Galiano Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, July 26, 2022

[0:00:46] Voice 7: okay

[0:01:00] Voice 5: um we're going to call this special meeting of the trust committee to order it's a 1 30 on

[0:01:13] Voice 5: july the 26th and uh sorry 12 on july the 26th let's take my mask off while i'm speaking

[0:01:23] Voice 5: um and i want to acknowledge this is a special meeting to deal with one particular issue of the

[0:01:33] Voice 5: local trust committee we also have later today a community information meeting starting at one

[0:01:41] Voice 5: o'clock and with a broadcast at two o'clock if anybody wants to wish with a presentation on the

[0:01:47] Voice 5: various items on the water project but before we start uh i'd like to take a moment to acknowledge

[0:01:55] Voice 5: uh that we're meeting in the traditional territories of the post-salish peoples and

[0:01:59] Voice 5: it's particularly it's always a good reminder when given what's going on in canada right now

[0:02:05] Voice 5: the uh the papal apology and how that's playing out across the country uh related to the

[0:02:11] Voice 5: residential schools and we're reminded of course that this area was uh in no no way immune from

[0:02:18] Voice 5: those those horrendous tragedies there was it was very activism schools in this area and we have

[0:02:25] Voice 5: uh that's always been reminded for us to remember the history uh in relation to this and also i'm

[0:02:31] Voice 5: reminded of the work being done in galliano with the um uh the waters we waters they get the right

[0:02:38] Voice 5: waters we call home uh project on this island uh it's delving into it so uh that was acknowledgement

[0:02:45] Voice 5: and we're grateful to be able to live and work here um this meeting is being broadcast uh live

[0:02:52] Voice 5: stream um and also recorded will be available to the uh to the um on the website within a matter

[0:03:03] Voice 5: of days uh if you go to the meeting uh page for this meeting eventually it will show up there

[0:03:10] Voice 5: uh we have a a restricted agenda it's um the special meeting agenda simply deals with um

[0:03:18] Voice 5: staff report uh we took advantage of the fact that i was going to be on the island in any case

[0:03:23] Voice 5: to hold this meeting related to the uh good dahlia affordable living initiative society

[0:03:34] Voice 5: I'll also introduce Planner Brad Smith, there are some other staff that are around working but they'll be here for the later project, the discussion related to the other issues that are coming on related to the water sustainability project on Galleon Island.

[0:03:52] Voice 5: lot um so for the moment uh the reason you're only seeing uh trustee wolverton who's here with me

[0:03:58] Voice 5: uh is because on the galley project uh trustee rockefeller is recused from that project

[0:04:04] Voice 5: and so it's trustee wolverton and i make up the local trust committee dealing with the

[0:04:11] Voice 5: the galley for the living initiative society project um and so we're just here to receive

[0:04:20] Voice 5: receive a staff report and we have an agenda that was put before us um uh which is only

[0:04:25] Voice 5: having one business item uh trustee wolverton is there anything you wish to add

[0:04:31] Voice 5: you

[0:04:31] Voice 3: know just to say that trustee rockefeller will be joining the water presentation at one o'clock

[0:04:37] Voice 3: right

[0:04:38] Voice 5: so with that we'll take the agenda approved as presented and there is only the one business

[0:04:44] Voice 5: this item and i'm going to turn it over to planner smith to discuss the um uh the staff report which

[0:04:54] Voice 5: can be found uh on the website and um uh over to you class thank

[0:05:01] Voice 7: you rogers so it's not before

[0:05:03] Voice 7: being presented today as a follow-up to work progressing on the affordable housing project

[0:05:09] Voice 7: that has been planning for your September 6th community information meeting and your September 27th public hearing.

[0:05:19] Voice 7: Prior to that, staff recommended that the local trust community receive some of the outstanding documents

[0:05:26] Voice 7: that were still being worked on, and so that's something we're going to be doing today.

[0:05:31] Voice 7: So in the staff report and attachments, we were looking forward to the housing agreements,

[0:05:37] Voice 7: The housing agreement has undergone legal review, both by Babs Trust Legal Council and

[0:05:42] Voice 7: the Advocates Legal Council, and it is now agreed on, so unless the Local Trust Committee

[0:05:50] Voice 7: has any further changes.

