Lasqueti LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Special Meeting 
 
Date: 
Location: 
 
 
March 28, 2018 
Judith Fisher Centre 
#1 China Cloud Bay Road 
Lasqueti Island, BC 
Members Present: Laura Busheikin, Chair - via teleconference 
Susan Morrison, Local Trustee 
Timothy Peterson, Local Trustee, Acting Chair 
 
Staff Present: 
 
 
Others Present: 
 
Sonja Zupanec, Island Planner - via teleconference 
Dave Olsen, Recorder 
 
There were eight (8) members of the public in attendance. 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Acting Chair Peterson called the meeting to order at 10:01 am.  He acknowledged that the 
meeting was being held in territory of the Coast Salish First Nations.  He introduced the Staff and 
Trustees. 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
The following additions to the agenda were presented for consideration: 
3. TOWN HALL 
5. TOWN HALL 
By general consent the agenda was adopted as amended. 
3. TOWN HALL 
 A number of questions were asked and the following exchanges were noted: 
 What are the requirements to hold a meeting? 
o 48 hours notice, with the standard notifications: Islands Trust website update and 
physical postings.  Sending to the email list is optional but usually done. 
 Will cluster housing still be possible after this bylaw change? 
o There is no amendment on the table.  The point of the meeting is for the LTC to consider 
next steps. 
 If you do this amendment, can we do cluster housing?  Average lot size allowed for that. 
o Bylaw 95 did not include any conservation measures for subdivision regulations; those 
were part of the Shoreline Protection Project.   
Staff continued the discussion by noting the following: 

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o The current Land Use Bylaw (LUB) with “average lot size” allows someone to lop off 1 
acre many times until there are lots of small lots. 
o Based on the legal opinion, there is no provision to prevent that.  This could be severely 
abused. 
o The existing subdivision regulations allow for cluster housing.  What it does not do is 
protect that large piece, which can still be subdivided.   
The following comments were then noted: 
 The possibility of cluster housing should be included in any future bylaw. 
 If we divide the whole island into 10 acre lots, there won’t be any forest left.  We need 
cluster housing to keep the viability of forest ecosystems. 
Trustees responded with the following:  
o Because average lot size was brought to our attention, we took this piece out. 
o We currently don’t have any protection; there is nothing in the bylaw that would 
prevent further subdivision of large pieces.   
o We’ve singled this out because most people thought we had a 10 acre minimum. 
o If we are going to do cluster housing, we need to protect those large pieces in 
perpetuity. 
o Generally covenants prevent tree cutting but those lots are often meant for fire

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