South Pender LTC Regular Meeting Agenda

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Date: February 15, 2016 File No.: 6500-20-Waste Management 
To: North Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
 For the meeting of February 25, 2016 
  
From: Justine Starke, Island Planner, Local Planning Services 
  
CC: Robert Kojima, Regional Planning Manager 
Re: 
Amended Project Charter: Land Use Planning for Waste & Resource Management  
Purpose 
The purpose of this report is to present the North Pender Island Local Trust Committee (LTC) with an 
updated Project Charter and new scope of work for pursuing the LTC top priority project: Land Use 
Planning for Waste & Resource Management.  Previously, this work was designed to be led by the Waste 
and Resource Management Special Advisory Planning Commission (WRMC). 
 
Background 
The Waste & Resource Management Commission (WRMC) was established to research best practices, 
conduct community analysis, and give advice on the ideal locations and preferred scope of waste 
management that should be pursued on the Pender Islands. Specifically, the objectives included: 
 To develop criteria for siting waste transfer facilities 
 To inventory existing industrial land. 
 To reach community consensus on the location and scope of waste management on NPI 
 To map proposed locations for current/future waste management facilities. 
 Collaboration with CRD to ensure a comprehensive understanding and approach. 
 
On January 28, 2016, the North Pender Island Local Trust Committee considered community concerns 
and questions regarding the objectivity of the WRMC, and decided to dissolve the Commission. The LTC 
directed staff to pursue a similar process, led by planning staff with assistance from consultants as 
required. 
 
At its last couple of meetings, the WRMC made progress on creating a categorized list of land selection 
criteria for siting waste transfer stations.  The WRMC also agreed that different types of waste transfer 
operations would have different land use impacts. Understanding that there may be variations on the 
different models, the WRMC proposed a range of five basic types of waste transfer operations: 
 
a) Full waste transfer station (referred to as the “full meal deal”): public drop off, drop off by waste 
management operators, recycling, storage, sorting, crushing, and transferring.  
b) Waste transfer station/drop off combo: has public drop off, operator drop off, sorting, crushing, 
storing, and transferring.  
c) Waste Transfer Station Only: No public access, single operator.  
d) Waste & Organics Transfer Station: Includes separate bins to collect organic waste, possibly could 
include commercial composting.  

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