Mayne Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 27, 2026

[0:00:00] Voice 8: Let's get this party started.

[0:00:05] Voice 8: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for attending virtually and in public and to our regular LTT meeting of the Maine Local Trust Committee.

[0:00:17] Voice 8: My name is Toby Elliott. I'm the chair of the Maine Local Trust Committee. I'm elected on Gabriel Island in the First Nation Territory.

[0:00:24] Voice 8: I'd like to begin by acknowledging, as always, that we are meeting on the unceded ancestral

[0:00:29] Voice 8: territories of the Batonage peoples and Tsimshatlanskut'in Coast Salish peoples who've been stewarding

[0:00:36] Voice 8: these islands and waters since time immemorial, and we want to always acknowledge and recognize

[0:00:44] Voice 8: their role and relationship to these islands today as we make that decision.

[0:00:49] Voice 8: Thank you all for being here.

[0:00:51] Voice 8: I'm joined by your two local trustees, and together we make up your local trust committee.

[0:01:05] Voice 8: We're also joined by staff today, our Island Planner, Ruth Belcher, and Nerissa Chadwick,

[0:01:12] Voice 8: who's not going to talk about that right now, our outgoing Island Planner.

[0:01:18] Voice 8: and new to us today is a regional planning manager Mary Storzer if you want to say a few words

[0:01:26] Voice 8: I'm

[0:01:26] Voice 7: happy to be here yeah thanks for we're happy to meet you welcome you to the Island Trust and

[0:01:33] Voice 7: you've got Robert to do this big bootstrap though because he knows everything any time

[0:01:39] Voice 7: to move yeah so well

[0:01:41] Voice 8: let me know you know so you can pass that so so uh staff are here to advise

[0:01:48] Voice 8: and help inform our decision making today um we're also joined by uh lisa mallard our minute

[0:01:54] Voice 8: meeting facilitator a minute taker lisa and some stuff in the background so um and just a few more

[0:02:02] Voice 8: words uh before we get into the meat and the substance of our meeting we have sort of some new

[0:02:10] Voice 8: protocols. There's just been a rise, not here on Main Island, but some comments are being made out

[0:02:18] Voice 8: of other issues that are arising. And so we sort of have this new standard. And I just need to

[0:02:26] Voice 8: reiterate that this is a workplace, staff have a right to a safe and respectful work environment.

[0:02:35] Voice 8: um and but we do value public engagement we want you to be here and tell us your opinions and your

[0:02:42] Voice 8: views we ask that you um state your comments respectfully um and you'll maintain an inclusive

[0:02:49] Voice 8: space that is culturally respectful for all people so um if there's anything that veers from

[0:02:55] Voice 8: the standards of conduct that um islands trust is set we'll remind you of those agreements and

[0:03:00] Voice 8: just come back so that we can make sure this is a safe and welcoming place for everyone um i may

[0:03:07] Voice 8: get back to that when we get into our public comment period but for now we will approve our

[0:03:11] Voice 8: agenda is there any changes or amendments to the agenda okay the agenda is presented

[0:03:21] Voice 8: and so now we get into our public participation period so this is your time as the public to

[0:03:28] Voice 8: To address the local trust committee, let us know your views on anything that's in the agenda today, primarily, if you have a perspective on application.

[0:03:40] Voice 8: And we'd like to share that with us. Now is the time.

[0:03:43] Voice 8: If you are an applicant, you will have time when we get to your application to speak to your application.

[0:03:49] Voice 8: So, we're just hearing from members of the public about other people's applications or

[0:03:55] Voice 8: any other matter in the jurisdiction of local trust committee.

[0:04:00] Voice 8: Please focus on issues, not individuals, and we just expect courteous language, of course,

[0:04:07] Voice 8: so no clapping or bullying, just a few bits.

[0:04:10] Voice 8: I know it's not an issue here, but believe me, there's been some meetings lately where

[0:04:14] Voice 8: it's like, no, we're not going to clap for the ones we want to hear about.

[0:04:17] Voice 8: So, does anybody want to address the local trust committee?

[0:04:21] Voice 6: Sure.

[0:04:22] Voice 8: And please state your name.

[0:04:24] Voice 8: Michael Ophelia.

[0:04:25] Voice 6: Okay.

[0:04:26] Voice 6: I live here.

[0:04:27] Voice 6: I just had a question, or I have some comments.

[0:04:31] Voice 6: The TUP that's being proposed again, new TUP, a temporary use permit for the house that

[0:04:37] Voice 6: lives, that is beside me.

[0:04:39] Voice 6: So, it's already run through its renewal period and now they're applying for a new one.

[0:04:45] Voice 6: it's my understanding it's temporary so I'd like to know what temporary

[0:04:52] Voice 6: and what's the precedence with this if there was one set in this if it's approved

[0:04:58] Voice 6: is it not setting a precedent because these are made to be island so

[0:05:04] Voice 8: um that we wanted to

[0:05:07] Voice 8: get first to explain how it works yeah

[0:05:10] Voice 5: so um temporary use permit is a three or maximum of

[0:05:14] Voice 5: three years permits that can be renewed for an additional three years there's nothing within the

[0:05:21] Voice 5: temporary use permit legislation that prevents it from being from that use being continued for

[0:05:28] Voice 5: an additional three-year period so one

[0:05:30] Voice 6: more period or how many periods can it be it's considered

[0:05:34] Voice 6: temporary right

[0:05:36] Voice 5: they would it just essentially the temporary is that it's um not uh in compliance

[0:05:42] Voice 5: lines with the zoning therefore they need to go through the separate process but essentially yes

[0:05:48] Voice 5: they could keep coming back to the local trust committee and they would have to keep doing that

[0:05:52] Voice 5: legislative process to meet the local government act requirements so yeah every three years they

[0:06:01] Voice 5: would have to come back there as a renewal or a new permit but yes they could continue that

[0:06:06] Voice 5: Is that not

[0:06:07] Voice 6: circumventing the whole, to have it properly zoned?

[0:06:12] Voice 6: It's a commercial enterprise beside me.

