
With over 68% of the Islands Trust Area in private land ownership and over 3.3 million people living in 
the surrounding areas, the pressures to develop and change the natural landscape in the islands are 
substantial. 
Because of the significance of the ecosystems found in the 

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