[0:05:54] Voice 5: Yeah, I'm actually going to stop you, and I'm actually going to ask Stapp to stop, because

[0:05:59] Voice 5: Pat's trying to take minutes, and if there's a rustling of the paper in the background,

[0:06:03] Voice 5: she won't be able to hear what's going on.

[0:06:05] Voice 5: i know

[0:06:06] Voice 5: we had a lot of problems during the public hearing because she's not here in person so can i

[0:06:11] Voice 5: ask you to be proud and so we're finished stop putting your i'm sorry um thanks very much um

[0:06:21] Voice 5: and go

[0:06:22] Voice 7: ahead sir so the housing agreement being presented in the staff report is uh in the staff's

[0:06:28] Voice 7: view uh more or less the final draft because that's the right structure that's agreed upon

[0:06:32] Voice 7: by the local trust committee and unless the local trust committee has any significant concerns or

[0:06:40] Voice 7: any other further changes staff will be bringing that forward to the community commission and

[0:06:47] Voice 7: barring any unforeseen changes from that the public hearing and presenting it after the public

[0:06:54] Voice 7: hearing for potential consideration of the first second degree because it is in the history of the

[0:06:59] Voice 7: final requires accepting the housing agreement covenants or the application has broken up the

[0:07:09] Voice 7: covenant language into two separate covenants one are permanent terms a covenant that would

[0:07:17] Voice 7: carry with the the in perpetuity with the life of the project the second is what they mean

[0:07:23] Voice 7: as temporary returns and those are returns that are more related to construction pre and post

[0:07:30] related construction requires and the applicant can seek to discharge that covenant from the title

[0:07:37] once construction

[0:07:38] Voice 7: is completed with that there's

[0:07:42] Voice 1: still some work going

[0:07:43] Voice 7: back and forth with the

[0:07:44] Voice 7: applicants it's here there's still some back and forth with the applicant to fine-tune the

[0:07:49] Voice 7: covenant but from staff's perspective all the major items that have been discussed and considered

[0:07:56] Voice 7: by the local trust today are included in that covenant and i think there just needs some

[0:08:02] additional work with the applicant to

[0:08:08] Voice 7: finalize some of the more technical aspects of those

[0:08:13] Voice 7: covenants and that work is ongoing and the plan will be to bring that back to the public hearing

[0:08:25] Voice 7: right with the cia august here with all of this coming up but uh

[0:08:34] Voice 7: accept those documents and that was technically worked out and presented to you the third piece

[0:08:47] Voice 7: of work has been the outstanding septic report so the original septic report recommended one spot

[0:08:52] Voice 7: for one of the dispersal fields and ecological assessment by Mr. Erickson and that dispersal field

[0:09:01] Voice 7: will not be considered due to some ecological concerns. So the executive professional has done further work

[0:09:08] Voice 7: and has identified a different area for the dispersal field that is acceptable to the professional

[0:09:14] Voice 7: and so that is presented to you as well. One thing that isn't included in here that it

[0:09:21] Voice 7: should be is that the applicants has also received their water lessons approval so i just forwarded

[0:09:28] that to both of you and so obviously that's a big

[0:09:33] Voice 7: that's really all i have to present

[0:09:46] Voice 7: okay

[0:09:46] Voice 5: um just to be clear for anybody watching and uh here the plan is to have a

[0:09:55] Voice 5: a cim on on september the 6th is that right is that today that's tuesday that's

[0:10:03] Voice 3: the day of our

[0:10:04] Voice 3: ltc meeting correct

[0:10:05] Voice 5: the day after later yeah and

[0:10:07] Voice 5: then to have the plan would then be to have a

[0:10:10] Voice 5: public hearing on september the 27th it's a special tuesday meeting it's also fine

[0:10:22] Voice 7: So it would be a special meeting for the public hearing portion, but that's

[0:10:26] Voice 3: the LTC that we

[0:10:27] Voice 3: moved from October to Oh, I

[0:10:30] Voice 4: see that the trustees

[0:10:34] Voice 7: could have a discussion with the right time

[0:10:37] Voice 7: on those days to time period of the regular meeting agenda or you could see I have a public