[0:06:14] Voice 6: It's not temporary if they just keep doing it.

[0:06:19] Voice 7: Well, it's in the Local Government Act provision, and we are a local government,

[0:06:24] Voice 7: so there is a provision there for someone who is doing an operation to keep reapplying.

[0:06:30] Voice 7: It doesn't necessarily mean that every application will be approved,

[0:06:33] Voice 7: approved. But whereas the zoning is once it's approved, it's a done deal. So this is a way

[0:06:39] Voice 7: to either practice a use for the future or to have a use that doesn't conform, but it's

[0:06:44] Voice 7: given because in some circumstances, depending where we are, the community may be perfectly

[0:06:49] Voice 7: happy with continuing to reissue the temporary use permit for every three years for an unknown

[0:06:55] Voice 7: amount of time. But it

[0:06:57] Voice 7: does bring it back every three years to this committee to make

[0:07:00] Voice 7: a new decision and this committee might change so it's not it's not fixed in stone that every

[0:07:07] Voice 7: three years will be automatic but it is there in the local government as a tool that we can use

[0:07:12] Voice 6: but it does also list that it is while you're rezoning or in the effect that rezoning is

[0:07:18] Voice 6: possible and while they're waiting they can temporarily use it but it

[0:07:22] Voice 7: also says you don't

[0:07:24] Voice 7: would have to receive all these requests.

[0:07:28] Voice 8: We can take this to staff to explain more about the process.

[0:07:33] Voice 8: Do you have any views on this specific application?

[0:07:37] Voice 8: Now is the time to share those.

[0:07:39] Voice 6: Yeah, I'm opposed to it.

[0:07:40] Voice 6: I did submit a letter, and I see the pictures and comments.

[0:07:44] Voice 6: Again, I thought that this wasn't going to be renewed.

[0:07:47] Voice 6: Because in effect, it's renewal.

[0:07:49] Voice 6: Exact same thing.

[0:07:51] Voice 6: It's not a new application.

[0:07:53] Voice 6: It's the exact same thing.

[0:07:56] Voice 6: So when we approved it and didn't want it initially, we thought that it was a period

[0:08:01] Voice 6: of time, three years, a period of renewal, and that was done, because in effect, they're

[0:08:06] Voice 6: going to have to end it unless they've got a new one.

[0:08:09] Voice 6: All those things are supposed to cease according to the bylaws.

[0:08:12] Voice 8: Do you have a comment?

[0:08:14] Trustee Maude: Yes.

[0:08:16] Trustee Maude: Two things with TEP, we've used them for the certification, it just gives us a lot of control.

[0:08:24] Trustee Maude: um because if the option b kind of would be just to resolve the property which would be permanent

[0:08:30] where the company is permanent there's a whole bunch of stipulations there and and violent

[0:08:35] enforcement can go in immediately and

[0:08:38] Trustee Maude: take remedial action so if you as a neighbor are

[0:08:41] Trustee Maude: upset with something that's going on that you get in touch with all enforcement they can act

[0:08:45] immediately um if the zoning is permanent there's there's there's less that can be done and if the

[0:08:53] zoning is there for a short-term vacation it's also impossible to stop and i'll point out like

[0:08:58] like for island trust we had an office in the indians i believe it was 28 years running under

[0:09:05] Trustee Maude: temporary use permits it was with bc hydro they were the landlord in

[0:09:10] Voice 6: a residential neighborhood

[0:09:11] Voice 6: right which is like two

[0:09:13] Voice 8: residents to other topics um what would be most helpful is if you share

[0:09:18] Voice 8: your reasons for opposition we will absolutely take this into account as we consider the

[0:09:22] Voice 8: application but debating okay one of the questions

[0:09:25] Voice 6: sure when you say that you've got control how are

[0:09:28] Voice 6: you observing that control monitoring what's going on is it based on hours and what i have to do and

[0:09:34] Voice 6: take pictures and keep notes and days and times and who monitors if you've approved it but i want

[0:09:42] Voice 7: to say bylaw office would be monitoring if they'd had complaints specifically unfortunately if

[0:09:48] Voice 7: If they've had complaints in the last three years, then that's the mechanism that we would judge whether the holder of the temporary use permit was honoring the permit as it's laid out, now it's phased, etc.

[0:10:02] Voice 6: So it's on us

[0:10:03] Voice 7: then to act every time.

[0:10:04] Voice 8: All bylaw investigations are conducted on the basis of complaints, unless there's direction from the local trust committee by policy to do proactive enforcement.

[0:10:16] Voice 8: and so proactive enforcement in certain circumstances where there's a proliferation

[0:10:22] Voice 8: of illegal short-term vacation rentals we do have bylaw officers in my case who are

[0:10:28] Voice 8: going through the listings and comparing them is there an actual do they have the ability to

[0:10:34] Voice 8: to use the property that way but in this case if there's an active temporary use permit

[0:10:42] Voice 8: it but then you have concerns that it's not meeting the conditions you could definitely

[0:10:47] Voice 8: raise that through a complaint but that's the normal process okay

[0:10:51] Voice 6: one last question how many

[0:10:52] Voice 6: are are on the island right now other than the two that are within a block from my house

[0:10:57] Voice 6: and what is the precedent then for those to keep getting renewed and to keep the application

[0:11:03] Voice 6: will this be the longest one and the first one

[0:11:06] Voice 8: this is the process the process is applying

[0:11:09] Voice 8: flying hearing the things from the public does it conform is it um is it having an adverse impact

[0:11:16] Voice 8: on the neighborhood and then yes or no and then the use is brought back in three years we reconsider

[0:11:22] Voice 8: and can issue the permit or not so this is the process to evaluate the impacts in the neighborhood

[0:11:28] Voice 8: and again

[0:11:28] Voice 6: this is the first one that's gone this far and they're going for a second one then

[0:11:32] Voice 6: what happened there's

[0:11:34] Voice 7: been two the original permit had been issued and then

[0:11:38] Voice 7: there was a renewal that

[0:11:39] Voice 7: was issued when the renewal was issued i believe three years ago that we had had no complaints

