North Pender LTC Public Hearing Record

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North Pender Island Local Trust Committee  
Public Hearing Record 
June 18, 2015  Page 1 of 2 
 
  
 
North Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
Record of a Public Hearing 
Proposed Bylaw No. 198 
 
Date: 
 
Location: 
Thursday, June 18, 2015 
 
Pender Island Community Hall 
4418 Bedwell Harbour Road, North Pender Island, BC 
 
Members Present: George Grams, Chair 
Dianne Barber, Local Trustee 
Derek Masselink, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present: Justine Starke, Island Planner 
Miles Drew, Bylaw Enforcement Manager 
Zorah Staar, Recorder 
  
Members of the 
Public and Media 
Present: 
Twenty-eight (28) members of the public 
 
Chair Grams called the Public Hearing to order at 10:41 am, as part of a regular Local Trust 
Committee Meeting of the same date.  The purpose of the Public Hearing was to receive 
community input regarding Proposed Bylaw No. 198 (cited as “North Pender Island Land Use 
Bylaw 103, 1996, Amendment No. 04, 2014”).  This Public Hearing immediately followed a 
Community Information Meeting on the same bylaw. 
 
Chair Grams noted that the local newspaper had inserted the wrong notice for the second 
required publication of the Notice of Public Hearing.  Therefore, a Public Hearing would still 
occur today, but a second Public Hearing would have to occur at the July 30 Local Trust 
Committee Meeting, and additional comments could be received until then. 
 
Island Planner Starke confirmed that Proposed Bylaw No. 198 was a bylaw to rezone the water 
zone around Wallace Point, to allow an oversized dock that was 83.6 m2.  The Notice of the 
Public Hearing had been circulated to neighbours, other government agencies, and First 
Nations as required. Agency and First Nations’ notification resulted with no comments, one set 
of questions, and no objections. 
 
Chair Grams read out the procedures and rules for Public Hearings, pursuant to the Local 
Government Act, and invited members of the public to comment about Proposed Bylaw No. 198. 
 
Eleanor Brownlee spoke on behalf of the Pender Islands Conservancy Association, as follows: 
- PICA had sponsored various sensitive shoreline, forage fish and eelgrass-related events; 
- Docks did have negative ecosystem impacts, and larger docks had larger impacts; 
- This large dock was not a community dock, and it set a precedent for oversized docks; 
- PICA requested that the Local Trust Committee think long and hard about the 
environmental impacts in this case. 
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North Pender Island Local Trust Committee  
Public Hearing Record 
June 18, 2015  Page 2 of 2 
 
  
 
Jim Burrows, 5931 Pirates Road, said that there was a bigger principle at stake here, which 
was the time and effort this community had spent to create a

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