[0:10:52] Voice 7: public hearings uh better just to focus on the 27th public hearing but for the cim you may want

[0:11:01] Voice 7: to consider a meeting meeting as there does seem to be quite a bit piling up on the september 6th

[0:11:08] Voice 7: agenda with the potential for your community awards you'll also have a public hearing in the

[0:11:14] Voice 7: cam on the district block project you have a number of pieces of correspondence that are on

[0:11:18] Voice 7: another there's also a deferral of the discussion around the advance of dl86 that would be brought

[0:11:28] Voice 7: forward um so potentially a temporary use permit for mr walkers but i'm not sure that's going to

[0:11:40] Voice 7: be okay

[0:11:42] Voice 5: so let's um let's do this in some early fashion because we would like to talk about the

[0:11:48] Voice 5: bit the documents you sent us and we could talk about the schedule of the various items and

[0:11:54] Voice 5: whether any of them wish to go and i think i don't know if there's anything else trustee wolverton

[0:11:58] Voice 5: that you'd like to bring up but perhaps we could start with the actual documents themselves and

[0:12:03] Voice 5: i think you had a couple of questions um

[0:12:06] Voice 3: so in the shall we jump into the housing agreement sure

[0:12:12] Voice 3: okay um so planner smith on page eight under permitted housing operator it looks like there's

[0:12:20] Voice 3: been a uh a typo in there okay um then um i noticed on in 2.1 subsection b neither the

[0:12:35] Voice 3: lands nor any building thereon may be subdivided without prior approval of the ltc such approval

[0:12:42] Voice 3: shall not be unreasonably withheld and i i recognize that that's probably a standard for

[0:12:50] Voice 3: some covenants but i also note that in the cim um the original cim with galley that

[0:12:58] Voice 3: they the presenters also said galleon proposes not to subdivide the property so i would prefer

[0:13:05] Voice 3: if that were removed

[0:13:06] Voice 7: i know you're not involved in the givers application so what uh the lawyer

[0:13:13] Voice 7: lawyer. So this is essentially the same template that was the

[0:13:18] Voice 7: proposal. But the lawyer that reviewed the first one is away.

[0:13:25] Voice 7: So a new lawyer reviewed this one. And in fact, that was struck

[0:13:29] Voice 7: from the years. So

[0:13:37] Voice 7: and

[0:13:40] Voice 3: I was also going to bring up the release as well. But I

[0:13:43] Voice 3: I wanted to, under 2.2, minimum construction requirements,

[0:13:49] Voice 3: it says all the rental housing units will be designed and constructed

[0:13:53] Voice 3: to the same standard in terms of layout, skill, and materials.

[0:13:57] Voice 3: And I just wonder about the same layout.

[0:14:01] Voice 3: You know, that seemed to be kind of an odd comment,

[0:14:09] Voice 3: just that, you know, they're obviously not going to be the same layout

[0:14:14] Voice 3: because they're they're different sized units and so on so i i wasn't i thought it just seemed a

[0:14:19] Voice 3: little odd those were my only comments other than the uh release 3.6 um 2

[0:14:34] Voice 7: .2 it's a bit of

[0:14:37] Voice 7: a matter of semantics but if you want some it

[0:14:40] Voice 3: just it just struck me as sort of odd but

[0:14:42] Voice 3: me

[0:14:43] Voice 5: given that they're not the same layout no

[0:14:45] Voice 3: they're not the same layout i

[0:14:47] Voice 4: think it's the

[0:14:48] Voice 4: standard

[0:14:49] Voice 3: yeah in terms of layout skill and materials but that's fine as long as

[0:14:57] Voice 3: and sorry i did have um 3.24 and 3.26 and at the end it speaks to the parties

[0:15:06] Voice 3: but the parties are not defined in either the initial um you know the initial uh

[0:15:19] Voice 3: opening of the document or in the definitions and I just thought that parties should probably

[0:15:26] Voice 3: probably be defined which

[0:15:30] Voice 7: section sorry it

[0:15:32] Voice 3: makes reference to say in 3.24 further assurances

[0:15:37] Voice 3: the party shall execute and do all blah blah wherever it says the parties I don't think we've

[0:15:43] Voice 3: actually define the parties usually usually a document would say uh the agreement is between

[0:15:54] Voice 3: galley and the local trust committee here hereafter referred to as the parties

[0:15:59] Voice 3: 3.4

[0:16:00] Voice 7: speaks to a third party sorry

[0:16:05] Voice 3: 3.24

[0:16:06] Voice 7: no 3

[0:16:13] Voice 7: .24 sorry there

[0:16:15] Voice 6: is no 3

[0:16:15] Voice 7: .2 3.24

[0:16:17] Voice 7: Oh, you mean 24?