[0:11:46] Voice 7: now we have a whole new opening we have to reapply for a new tup now we're hearing

[0:11:52] Voice 7: every received quite late in the day uh comments from from neighbors so this is but those were not

[0:11:59] Voice 7: there certainly when we renewed it three years ago that's my recollection that there was no issues

[0:12:04] Voice 7: issues raised

[0:12:04] Voice 2: but

[0:12:05] Voice 7: we're definitely late got a few emails by quite late thank you

[0:12:10] Voice 8: yeah so

[0:12:12] Voice 8: thank you

[0:12:13] Voice 8: for your good questions

[0:12:15] Voice 2: um

[0:12:16] Voice 8: any other questions concerns perspectives you want to raise

[0:12:23] Voice 8: now is the time and yeah i will note we did get several letters about this and the other

[0:12:34] Voice 8: applications. So

[0:12:46] Voice 8: with that we'll close the public participation period. Thank you very much for

[0:12:51] Voice 8: coming and sharing your views. We will take all this into account as we consider the applications

[0:13:13] Voice 8: Okay, so we've got adoption of minutes. February 23rd. Are there any issues?

[0:13:21] Voice 8: That was an online meeting.

[0:13:26] Voice 8: everything good

[0:13:27] Voice 6: excellent minutes thank you

[0:13:29] Voice 8: thank you

[0:13:30] Voice 8: taken by general consent for the minutes of February

[0:13:34] Voice 8: 23rd 2026 be adopted

[0:13:37] Voice 8: as presented

[0:13:38] Voice 8: and we've got

[0:13:40] Voice 8: no

[0:13:42] Voice 8: RWMs or advisory

[0:13:43] Voice 8: so we'll go to the

[0:13:45] Voice 8: election list page 9

[0:13:47] Voice 8: and updates from the

[0:13:49] Voice 8: planner and those questions for staff

[0:13:52] Voice 8: are

[0:14:06] Voice 8: all finished

[0:14:07] Voice 8: That's right. This list is going to disappear next month. There's nothing at all.

[0:14:14] Voice 8: Wow. That'll be the most efficient island. Go ahead.

[0:14:19] Voice 8: Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[0:14:21] Voice 8: All right. We have no delegations and correspondence. Correspondence that is received related to an application is posted on the website.

[0:14:32] Voice 8: And so we've checked those. Anything that came after the agenda was published was just forwarded to trustees.

[0:14:41] Voice 8: So thank you for that.

[0:14:44] Voice 8: And so we'll go to the items 11.1 and 11.2 for referral responses.

[0:14:55] Voice 8: Anything on these that North

[0:14:58] Voice 7: Tender Island Local Trust Committee's interests are not

[0:15:02] Voice 7: impacted by the North Tender Island Local Trust Committee interests are unaffected by

[0:15:19] Voice 7: draft by-law 236 and 237.

[0:15:23] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:15:23] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:15:24] Voice 8: Seconder?

[0:15:25] Voice 8: Seconded by Trustee Vaughn.

[0:15:26] Voice 8: Any discussion?

[0:15:27] Voice 8: All those in favor?

[0:15:29] Voice 8: And that is carried.

[0:15:34] Voice 8: Next is on page 36.

[0:15:38] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:15:40] Voice 8: Okay.

[0:15:42] Voice 7: This is Dave, Sir Chairman.

[0:15:45] Voice 8: I'll

[0:15:45] Voice 7: move that the Manitoba Local Trust Committee recommend to the North Mander Island Local Trust

[0:15:49] Voice 7: committee that draft bylaw number 242 oh who is does not impact me does not affect the interests

[0:16:00] Voice 7: of the main island so they have a new impact on it so

[0:16:07] Voice 8: this is just 242. yes okay thank you

[0:16:13] Voice 8: Yeah, seconded by Trustee Mudd, all those in favour?

[0:16:17] Voice 8: And that is carried.

[0:16:18] Voice 7: It's just a legal report.

[0:16:20] Voice 8: Yeah.

[0:16:21] Voice 8: We

[0:16:21] Voice 7: don't want to mess up the committee.

[0:16:25] Voice 8: That's your outside budget too.

[0:16:27] Voice 8: Okay.

[0:16:29] Voice 8: From Galliano Island.

[0:16:30] Voice 8: Sure do.

[0:16:32] Trustee Maude: I'll move.

[0:16:33] Trustee Maude: I mean, I'll trust committee respond to the Galliano Local Trust Committee.

[0:16:36] Trustee Maude: The interests are unaffected by draft bylaw number 300.

[0:16:40] Voice 7: Seconded.

[0:16:40] Voice 7: Seconded.

[0:16:41] Voice 7: it's

[0:16:41] Voice 8: so dangerous okay all those in favor and that is carried thank you

[0:16:51] Voice 8: okay so now we turn to uh the main island applications we've got 11.4 um rezoning 2025

[0:17:01] Voice 8: zero three oh five is he very strange over to you bruce

[0:17:07] Voice 5: yeah so this staff report is presented to the mainland local trust committee regarding bylaw

[0:17:14] Voice 5: number 200 which is the land use bylaw amendment for the dc ferry's village bay property requiring

[0:17:22] Voice 5: a rezoning for the new shoreline stabilization structures to manage and prevent further erosion

[0:17:28] Voice 5: of the Shoreline Bank since the January 26th LTC meeting

[0:17:33] Voice 5: where there was a community information meeting,

[0:17:37] Voice 5: the First Nation and agency referrals have been kept closed

[0:17:42] Voice 5: and all the responses have been included

[0:17:44] Voice 5: within the staff report.

[0:17:46] Voice 5: There's been no objections received

[0:17:48] Voice 5: through the referrals process.

