Gambier LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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ADOPTED 
Gambier Island ADOPTED 1 
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
January 21, 2016 
 
Gambier Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date: 
Location: 
January 21, 2016 
John Braithwaite Community Centre 
145 West 1st Street 
North Vancouver, BC 
 
Members Present 
Susan Morrison, Chair 
Kate-Louise Stamford, Local Trustee  
Dan Rogers, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present 
 
 
 
Also Present 
Aleksandra Brzozowski, Island Planner 
Miles Drew, Bylaw Enforcement Coordinator 
Diane Corbett, Recorder 
 
Members of the Public – 7 (a.m.); 3 (p.m.) 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
 
Chair Morrison called the meeting to order at 10:46 a.m.  She acknowledged that the 
meeting was being held in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations.  She 
introduced trustees and staff in attendance and thanked members of the public for 
attending. 
 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
 
The following additions to the agenda were presented for consideration: 
 
 10.2: Add Emails Received from: Andrea Harbour, January 12, 2016; and Ken 
Sneddon, January 20, 2016 
 10.3 Referral from Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations 
Regarding Log Dump at Folger Creek 
 15.1 Howe Sound Community Forum 
 15.2 Trustee Rogers’ Attendance at Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference  
 15.3 DVP 2016.1 BC Hydro 
 16.1 Discussion of Location for March Meeting 
 
By general consent the agenda was approved as amended. 
 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS – none  
 

ADOPTED 
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January 21, 2016 
4. COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING 
 
4.1 Question and Answer Session 
 
Bylaw No. 128 (Rezoning at Cotton Bay, Gambier Island) 
 
Richard Beard, West Vancouver, inquired as to when the rock wall was built. 
 
Planner Brzozowski indicated it was built around 2008. There was an error made; 
the rock wall was placed at what the applicant believed was the natural boundary 
of the sea. 
 
Trustee Rogers explained there was an old timber retaining wall in place for 
decades. In the process related to a subdivision application, approval was 
granted for a community dock. A variance was granted for the rock wall within the 
setback to the sea. It subsequently became apparent that part of the rock wall 
juts into the Marine General (W1) zone, a zone that does not allow rock walls as 
a permitted structure. 
 
Applicant Jim Green remarked that the jutting out was an error on the company’s 
part. About 85% of the frontage is where it is supposed to be but, when the rock 
wall was stacked, two feet were deemed to be on the wrong side of the natural 
boundary of the sea.  The applicant agreed it would be simpler to rezone for the 
right to have a bit of wall on the water side rather than reconstruction and its 
impacts on the land.  
 
Hardy Goetsch, Gambier Island, inquired as to how many people are served by 
the dock. 
 
Planner Brzozowski explained the shared dock will service an existing 
subdivision, where there will be a creation of fo

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