[0:16:19] Voice 7: Yeah, sorry, 3.24.

[0:16:22] Voice 7: I think it's typically assumed that the parties are the parties to the agreement.

[0:16:27] Voice 7: Right.

[0:16:28] Voice 3: So those

[0:16:28] Voice 7: would be signatories.

[0:16:32] Voice 3: Yeah. And I'm just used to reading documents that say that hereafter referred to as the parties or that the parties would be defined.

[0:16:42] Voice 3: But if that's not a big deal, it's fine.

[0:16:46] Voice 3: I

[0:16:47] Voice 7: think we could, like both of those changes you're raising, if you have suggested that we could make those changes, in my view, it would be understood

[0:16:59] Voice 2: of the parties, when it speaks

[0:17:01] Voice 7: to the parties, that that means the signatories to me.

[0:17:06] Voice 5: so the only the only part of the agreement that struck me was besides the one that i was raised by

[0:17:12] Voice 5: i trusted over to one in fact the the section related to um release and new york fall we

[0:17:19] Voice 5: in the other application we had both the indemnity and the release and i think it was determined that

[0:17:25] Voice 5: the release section wasn't necessary and i believe it was taken out if you need motions for us to

[0:17:30] Voice 5: to do this or you can just simply ask that you work on removing 3.6 and amending 2.1b okay

[0:17:45] Voice 7: you want to circle back to 2.2

[0:17:50] Voice 7: clarifying language to no that's fine it's fine okay

[0:17:53] Voice 5: so before we do that i'm just going to turn

[0:17:59] Voice 5: I just want to make sure if you have any comments you want to make our questions you're here as the

[0:18:04] Voice 5: applicants you're welcome to make those comments in the statement before we move on to the actual

[0:18:08] Voice 5: comment itself you'll have the opportunity to work with the

[0:18:11] Voice 6: planner yeah no I the only comment is

[0:18:14] Voice 6: the planner has also commented that for galley we basically adapted the Gingrich's housing

[0:18:24] Voice 6: correct and uh change the album in terms of the excuse me the key aspects of affordability and

[0:18:33] Voice 6: how that's bookended and defined that's it is identical and uh in in terms of the specific

[0:18:42] Voice 6: points here i don't think we would have any trouble in the testing for clarity but we'll

[0:18:47] Voice 6: have to talk

[0:18:48] Voice 5: to the plan thanks uh and and pat just for your information the the um says i'm

[0:18:54] Voice 5: talking speaking to the reporter right now to survey she's not here she's uh watching on zoom

[0:19:00] Voice 5: uh the applicant is uh represented by mr michael hubble h-o-d-b-e-l um just so we get your name

[0:19:08] Voice 5: in there thanks very much hope that helps pat uh well then i think what we can do is maybe move

[0:19:13] Voice 5: that the local trust committee requests

[0:19:19] Voice 5: that section 2.1 B of the housing agreement

[0:19:23] Voice 5: be amended by removing the words,

[0:19:28] Voice 5: quote, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld,

[0:19:33] Voice 5: end of quote, and by removing section 3.6.

[0:19:46] Voice 3: Yeah, I would prefer if it's entirely removed or

[0:19:49] Voice 5: you want the whole set of the whole subsection

[0:19:51] Voice 5: rule.

[0:19:51] Voice 5: So then we'll change the motion to read, we would request that the housing be amended

[0:19:58] Voice 5: by removing section 2.1 B and section 3.6.