[0:17:52] Voice 5: Staff recommended that the Main Island Local Trust Committee

[0:17:55] Voice 5: not hold a public hearing at the January LTC meeting since the project was consistent with

[0:18:01] Voice 5: the official community plan and the notice to consider first reading of the draft bylaw was

[0:18:07] Voice 5: completed with the statutory requirements ahead of this meeting and there's been no responses to

[0:18:14] Voice 5: that notice first reading so yeah considering the proposal it's not in conflict with the official

[0:18:22] Voice 5: community plan nor is contrary to or at variance with the trust policy statement and there's been

[0:18:29] Voice 5: no concerns raised through the bylaw referral process um staff recommending that the main island

[0:18:35] Voice 5: local trust committee proceed with the recommendations for first second during the

[0:18:40] Voice 5: reading on page one of the staff report and in addition to um the term acknowledging that the

[0:18:48] the bylaws not

[0:18:50] Voice 5: contrary to or at variance with the trust policy statement and then forwarding

[0:18:56] Voice 5: the bylaw on to the executive committee for approval. Thanks.

[0:19:05] Voice 8: Questions or comments? I have one question just for general interest. The responses from

[0:19:14] Voice 8: from First Nations, basically a summary is that they defer to the First Nation whose

[0:19:21] Voice 8: traditional territory fronts this area. Do we know which nation?

[0:19:26] Voice 8: Charlotte.

[0:19:27] Voice 8: Charlotte, okay.

[0:19:28] Voice 8: We did not respond.

[0:19:29] Voice 8: And they did not respond?

[0:19:30] Voice 8: Okay. Thank you. That's just from my own... ISEC out, defers comments or two to the First

[0:19:37] Voice 8: Nation. Thank you. Great. Anybody wants to proceed? Okay.

[0:19:46] Trustee Maude: I'll take it.

[0:19:47] Voice 8: I'll let you start.

[0:19:48] Voice 8: You too.

[0:19:48] Voice 8: I'll be the last to talk.

[0:19:49] Trustee Maude: I'll move it.

[0:19:50] Trustee Maude: May not allow the trust committee to file on number 200.

[0:19:52] Trustee Maude: Say this.

[0:19:53] Trustee Maude: May not allow you to just file on number 4-6-2008, amendment number 2-2025.

[0:19:57] Trustee Maude: You read it first time.

[0:19:59] Voice 8: Seconded that.

[0:20:00] Voice 8: Seconded by Trustee Dodds.

[0:20:01] Voice 8: Any discussion?

[0:20:03] Voice 8: All those in favor?

[0:20:05] Voice 8: And that is carried.

[0:20:07] Voice 2: Keep going?

[0:20:08] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:20:08] Voice 7: You can do the first three.

[0:20:09] Voice 7: Then you'll get tired.

[0:20:12] Voice 7: I hope she used it

[0:20:14] Voice 2: a little bit less.

[0:20:14] Trustee Maude: I'll move it.

[0:20:15] Trustee Maude: May not allow the trust committee to file on number 2-2025.

[0:20:16] Trustee Maude: 200, cited as Main Island Land Use Bylaw No. 148, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025, be read for a second time.

[0:20:24] Trustee Maude: Okay.

[0:20:25] Voice 8: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? That is carried.

[0:20:30] Voice 8: And

[0:20:30] Trustee Maude: I will move to Main Island Local Trust to be filed under 200, cited as Main Island Land Use

[0:20:35] Trustee Maude: Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025, be read for a third time. All seconded. Seconded.

[0:20:42] Voice 8: any discussion on there

[0:20:44] Voice 8: that

[0:20:45] Voice 7: is carried and i'll move that the main island local press committee

[0:20:48] Voice 7: has reviewed the island trust policy statement directives only checklists and determined that

[0:20:53] Voice 7: bylaw number 200 cited as main island land use bylaw number 146 2008 amendment number two

[0:21:01] Voice 7: no amendment number yeah number two 2025 is not contrary to or at variance with the island's

[0:21:07] Voice 7: trust policy statement

[0:21:09] Voice 8: seconder uh any discussion all those in favor that is carried move that the

[0:21:16] Voice 7: main island local trust committee bylaw number 200 cited as main island land use bylaw number 146

[0:21:22] Voice 7: 2008 amendment number two 2025 be forwarded to the secretary of the island's trust for approval

[0:21:29] Voice 7: We'll move up that executive committee, which two are here.

[0:21:34] Voice 8: Moved and seconded.

[0:21:36] Voice 8: Any discussion?

[0:21:38] Voice 8: And all those in favour?

[0:21:39] Voice 8: That is carried.

[0:21:42] Voice 7: You do get by-laws that they won't approve.

[0:21:45] Voice 8: We have to then put on our different hats and evaluate it.

[0:21:49] Voice 8: So it does happen.

[0:21:50] Voice 8: It helps that we have a different tour.

[0:21:56] Voice 8: It doesn't change anything.

[0:21:58] Voice 8: thing all

[0:21:59] Voice 7: right they've done a lot of work to finally almost finish it yes short

[0:22:05] Voice 8: is all our

[0:22:05] Voice 7: okay

[0:22:06] Voice 8: so page 36 we are going to turn now to the new temporary use permit uh eltup 2026

[0:22:15] Voice 8: zero zero six zero that's marana i mean wonderful uh

[0:22:21] Voice 5: yes this is a new temporary use permit

[0:22:24] Voice 5: application for the use of a travel trailer recreational vehicle as a dwelling on the property

[0:22:29] Voice 5: of 574 Fern Hill Road. The proposal is submitted to the honest trust to the existing dwelling being

[0:22:38] Voice 5: used for multiple commercial business tenants operating on the property due to the commercial

[0:22:45] Voice 5: spaces on the island. The draft permit includes conditions consistent with section 2.9 of the

[0:22:52] Voice 5: visual community plan which is the section for temporary use permits um uh to limit the impacts

[0:22:59] Voice 5: of the use to neighboring properties um and we've made an addition uh based on amendments to the ocp

[0:23:08] Voice 5: that have not been approved yet in bylaw number 196 but um i've been read for a third time so

[0:23:19] So that includes an additional condition that would

[0:23:22] Voice 5: require a screening for the property,

[0:23:27] Voice 5: which is added in the documentation section, which the property owner has already identified

[0:23:32] Voice 5: as following the screening, but it wasn't a condition of the draft permit.

