Galiano LTC Regular Meeting Agenda Addendum

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GALIANO ISLAND 
LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE  
BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA 
TO COMMENCE AT 1:00 PM, MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 
AT THE SOUTH COMMUNITY HALL 
141 STURDIES BAY ROAD, GALIANO ISLAND, B.C 
 
LATE ITEMS/ADDITIONS 
 
 
8.1 J. Patterson submission dated November 2011 re: Accessory Building 
Entitlements in the Gulf Islands (attached) 
 
11.3.1  LTC Expense Report (attached) 

November 2011 
 
ACCESSORY BUILDING ENTITLEMENTS IN THE GULF ISLANDS 
 
by Jeffrey Patterson 
 
Assuming final passage of the OCP Bylaw by the Local Trust Committee on November 
14, 2011, Galiano Island now possesses a revised Official Community Plan (OCP).  
While the Local Trust Committee was unable to deliver on significant reform of land 
uses in forestry lots owing primarily to the very real possibility that the priority of 
local regulation would fall asunder the lack of regulation or just non-regulation under 
the Provincial Managed Forest Lands (PMFL) Act, the Local Trust Committee will 
continue to seek an exemption from Section 21 of the PMFL Act, as well as to pursue 
other opportunities and more limited land use reform on forestry lots. 
 
The OCP establishes the broad development pattern for Galiano Island for at least the 
next decade.  But what does this mean for what Galiano residents can do on their own 
lots?  Can they raise chickens? pigs?  Can they develop a painting studio? How big?  
These issues are governed by Galiano’s Land Use Bylaw (LUB).  The LUB coincides more 
or less with most residents’ experience with local planning.   
 
I’ve often wondered what detailed land use regulations exist on other islands under 
the general Islands Trust mandate.  The following review is a brief attempt to do this. 
One of the next major initiatives on Galiano Island will hopefully be a new bylaw 
regulating land use in conformity with the revised OCP.  The current Land Use Bylaw 
dates from 1999 and was adopted four years after the last OCP in 1995.  It reviews the 
LUB on eight Gulf Islands, six in the Capital Regional District in which Galiano Island is 
located and one each in the Nanaimo and Comox-Strathcona Regional Districts. 
 
Galiano Island and BC are currently in the midst of a municipal election campaign in 
which local trustees will be elected.  The following is not intended to in any way be 
part of current partisan discussions that are a part of any election competition.  I 
should also caution that the following review of Land Use Bylaws also generalizes.  
There are many nuances, and I have by no means made any attempts to encompass 
these. 
 
Eight Gulf Islands 
    Population    Area (ha) Density (ha/cap) 
Gabriola       4,050  5,256       1.30 
Galiano                                   1,258  5,810      4.62 
Hornby        1,074  2,990       2.78        
Mayne        1,112  2,334       2.10 
Pender North        1,996  2,709       1.36 
Pender South           236     911       3.86 
Saturna          359  3,422       9.53 
Salt Spring Island          9,780

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