[0:20:04] Voice 5: from the housing thank you sorry did you get if you're bad i can see you give me a thumbs up

[0:20:12] Voice 5: so it's

[0:20:14] Voice 1: to remove section 2.1 b and section 3.6 correct okay and could you i'm sorry could you

[0:20:24] Voice 1: spell the applicant's name for me again sure it's uh

[0:20:28] Voice 5: h-o-e-b-e-l the last name first name of michael

[0:20:32] Voice 1: okay thank you no i'll second that okay

[0:20:37] Voice 5: that's been moved and seconded so is there any further

[0:20:39] Voice 5: discussion call the vote that passes unanimously so let's move on to the um to the two covenants

[0:20:46] Voice 5: and just my question is as i understand it the first covenant is effectively for the is it

[0:20:51] Voice 5: proposed for the period of time of any construction and then the second covenant is in place for

[0:20:58] Voice 5: or for perpetuity basis is that is that my guess if

[0:21:03] Voice 4: i read that correctly

[0:21:04] Voice 4: okay

[0:21:05] Voice 5: questions from uh

[0:21:07] Voice 5: trustee wolverine related to either of the covenants so my only question

[0:21:11] Voice 5: is is and um

[0:21:13] Voice 5: it's it's one of those evolutionary things as i move from various islands and housing agreements

[0:21:19] Voice 5: from place to place you get some ideas in some places and some ideas in other places

[0:21:24] Voice 5: Because just yesterday, we had a, on Main Island, we had an agreement or some language

[0:21:33] Voice 5: related to their proposed covenant related to monitoring and ongoing maintenance covenants

[0:21:43] Voice 5: related to the subject system.

[0:21:44] Voice 5: system. And it was done in a way that I think was to provide assurances to neighbors and

[0:21:55] Voice 5: also to the local trust committee that the subject system would not only be installed

[0:22:00] Voice 5: to a certain level, but also be paid at a certain level. And we understand that there

[0:22:05] Voice 5: of course are um uh there are other sewerage uh act requirements that are out there as well

[0:22:13] Voice 5: um but they but they're not part of a public process so i wanted i wanted to propose i

[0:22:19] Voice 5: provided the language to um uh to the planner and to jane to trustee wolverton that uh that

[0:22:26] Voice 5: the planner explored with the applicant inserting that language in the covenant as well i thought

[0:22:32] Voice 5: the rest of the covenant is fine and it's great but i would ask i would want to suggest that they

[0:22:37] Voice 5: explore inserting that language into the the ongoing covenant not the construction

[0:22:42] Voice 5: at least that's the way i would read it anyway but wherever it's appropriate

[0:22:48] Voice 5: and i said that language yes

[0:22:50] Voice 3: and i would be in agreement with adding that yeah

[0:22:54] Voice 5: and i don't know

[0:22:55] Voice 5: the african hasn't seen the language that doesn't necessarily know what it means and what it entails

[0:23:00] Voice 5: and I think they should have an aptitude to keep a review

[0:23:02] Voice 5: and see whether it causes any concerns.

[0:23:05] Voice 5: It was, it was agreed to by the local housing society.

[0:23:08] Voice 5: So I don't think it causes a great deal.

[0:23:11] Voice 5: It wouldn't be what it would do anyway.

[0:23:13] Voice 5: So I would just simply move that the LTC requests to stop

[0:23:19] Voice 5: to explore the insertion of the septic field language,

[0:23:25] Voice 5: and I'll put that in quotes

[0:23:26] Voice 5: quotes from the Maine Island Housing Society,

[0:23:31] Voice 5: section 219 proposed covenant into the 219

[0:23:36] Voice 7: covenant here.

[0:23:41] Voice 7: I'm

[0:23:42] Voice 5: sure he hasn't, I'm sure he hasn't.

[0:23:44] Voice 5: It only came to us yesterday on Maine.

[0:23:46] Voice 5: I mean, we had that a few days before,

[0:23:48] Voice 5: but it only was discussed for the first time

[0:23:50] Voice 5: about this and it seems to have no concerns with anybody.