[0:23:36] Voice 5: So we just added that so clarity.

[0:23:40] Voice 5: And through circulation of the draft permit, there has been one response objecting to the

[0:23:46] Voice 5: proposed use due to concerns over the number of vehicles associated with the businesses on

[0:23:53] Voice 5: the property and the density of businesses on the property they have identified any concern

[0:24:02] Voice 5: regarding the total lot coverage staff has done a calculation of the total log coverage which

[0:24:08] Voice 5: appears to be consistent with the commercial one zoning and it's at 22.5 percent of the total

[0:24:15] Voice 5: lot area where the maximum is 25 percent and based on the floor area of all the commercial businesses

[0:24:24] Voice 5: as well as an estimation from the restaurant and the uh and the dwellings on the property

[0:24:31] Voice 5: the total number of parking spaces required in these places which appears consistent with

[0:24:38] Voice 5: of what is provided on the site.

[0:24:41] Voice 5: So based on all this, staff would

[0:24:45] Voice 5: recommend that the Maine Island Local Trust Committee amend

[0:24:49] Voice 5: temporary use permit PLC-P2026-0035,

[0:24:54] adding the condition on

[0:24:56] Voice 5: page one,

[0:24:57] Voice 5: and then approve the permit as amended.

[0:25:08] Voice 2: Yeah.

[0:25:10] Voice 8: Oh, yeah.

[0:25:10] Voice 8: Yeah.

[0:25:11] Voice 2: Well, hi.

[0:25:11] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:25:13] Voice 8: um do you wish to speak to your application

[0:25:16] Voice 1: just to go over the reasoning of how long as far as an application for a travel trailer

[0:25:26] Voice 1: for myself to live in for a few years uh so i bought the property uh as part of my retirement

[0:25:34] Voice 1: plan and so the bungalow would become my primary residence when i fully retire um

[0:25:42] Voice 1: I've sold all my other properties, this holding company has one property, you know,

[0:25:46] Voice 1: that's the football center, that's not part of the large commercial venture. So I had rented out that

[0:25:55] Voice 1: bungalow part to the people who are now operating the restaurant for seven years

[0:26:02] Voice 1: and then they closed out, moved away from the bungalow and I went in and did the necessary

[0:26:11] Voice 1: renovations and so on. I tried to rent it twice

[0:26:14] Voice 1: residentially. Both of them fell through. And then I was

[0:26:17] Voice 1: approached by one of my tenants who knew

[0:26:21] Voice 1: two of the businesses that are in there now that had been evicted

[0:26:26] Voice 1: twice over the last few years

[0:26:29] Voice 1: due to closing out of a commercial space on

[0:26:33] Voice 1: Main Island. So I took them in and agreed to

[0:26:37] Voice 1: rent them the bungalow and then the doctor and the massage therapist came for a year later

[0:26:45] Voice 1: for the reasons that they prefer to actually have space other than their homes to see clients

[0:26:51] Voice 1: so I've retired now and I'm looking at moving over here and it's just me getting out of the

[0:27:02] Voice 1: way of those businesses for the next

[0:27:04] Voice 1: three to six years um and until they possibly move on if there's

[0:27:09] Voice 1: more virtual space available elsewhere and then i'll eventually move into the envelope so that's

[0:27:15] Voice 1: that's sort of the whole background of that

[0:27:24] Voice 7: dave and i can confirm i mean the rental space is that the two other businesses had

[0:27:30] Voice 7: both of which they were put up and had to leave those premises for a variety of reasons.

[0:27:38] Voice 7: Addressing the concern about parking, the parking really, single-trailer parking is not really the issue.

[0:27:46] Voice 7: Parking at the Fern Hill Centre and the busy times when the restaurant, everybody's open,

[0:27:52] Voice 7: is simply the same issues we have in Miners Bay.

[0:27:55] Voice 7: parking no matter how many parking spaces we might want to vision for anywhere we're always

[0:28:01] Voice 7: going to have peak times and these could be problems but when i met with bruce he had some

[0:28:05] Voice 7: ideas to try and create a bit more off-street parking yeah so i think

[0:28:09] Voice 2: he

[0:28:10] Voice 7: otherwise is going

[0:28:10] Voice 7: to get trapped in this organization so i felt that he would do what he could to deal with the

[0:28:17] Voice 7: parking it's a it's a busy place on the day

[0:28:19] Voice 7: like it's crazy yeah so the idea was that um you could

[0:28:25] Voice 7: possibly get a bit more shouldering part of it is because highways has a

[0:28:30] Voice 7: minimum minimum size of all

[0:28:31] Voice 7: our roads and they don't do shoulders but if he gets permission he can widen that space out there

[0:28:37] Voice 7: but no matter what you do and even before the coffee wagon was there and before the trailer

[0:28:44] Voice 7: was there there was still an overflow parking between the um farm gate store next door especially

[0:28:50] Voice 7: on a saturday in the summer so so parking is definitely not something that's easy to solve

[0:28:59] Voice 8: um so i just want to clarify because we had a letter with some of these concerns um

[0:29:06] Voice 8: saying that we've neglected to draw on the accessory dwelling

[0:29:12] Voice 1: It didn't. I believe it was because of a PDF copy or copying from original to a PDF on

[0:29:22] Voice 1: the original drawing. The building show up. Yes, the building's back on the one that was

[0:29:31] Voice 1: was published. Okay. And posted as a bungalow from the shed

[0:29:37] Voice 1: district.

[0:29:38] Voice 8: Oh, that's it. So you can see the edge, it says

[0:29:41] Voice 8: storage shed, but it doesn't.

[0:29:45] Voice 8: From the coffee that went out to the neighbors. I see. Okay, so

[0:29:50] Voice 8: there was concern expressed that we hadn't detailed all the

[0:29:55] Voice 8: dwellings. And so this letter writer there is concerned that

[0:29:58] Voice 8: it's more than

[0:29:59] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:30:00] Voice 8: 100% lot coverage, but staff is satisfied that it meets the requirements.

