North Pender LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

Extracted text (beginning)

North Pender Island 
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
March 4, 2015 ADOPTED Page 1 of 8 
 
  
 
North Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date: 
Location: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 (9:45 am) 
Royal Canadian Legion 
1344 MacKinnon Road 
 
Members Present George Grams, Chair 
Dianne Barber, Local Trustee 
Derek Masselink, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present Justine Starke, Island Planner 
Zorah Staar, Recorder 
  
Media and Others 
Present: 
There were twenty-six (26) members of the public present 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Chair Grams called the meeting to order at 9:48 am.  He acknowledged that the meeting 
was being held in traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations. 
 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
Planner Starke noted that item 10.1 (application NP-DVP-2014.4 – Heigh) was being 
withdrawn from the agenda at the Applicant’s request, but could be considered in future. 
 
By general consent the Local Trust committee adopted the agenda, as amended. 
 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS 
Gordon Hansen asked that the Work Program Land Use Bylaw Amendments include 
increasing the allowed square footage of guest cottages, which were larger elsewhere. 
 
Planner Starke said that the Local Trust Committee could choose to include this within 
their top priority of Housing. 
 
Don Corbett said that the Islands Trust bureaucracy and property tax assessment 
should be reduced, because fewer services were provided than education or fire 
prevention. 
 
Michael Sketch said that the Hooson Road Bible Camp application for an accessory 
building involved agricultural land, should have a Community Information Meeting before 
detailed Staff Reports, and should involve dual Islands Trust jurisdiction because the 
Camp pre-dated the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). 
 
Carmen Oleskevich said that there was a meeting of community members at the Bible 
Camp yesterday.  The Local Trust Committee and planner should consider the bigger 
picture (including the large number of buildings already on this ALR property), and have 
a Community Information Meeting before proceeding further. 
A
A
D
D
O
O
P
P
T
T
E
E
D
D
 
 

 
North Pender Island 
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
March 4, 2015 ADOPTED Page 2 of 8 
 
  
 
Dale Henning said that the Local Trust Committee should not defer consideration of 
application NP-RZ-2012.1 (Burdett), because this application had already gone on for 
years, garbage needed to be collected on Pender, the Medicine Beach collection could 
be shut down, and this would really affect local residents and businesses. 
 
Chair Grams explained that application NP-RZ-2012.1 would not be considered any 
faster than could be competently done by the Local Trust Committee.  The application 
was controversial and not simple, and he was a new Chair being asked to have a greater 
decision-making role than usual, because Trustee Masselink had to recuse himself. 
 
Candis Zell said that the Burdett property was not suitable because: solid waste zonin

First 3,000 characters. Open the original for the whole document.