[0:23:54] Voice 5: let

[0:23:55] Voice 3: me

[0:23:56] Voice 5: just make sure pat got that pat did you get that

[0:24:01] Voice 1: to instruct staff to explore

[0:24:04] Voice 1: request thank you request staff to explore inclusion of septic system

[0:24:12] Voice 1: language similar to main island there's something main

[0:24:18] Voice 5: island housing society

[0:24:20] Voice 5: housing society section

[0:24:21] Voice 1: 219

[0:24:22] Voice 5: covenant housing

[0:24:24] Voice 1: society section 219 covenant okay okay

[0:24:31] Voice 5: and that's been moved in second any discussion all in favor that passes unanimous i have nothing

[0:24:37] Voice 5: further other than um because i thought the rest of it covered off all the issues we had did you

[0:24:42] Voice 5: have anything further related to this no okay so i have nothing further they seem like very

[0:24:47] Voice 5: very intensive and uh good good comments so with that uh unless there's something else from you

[0:24:55] Voice 5: right well we're good we'll uh then we'll we'll stop business is done and so we're done this

[0:25:05] Voice 5: particular meeting is there any other issues you just device then we'll adjourn this particular

[0:25:10] Voice 5: meeting for anybody watching online we're going into a sort of an open house format

[0:25:16] Voice 5: at here at the hall from one to two um and then at two o'clock we'll be back on with uh our live

[0:25:24] Voice 5: stream related to the uh the water sustainability project and the presentation from the planner and

[0:25:31] Voice 5: the uh the water specialists freshwater specialists from um islands trust uh so if you if

[0:25:39] Voice 5: you're on the island and

[0:25:40] Voice 5: want to come down and join us for the open house please feel free to

[0:25:43] Voice 5: come down um everything's relatively uh close on the island so uh otherwise uh we'll see you back

[0:25:50] Voice 5: on the live stream at two o'clock thanks very much we'll adjourn this week um

[0:25:55] Voice 3: and just to let

[0:25:56] Voice 3: you know there there is tea and coffee and water and there's some cookies so please

[0:26:01] Voice 3: cookies

[0:26:01] Voice 5: thanks we'll

[0:26:04] Voice 3: see you at

[0:26:05] Voice 5: uh two o'clock we'll do yes

[0:26:07] Voice 5: thanks a lot you're

[0:26:08] Voice 3: welcome okay

[0:26:13] Voice 3: uh so they're going to have a they're going to finish setting up their maps

[0:26:16] Voice 3: and it'll be an open house you can

Galiano Local Trust Committee 
Community Information Meeting 
July 26, 2022  ADOPTED Page 1 of 4 
 
 
Galiano Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Community Information Meeting 
 
Date:  
Location:  
July 26, 2022 
Galiano South Community Hall 
141 Sturdies Bay Road, Galiano Island, BC 
 
Members Present: Dan Rogers, Chair 
 Jane Wolverton, Chair 
 Tahirih Rockafella, Local Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Robert Kojima, Regional Planning Manager 
 Narissa Chadwick, Island Planner 
William Shuba, Senior Freshwater Specialist 
 
Pat Todd, Recorder 
 
There were approximately ten (10) members of the public attending. 
1. Open House – 1pm-2pm 
2. Presentation – Groundwater Sustainability Implementation Project  
Chair Rogers called the meeting to order at 1:05 pm.  Chair Rogers acknowledged that the 
meeting was being held in traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations.  Chair Rogers 
explained that meeting was being held in person and live streamed via Zoom to increase 
accessibility. 
 Planner Chadwick commented: 
 this meeting is an opportunity to provide the community with information related to 
options for the proposed watershed protection development permit boundaries and 
provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions; 
 Development Permit Areas (DPA) are a tool that can be used to protect the absorption and 
retention of freshwater by protecting vegetation coverage in critical areas; and 
 3 options based on lot boundaries have been identified. 
 
William Shuba detailed: 
 presentation focus is on groundwater resources; 
 understanding the science has been a long process, working with government agencies, 
water districts etc. to develop proposed policies; 
 groundwater is a unique amenity that sustains ecosystems, community:  need plan for 
future:  comes from rain, snow and fog (meteoric water); and 
 the focus of the presentation is recharge. 
A D O P T E D 

 
Galiano Local Trust Committee 
Community Information Meeting 
July 26, 2022  ADOPTED Page 2 of 4 
 
Aquifer Conceptualization Project 
 definition of aquifer:  subterranean geological unity that can store and transmit water in 
useful quantities for domestic, industrial and ecological use; 
 rain, snow and fog filtered to ground by forests/plants; and 
 starting to identify factures: important for users and new development. 
 