[0:30:07] Voice 8: And this is, I'm still confused, is this like C1 is commercial zoning, and it was always

[0:30:15] Voice 8: C1, or was it re-zoned?

[0:30:18] Voice 8: Forever.

[0:30:18] Voice 7: Forever.

[0:30:19] Voice 7: Like 1970.

[0:30:23] Voice 8: I'm still a newbie here, not

[0:30:26] Voice 8: asking all the dumb questions.

[0:30:27] Voice 8: yeah um so

[0:30:29] Voice 7: it's always had that house which has been a very interesting years

[0:30:34] Voice 7: and you see if i've expanded it the uh the trade the coffee trailer there we go since we did that

[0:30:40] Voice 7: square footage that's permitted but everything has ruined a lot over the last couple of years

[0:30:45] Voice 7: and changed well

[0:30:46] Voice 8: i'm i'm definitely in support of mixed use appropriate commercial development

[0:30:53] Voice 8: that that meets the needs of the community so i see no issues with this unless the trustees are

[0:30:58] Voice 8: missing i'm

[0:31:02] Trustee Maude: comfortable with this i certainly acknowledge there's a parking issue

[0:31:06] Voice 2: yeah um

[0:31:07] Trustee Maude: but what we're looking at particularly with the trailer i don't think that's in any

[0:31:14] way shape or form going to be cumulative to the issue at hand it's um there is an issue there but

[0:31:23] The trailer's not going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back,

[0:31:25] Trustee Maude: and it's not taking

[0:31:29] anything away.

[0:31:31] Trustee Maude: It's basically not a usable space otherwise.

[0:31:35] Trustee Maude: So I'm comfortable approving this.

[0:31:38] Voice 7: Okay.

[0:31:38] Voice 7: Yes.

[0:31:39] Voice 7: It's tucked up by the edge there.

[0:31:42] Voice 7: So the back of the trees, it's not in your face.

[0:31:44] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:31:44] Voice 2: And

[0:31:45] Voice 7: there doesn't any name resistance in front of you.

[0:31:47] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:31:48] Voice 2: Okay.

[0:31:49] Voice 7: Okay, so I'll move that the main local trust committee amend temporary use permit PL TUP 2026.035 by adding the following condition, a construction of fence along the east and west sides of the recreational vehicle to effectively shield the digital impact of the recreational vehicle from neighboring properties and Montrose Road.

[0:32:14] Voice 8: Okay, moved. I think that's one.

[0:32:16] Voice 8: two separate one okay

[0:32:18] Voice 7: and that the local main island local trust committee approved issuance

[0:32:22] Voice 7: of a temporary use permit pl tup 2026 0 0 3 5 as amended for a period of three years

[0:32:31] Voice 7: okay so that's well

[0:32:33] Voice 8: we should we should just deal with the first motion

[0:32:36] Voice 8: Oh,

[0:32:37] Voice 5: I'd say so. They say 3-5, they should be 6-0.

[0:32:41] Voice 8: Oh, okay.

[0:32:42] Voice 8: 6-0.

[0:32:45] Voice 8: Okay. So, um...

[0:32:48] Voice 8: Oh, I see

[0:32:49] Voice 8: what you mean.

[0:32:50] Voice 8: So we're just going to separate, yeah.

[0:32:52] Voice 8: It

[0:32:52] Voice 2: should be 0

[0:32:53] Voice 8: -0-6-0?

[0:32:54] Voice 8: Yeah. So change the wording to 20-26-0-0-6-0.

[0:32:58] Voice 8: And then we'll just, after Montreux drove.

[0:33:00] Voice 8: Do I have a seconder? Second if I trust him not. Any discussion?

[0:33:12] Voice 7: I move that the Main Island Local Trust Committee approve Issues of Temporary Use Permit 2026-0060

[0:33:21] Voice 7: as amended for a period of three years.

[0:33:24] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:33:25] Voice 7: Moved.

[0:33:25] Voice 8: Seconded by Trustee Long.

[0:33:27] Voice 8: Any discussion?

[0:33:28] Voice 8: All those in favor?

[0:33:29] Voice 8: And that is carried.

[0:33:31] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:33:31] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:33:33] Voice 8: you've been going through this process yeah it's just did you ever have

[0:33:38] Voice 7: another comment no i was

[0:33:39] Voice 7: just a comment that said we also have these newer regulations about our use anyways that you have

[0:33:45] Voice 7: to have a temporary permit my question was if we hadn't changed that requirement would a trailer

[0:33:51] Voice 7: have been acceptable in there without tup

[0:33:53] Voice 8: because

[0:33:54] Voice 7: he's within the lot coverage but it's only allowed

[0:33:57] Voice 7: that one residence

[0:33:59] Voice 5: it's uh that regulation is only for residentially zoned law it doesn't apply

[0:34:04] Voice 5: to commercial zones also yeah

[0:34:09] Voice 8: try to trap the black with a tricky question

[0:34:19] Voice 8: Okay, so now we have our application 202060124, the Baker-Costello

[0:34:30] Voice 8: So, temporary use permit for the STBR.

[0:34:35] Voice 8: So, Connor, don't care if you want to introduce this one.

[0:34:39] Voice 8: Sure.

[0:34:39] Voice 8: Okay,

[0:34:40] Voice 5: so this is a new temporary use permit for a short-term vacation rental within an existing single-family dwelling,

[0:34:50] Voice 5: which previously received an initial permit in 2021 for two years.

[0:34:59] Voice 5: and then a renewal for three years in 2023.

[0:35:04] Voice 5: And the applicants wish to continue to operate their short-term vacation

[0:35:09] Voice 5: regular use under the same temporary use permit conditions

[0:35:12] Voice 5: as was previously permitted.

[0:35:15] Voice 5: And staff have confirmed with the applicants that there's been no changes

[0:35:19] Voice 5: to the proposed use and that the draft permit remains the same

[0:35:23] Voice 5: as the initial permit, which includes the operation for 60 days between the summer months

[0:35:33] Voice 5: and a maximum of 30 days for the remaining months of the year, and the maximum number

[0:35:39] Voice 5: of guests is eight.

