Lasqueti LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
Date: 
Location: 
July 23, 2018 
Judith Fisher Centre 
#1 China Cloud Bay Road 
Lasqueti Island, BC 
 
Members Present: Laura Busheikin, Chair 
 Susan Morrison, Local Trustee 
 Timothy Peterson, Local Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Sonja Zupanec, Island Planner 
 Dave Olsen, Recorder 
  
Others Present: There were ten (10) members of the public in attendance 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Please note, the order of agenda items may be modified during the meeting. Times are provided 
for convenience only and are subject to change." 
Chair Busheikin called the meeting to order at 11:03 am. She acknowledged that the meeting was being 
held in territory of the Coast Salish First Nations and introduced the staff and Trustees present. 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
By general consent the agenda was approved as presented. 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS 
Chair Busheikin introduced the session and took a speaker’s list. 
3.11(1) Subdivision Regulation Review 
Members of the public made the following comments regarding the staff report for Bylaw 95: 
 The proposal to re-add a 20-acre minimum for any parcel of land within the Agricultural 
Land Reserve (ALR) was previously considered by the Local Trust Committee (LTC) in the first 
iteration of Bylaw 95, and the LTC directed staff to remove this proposal from the Bylaw.  
 The stated intent of Bylaw 95 was to revise the policy wording of the Land Use Bylaw (LUB) 
for a very specific concern regarding 10-acre minimum lot sizes to be consistent with the 
contextual text in the Official Community Plan (OCP). Given that an OCP review is just 
starting, additional changes within Bylaw 95 are inappropriate at this point. 
 The Advisory Planning Commission (APC) recently reviewed the current draft of Bylaw 95. If 
there is a substantive change to the bylaw, the APC should be given the opportunity for 
another review. The APC recommended that section 3.11 of the LUB apply to all land, not 
just land outside the ALR.  
 The rationale for the amendment proposed in the staff report is from the referral response 
from the Ministry of Agriculture, even though the Ministry did not mention anything about 
lot size. The Ministry only suggested clarity around zone boundaries in relation to ALR land, 

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which is a suitable topic for the OCP review, as the staff report states. Further, the Ministry 
clarified that land use within the ALR is the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Land Commission 
(ALC). Since the mandate of the ALC is to protect agricultural land, there is no urgent need 
for the LTC to change the regulations regarding ALR land, and consideration of any 
additional protections of agricultural land should be done via the OCP review process.  
 The LTC should continue with the direction set by the LTC at the

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