Gabriola LTC Regular Meeting Agenda

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GBLTC – Late Items, Additions to Agenda – July 17, 2014 
 
 
 
 
 
GABRIOLA ISLAND  
LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE 
AGENDA
 
 
 
REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING  
OF THE GABRIOLA ISLAND LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE 
held at 10:15 AM on Thursday, July 17, 2014 at the Women’s Institute, 
476 South Road, Gabriola Island, BC 
 
 
LATE ITEMS, ADDITIONS 
 
 
AMENDMENTS/ADDITIONS 
TO ITEMS: 
 
14. LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE PROJECTS 
14.2 Housekeeping Bylaw Amendments 
 14.2.1 Memorandum dated July 15, 2014 – attached 
 
 
 
 
   

 
Memorandum 
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Memorandum Islands Trust Page 1 of 1 
 
Date July 15, 2014 File Number 6500-20 Housekeeping 
Bylaw Amendments 
To Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee 
 
From Courtney Simpson 
Regional Planning Manager 
Northern Office 
  
Re Housekeeping Bylaw Amendments 
 
 
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide a status update on the housekeeping bylaw amendments 
project.  
 
The LTC received a preliminary report on a project to make a number of minor “housekeeping” bylaw 
amendments to the Official Community Plan (OCP) and Land Use Bylaw (LUB).  This project is second on the 
Top Priorities list after the Gabriola Planning Area OCP Review, but the Local Trust Committee (LTC) has 
directed that its priority is after the climate change implementation sub-topic of the OCP review.  
 
Staff has been in discussion with the Mapping Department about updating the old mylar maps for the OCP 
land use designation map and development permit area (DPA) map. Updating old mylar (non-digital) maps is 
time consuming and cumbersome, and we are looking to convert to digital version for all of our maps when 
possible. We have determined that changing the development permit area map to digital is not advisable due 
to the current DP-6 Escarpment Areas mapping. This mapping is from a 1990 provincial soil survey, and was 
transcribed by hand onto the mylars from relatively low resolution mapping. At the time this was the state of the 
art for steep slope mapping but was never meant to be digitized due to its relatively low resolution. Staff 
recommends not converting the old mylar DPA map to digital until such time as the new steep slopes mapping 
from 2012, or a revision thereof, is used to amend DP-6. Although this is not currently on the work program, a 
review of DP-6 is recommended by staff at some point in the future for a number of reasons, including the 
ability to map the DPA with a high degree of accuracy on a digital map.  
 
The other OCP amendments on the housekeeping list are minor. As such, staff recommends this project is 
limited to only a bylaw to amend the LUB.  
 
Attached is the table of housekeeping amendments previously presented, with the comments from the LTC at 
the March meeting recorded.  Staff contin

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