[0:35:43] Voice 5: And through the circulation of the draft permit, we received one letter in support and four

[0:35:54] Voice 5: letters in opposition to the plan, which identified issues including having a campfire, it sounds

[0:36:04] Voice 5: like on the property uh the short-term vacation rent would use uh causing impacts within the

[0:36:12] Voice 5: community uh to neighbors regarding the number of guests and turnover of guests uh and then

[0:36:21] Voice 5: additionally there was a mention of competition for legally operating commercial accommodation

[0:36:27] Voice 5: foundation rentals and operators and shortage of housing staff concerned that the conditions

[0:36:41] Voice 5: of the permit provided are consistent with OCP guidelines and I'm sure that the use does

[0:36:49] Voice 5: not have an unreasonable impact on the area and in the event that it does, there is the

[0:36:55] Voice 5: ability to enforce compliance with the Temporary Use Permit. So staff would recommend that the

[0:37:02] Voice 5: main item of the Transplanting Permissions of Temporary Use Permit PLT-UP-2026-0124 for a period

[0:37:11] Voice 5: of three years. Thanks.

[0:37:13] Voice 8: Thank you, Deirdre. Lindsay, I hope I'm in here. Yes. Oh, hi. Hello.

[0:37:19] Voice 8: Hello. Well, thank you.

[0:37:20] Voice 4: Nice to see you. Thank you, nice to see you. Would you like to speak

[0:37:23] Voice 8: I'd

[0:37:24] Voice 4: be happy to. We, my partner and I, Dan, who's not here today, have owned the property now for

[0:37:30] Voice 4: just over five years. And we originally bought it from my in-laws, his parents who own the home for

[0:37:36] Voice 4: just over 20 years. And we're the third official owners of the property since it was first sold

[0:37:43] Voice 4: to settlers. So we are proud owners of this property. We spend a lot of time here with our

[0:37:49] Voice 4: very young family we have two kids who are five and nine and when we were first approved in 2021

[0:37:55] Voice 4: with the support of Marissa and the crew at that time um we had a really I think um appreciative

[0:38:03] Voice 4: um step into being able to have short-term rentals to make it financially feasible for our family

[0:38:10] Voice 4: um so that we could continue to have the home for ourselves but also for my in-laws for my

[0:38:15] Voice 4: my partner's brothers, who both spend substantial time at the property, and now my sibling as well,

[0:38:20] Voice 4: who also spends time at the home. I think a lot of the feedback that was shared in response

[0:38:27] Voice 4: was similar to what we heard the first time, the sense of housing and concerns about short-term

[0:38:33] Voice 4: rental and how they can be disruptive to neighborhoods. One of the things that we've

[0:38:38] Voice 4: appreciated in the temporary use permit that Councillor Maud spoke to at the beginning is the

[0:38:43] Voice 4: accountability aspect and that the original permit which is what we are requesting today again

[0:38:48] Voice 4: provides a lot of constraints and restriction and how we can can operate and support the intention

[0:38:54] Voice 4: of this permit is to help offset costs and not to be a huge revenue generator for our family as far

[0:39:00] Voice 4: as a business we have friends and family who spend time and beyond our siblings of course

[0:39:07] Voice 4: and we found that the allocated maximum numbers in each season the 60 days and the 30 days

[0:39:14] Voice 4: to be quite supportive for offsetting those costs and I think important because if we didn't have a

[0:39:21] Voice 4: requirement we definitely have the demand to rent way more than that so I think it is a thoughtful

[0:39:25] Voice 4: limit to maintain we are approved to have eight people at the home we generally personally have

[0:39:31] Voice 4: requirement for online request to be maximum of six and we have a discretionary personal

[0:39:36] Voice 4: consideration if there's like infants or other children but we really don't think the home is

[0:39:40] Voice 4: and the property is best suited for eight adults at any one time which typically means we have

[0:39:45] Voice 4: young families like ourselves, people who enjoy spending time on main island and a lot of repeated

[0:39:51] Voice 4: visitors that come year after year. Some of the other concerns that were brought up in

[0:39:56] Voice 4: the feedback included and it may be a sort of order Bruce to what you were sharing

[0:40:01] Voice 4: but concerns about a fire that was um to my memory was last year we arrived on main island on june

[0:40:08] Voice 4: 22nd 23rd last year and we checked the fire regulations to the main island website on the

[0:40:13] Voice 4: ferry over we had a fire as soon as we arrived and to our awareness the fire rules actually

[0:40:19] Voice 4: changed at noon that day and switched over to the fire band starting a bit earlier than years prior

[0:40:24] Voice 4: so when we spoke to the fire chief who did come after we spoke to our neighbors um we immediately

[0:40:30] Voice 4: put the fire out we were pulling it up kind of on our phones as he walked up

[0:40:33] Voice 8: um

[0:40:34] Voice 4: and we maintain a

[0:40:35] Voice 4: fire permit which i brought with me today if that's helpful um to reiterate we burn when we're

[0:40:40] Voice 4: on the property but no visitors including family or friends and any of the short-term renters

[0:40:45] Voice 4: no one is doing any burning inside or outside of the home we make it very explicitly clear that's

[0:40:50] Voice 4: not appropriate and also share resources for our well water our hoses fire resources emergency

[0:40:56] Voice 4: numbers and all of those things in case a fire is spotted. We may have fire blankets in the home,

[0:41:02] Voice 4: we have extinguishers, we have up-to-date smoke detectors that are connected to our wi-fi somehow

[0:41:06] Voice 4: and tell us if there's an alarm so we have a lot of precautions in place for managing fires and risk

[0:41:11] Voice 4: for as much as we can. One of the other concerns in the letter was about rodents potentially about

[0:41:17] Voice 4: rodents gathering around our woodshed. I brought some photos if I'm able to share I'd love to share

[0:41:22] Voice 4: with what that looks like um we maintain a rodent subscription which was new to me

