Lasqueti LTC Special Meeting Agenda

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Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee
Special Meeting Agenda
 
 
Date:March 14, 2015
Time:11:30 am
Location:Lasqueti Island Community Hall
Main Road, Lasqueti Island, BC
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1.CALL TO ORDER11:30 AM - 11:35 AM
2.APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND INTRODUCTIONS
3.COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION11:35 AM - 2:25 PM
RIPARIAN AREAS REGULATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION (RAR)
3.1Correspondence
3.1.1Letter dated February 15, 2015 from
Doug Hopwood
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3.2Presentation by Marnie Eggen, Planner 2
3.3Questions and Answers Session
4.UPCOMING MEETINGS
Next Regular Meeting Scheduled for Thursday, April 9,
2015 at 11:00 am at the Lasqueti Arts Centre, Main Road,
Lasqueti Island, BC
5.ADJOURNMENT2:25 PM - 3:00 PM
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Susan Morrison and Tim Peterson 
Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee 
By email 
February 15, 2015 
 
Dear Susan and Tim, 
 
Re: Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee Draft Amendments Bylaw # 90 
Thank you for taking the time to hear my concerns about the proposed riparian area bylaw (Bylaw 
#90) at the LTC meeting on February 5. It was clear from the Town Hall discussion that there are many 
concerns in the community about draft Bylaw #90. Many of these concerns are due to the obligations 
that the Provincial government has placed on local governments through the Fish Protection Act and the 
Riparian Areas Regulation (RAR), and there is little the LTC can do to allay them.   
It appears that in the long run, the Lasqueti LTC may have little choice but to adopt a bylaw to be 
RAR-compliant, no matter how unreasonable, disproportionate and ill-matched the measures required 
under RAR may be for conditions on Lasqueti Island.  However, I believe there are some steps the 
Lasqueti LTC could take to make Bylaw #90 less onerous to the Lasqueti community without 
compromising the level of environmental stewardship and protection it would provide. 
Watershed Overview Surveys by Madrone Environmental Services 
Madrone Environmental Services were hired to complete overview surveys of selected streams on 
Lasqueti that were thought by the Ministry of Forest Lands and Natural Resources Operations (MFLNRO) 
to be possible candidates to provide fish habitat and therefore be classed as “streams” under RAR. As I 
understand it, the purpose of this phase of the process was to narrow down the area of land on Lasqueti 
that would fall under the 30-metre wide setbacks and screening section of Bylaw #90, by eliminating any 
streams that were found not to fall under the RAR definition of a stream. For example, streams with a 
permanent barrier to fish at tidewater and/or lack of sufficient water flow to support fish can be 
eliminated from RAR.  
Madrone seem to have the interpreted their task as being to definitively class each stream they 
surveyed as either having fish habitat (RAR-applicable) or lacking fish habitat (non-RAR-applicable), yet it 
is clear from reading Madrone’s reports that a third possibility exists. There are many streams about 
which it remains unknown whether or not

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