Galiano LTC Regular Meeting Minutes
· Galiano Island · Meeting Documents · 2017
Original Trust document
· 128 KB
· SHA-256 18f8fd2b4f0fc9e0…
16,770 characters of machine-extracted text. Extraction is automatic and can be wrong; the original governs.
Topics: Aquaculture & shellfish · Climate & environment · First Nations & reconciliation · Governance & budget · Housing & affordability · Marine & foreshore — our classification, not the Trust's.
Extracted text (beginning)
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
First 3,000 characters. Open the original for the whole document.