Galiano LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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Galiano Island  
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
March 21, 2017     ADOPTED       Page 1 of 9 
 
 
Galiano Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date: 
Location: 
March 21, 2017 
Galiano South Community Hall 
141 Sturdies Bay Road, Galiano Island, BC 
 
Members Present Laura Busheikin, Chair 
Sandy Pottle, Local Trustee 
George Harris, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present Rob Milne, Islands Planner 
Colleen Doty, Recorder 
Fiona MacRaild, Senior Intergovernmental Policy Advisor 
  
Others Present Approximately 15 members of the public and no media 
 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
 
Chair Busheikin called the meeting to order at 11:05 am.  She acknowledged the 
meeting was being held in territory of the Coast Salish First Nations.  Introductions were 
made. 
 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
 
The following additions to the agenda were presented for consideration: 
 
- Rezoning application guidelines and practices added as New Business Item 13.2. 
- Electronic meetings added as New Business Item 13.3.   
- C2C (Community to Community) grant added as New Business Item 13.4. 
 
By general consent the agenda was approved as amended. 
 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS 
 
Stephen Rybak inquired as to whether the current regulatory regime respecting private 
docks needed improvement and asked what was broken with the process. 
 
Trustee Pottle provided some background, explaining there had been conflicts between 
property owners about docks, such as the orientation of docks. Many difficulties had 
been brought before the Local Trust Committee (LTC). Foreshore is Crown land which 
involves aboriginal rights and title. In Sechelt the government declared a moratorium on 
docks because of FN interests; as Crown land, foreshore necessarily comes under the 
Tsilhqot’in decision (William, SCC 2014).  
 
A D O P T E D 

 
 
Galiano Island  
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
March 21, 2017     ADOPTED       Page 2 of 9 
Louise Decario was pleased that New Business Item 13.2 (rezoning process) was 
added to the agenda. She noted planners should be getting direction from LTC before 
drafting bylaws and not the other way around. She was concerned that more conflict was 
unnecessarily being created. With respect to the dock review, she wanted her views 
presented to the planners, yet they were not present. She found the 11am start to 
meetings difficult. She asked how best to could get her views to the planners.  
 
Chair Busheikin agreed the meeting time was not ideal. Chair Busheikin stated that the 
LTC provides direction to staff, and indicated that comments about the dock review 
would be presented to the planners.  
 
Trustee Pottle noted that draft bylaws should be contained in the final staff report. She 
agreed that having draft bylaws up front causes conflict. 
 
Louise Decario noted the Galiano Conservancy Association application was delayed by 
a month because they did not see the staff report until it was in the package. She 
indicated support for a dock review pro

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