Salt Spring Island OCP Bylaw No. 434 - General Infrastructure and Servicing Objectives

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 71 Otober 2020 Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 434 – Volume 1 (Consolidated)

PART C - INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICING OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES

C.1 GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICING OBJECTIVES

C.1.1 To accommodate a sufficient level of infrastructure that does not exceed the normal needs of the rural island community anticipated by this Plan.

C.1.2 To encourage responsible agencies to develop infrastructure that will sustain the community's natural and economic resources, reduce public costs and maximize efficiency.

C.1.3 To promote a coordinated approach to land use and servicing on Salt Spring Island.

C.1.4 To support strategies that cause the servicing needs of new development to be largely borne by the proponent, rather than by the community at large.

C.1.5 To encourage and support collaboration among agencies responsible for infrastructure services in integrated resource management and strategic planning to support the land uses anticipated by this Plan.

C.2 TRANSPORTATION SERVICING OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES

C.2.1 General Transportation

C.2.1.1 OBJECTIVES

C.2.1.1.1 To plan land use in a way that encourages those forms of transportation that consume the fewest resources and least land; to encourage settlement patterns that make walking, bicycling and public transit become viable, convenient and natural alternatives to automotive transportation.

C.2.1.1.2 To encourage responsible agencies to reduce the environmental and social impacts of transportation facilities and the land area or water surface occupied by them.

C.2.1.1.3 To work cooperatively with other levels of government and stakeholder groups to influence the location and function of land, water and air transportation facilities so that they support the community's land use, servicing and social objectives.

C.2.1.1.4 To carefully consider the impacts of additional traffic and increased traffic flow when development choices are being made.

C.2.1.1.5 To support transportation systems that are designed to the highest standards, and that accommodate all members of the community.

C.2.2 Land Transportation

C.2.2.1 OBJECTIVES

C.2.2.1.1 To encourage responsible agencies to create and maintain land transportation networks, consisting of both roads and off-road trails that serve a broad range of transportation, social, environmental and aesthetic purposes.

C.2.2.1.2 To preserve the scenic rural character of existing island roads. C.2.2.1.3 To support efforts to reduce the impacts of new and upgraded roads on the natural environment, resource lands and on the island's character.