Groundwater Recharge Mapping 
 groundwater regions are water management units:  largely based on water sheds; 
 rains – high elevations – flows down to lower areas:  more rain in north end of island; 
 ecosystem role in groundwater recharge potential considered; 
 plants funnel water to ground; 
 Islands Trust website:  Freshwater Project section for more information; 
 Low discharge equals high recharge; 
 well managed, productive and healthy forests provide better water collection/retention, 
healthy soils; 
 Groundwater Solutions Report on IT website; 
 reference to www.groundwatervisible.org – stories and photos; and 
 changing climate and increased societal stresses – need to plan for future. 
 
Planner Chadwick spoke to: 
 Development Permit Areas (DPA) designed  to protect groundwater and recharge; 
 reviewed groundwater recharge to identify DPA options; 
 number of exemptions proposed e.g., hydrologist report, repair and maintenance, removal 
of dangerous trees; 
 public comment encouraged today through to September 9; 
 bylaw amendment:  map to identify boundaries, bylaw will include exemptions;  
 next step is for the Local Trust Committee (LTC) to decide on groundwater recharge DPA 
boundaries; 
 2, 5, 10 and 20 hectare options; 
 methodology used to identify boundaries is on website; 
 cautionary Principle:  protect more rather than less – climate is changing – science is going 
to change; 
 recharge areas defined by topography and geology; 
 proposed DPA bylaw in keeping with IT object/Policy Statement acknowledgement of First 
Nations knowledge and culture; and 
 all reports and documents are on IT website. 
 
Questions:   
Public member:  highly beneficial to identify recharge areas – was climate change a factor in 
considerations? 
 
William Shuba spoke to the education factor of projects/maps; importance of land stewardship; 
DPA relates to climate change: 
 demand management component; 

 
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 regions likely to hold as defined by topology and supported by ecosystems; 
 healthy forests increase recharge:  demand impact; and 
 DPA first step. 
 
Planner Chadwick added science is there – know it will change and need to protect more. 
 
Public member:  question regarding interconnectivity of island and weather stations. 
 
William Shuba identified that the island is all one type of geological unit and groundwater flows 
along spaces between stratas.   There are unique dynamics of geological layers. There are 
weather stations throughout the province with data looked at year to year and averaged over 20 
years. 
 
Public member:  stated recharge on west side of island/discharge on east while flow is north to 
south and questioned significance of isolation of recharge and discharge areas. 
 
William Shuba spoke to discharge areas and wet areas.  Critical recharge areas are typically 
down axis of island – resting on bedding planes – flows down or springs up according to 
hydrostatic pressures. 
 
Public member:  related sensitivity of east side:  preferential recharge areas – appreciation of 
information given.  Questioned value of focusing on areas with shortages or saline intrusion 
first. 
 
William Shuba stated populated regions will be reviewed:  high density areas have most 
recharge:  number of areas protected as Parks. 
 
Planner Chadwick added there are a number of parts o the project and areas with shortages 
have bee identified and will be looked at further in the future. 
 
Public member: spoke to importance of forest management.  Comments – great to identify 
recharge and protect however should be cautious regulating prior to being aware of demand on 
particular area.  Why rules that don’t fit situation? 
 
Planner Chadwick referred again to the Cautionary Principle – look forward and plan 
 
Public member:  Comments – look at all areas:  areas may become inhabitable:  importance of 
an objective analysis.  Asked for explanation as to how exemptions would be applied. 
 
Planner Chadwick explained there would be a full analysis of the area and proposed site.  
Reports from professionals would be considered.  
 
 All materials presented are available on the IT – Galiano webpage.   
 
 

 
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3. Workshop – 3pm-4pm 
4. ADJOURNMENT 
By general consent the Community Information meeting was adjourned at 3:40 pm. 
 
 
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Dan Rogers, Chair 
Certified Correct: 
 
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Pat Todd, Recorder