[0:41:27] Voice 4: until owning property on main island i'm just going to grab these here um where we have a

[0:41:32] Voice 4: salt spring island company that comes over once a month to service traps um they're all catch

[0:41:37] Voice 4: and kill there's no poison we're very mindful of the local ecosystems as far as impacting those

[0:41:42] Voice 4: pieces which is i think the first i'll pass you might have to pass some jewelry um so the invoice

[0:41:49] Voice 4: is on the top um but you're welcome to see i have others if you wish the last time we had a rat in

[0:41:55] Voice 4: the trap was in january they come and service and we get a report every month um there's also photos

[0:42:01] Voice 4: in that stack of the property the day we bought it and the property on thursday when i came over

[0:42:05] Voice 4: for the weekend um we've done substantial cleanup to the property since owning it and i don't want

[0:42:10] Voice 4: to say anything uh about my in-laws making it to the property but it was in a really uh challenging

[0:42:15] Voice 4: state as far as the pruning and the upkeep and the rodents that were present on the property

[0:42:20] Voice 4: when we first took possession. There's also in that stack communications with one of our

[0:42:26] Voice 4: neighbours around concerns around management of the woodshed, which you can see my response in

[0:42:31] Voice 4: that screenshot. There's also one email from the same neighbour about a dog that was barking on

[0:42:36] Voice 4: the property and you can see the timestamps that it was resolved, responded to and addressed within

[0:42:41] Voice 4: than 30 minutes being informed uh that's the only uh those two are the only two pieces that we're

[0:42:47] Voice 4: aware of um in the last two years um we

[0:42:51] Voice 4: also appreciate that one of our neighbors on the

[0:42:52] Voice 4: other side of the property spoke very highly of the way we maintain the property which

[0:42:55] Voice 4: i'm grateful for in this setting um and i'm happy to answer any other questions or if i've missed

[0:43:01] Voice 4: anything in that pile i'm also happy to speak to as well so thank you and appreciating to be able

[0:43:06] Voice 4: able to be here in person today as well thank you much

[0:43:09] Voice 8: that's really helpful big right yes

[0:43:15] Voice 8: so jessie do you have questions any clarification that you want i

[0:43:21] Voice 7: don't have any questions i just

[0:43:23] Voice 7: felt that i got a whole lot of information really late in the day i mean

[0:43:27] Voice 7: i obviously got

[0:43:28] Voice 7: new information from you i always feel like we're sort of sitting here you know pulled both ways

[0:43:33] Voice 7: and that we're at that so they have to make a decision basically on the spot without like i

[0:43:38] Voice 7: I would have done a site visit if I had known.

[0:43:41] Voice 7: And so my preference would be to defer a decision

[0:43:44] Voice 7: until our next meeting, but that won't be

[0:43:46] Voice 7: until the end of June.

[0:43:48] Voice 7: That's my preference.

[0:43:49] Voice 7: Definitely would like to do a site visit.

[0:43:51] Voice 7: Did a site visit with Bruce.

[0:43:54] Voice 7: She has a huge, much better perspective.

[0:43:56] Voice 7: We know her both sides, and it is difficult.

[0:44:00] Voice 7: The first permit you got was only for two years to test it out,

[0:44:03] Voice 7: to see how it would go.

[0:44:05] Voice 7: We didn't have any concerns, complaints.

[0:44:06] Voice 7: lanes so it was renewed for the three years um so it is difficult because you live you know in a

[0:44:12] Voice 7: very like very close to your neighbors yes and

[0:44:15] Voice 7: so we're a bit sensitive to the fact that you're

[0:44:18] Voice 7: operating and it's huge impact on your neighbors the other side of the coin is that you could be

[0:44:24] Voice 7: just a vacationer using your own property with your own family and friends and head to a disaster

[0:44:29] Voice 7: next door as well and so which is why the terms and conditions are great and that as soon as there

[0:44:34] Voice 7: is a problem with the terms and conditions which i think if we were ever to do another

[0:44:39] Voice 7: this type of cup we make really clear to the neighbors that that we need to see a copy when

[0:44:45] Voice 7: there are concerns so that we know like for the last three years this has been going on and this

[0:44:51] Voice 7: is a response um to try and make it work for people um i also would like to say that we have

[0:44:57] Voice 7: a lot of non-permitted stvrs and so the fact that we actually have permits with rules and regulations

[0:45:02] Voice 7: I think the people have actually applied for that is really good and that I think we should encourage

[0:45:07] Voice 7: That to be happening rather than all the non-permitted or even the vacationers who are using friends and family's places and coffee

[0:45:15] Voice 7: That's a problem. I I have a difficulty with flat-out making a decision today and I prefer to defer

[0:45:21] Voice 7: Yeah, it's kind

[0:45:24] Trustee Maude: of concur because

[0:45:26] Trustee Maude: It seems this one's coming everything's been late

[0:45:29] because on the outset, when you read the staff report,

[0:45:32] there's been no violent complaints.

[0:45:34] There was really nothing within the staff report

[0:45:38] that raised any concerns.

[0:45:41] I think possibly part of that is to your credit

[0:45:43] because it seems that you've heard complaints

[0:45:45] and you've dealt with them,

[0:45:46] so they've never escalated to the point of being a violent complaint,

[0:45:50] which sort of takes a positive thing on my side.

[0:45:54] But as Trustee Dodd says,

[0:45:56] is that there's been so much information coming in the last couple of days.

[0:46:02] And so it was sort of,

[0:46:03] Trustee Maude: we sat, it wasn't on my radar as being an issue.

[0:46:07] Trustee Maude: Now it seems to be a little bit,

[0:46:09] Trustee Maude: that we maybe need to do a little bit deeper dive,

[0:46:12] you should say, a site visit,

[0:46:13] and a little bit more understanding of the neighborhood and such

[0:46:16] and what's going on.

[0:46:19] Because as I said, first of

[0:46:20] Trustee Maude: all, I read the staff report

[0:46:22] Trustee Maude: and there's nothing here that raises any concerns with me.

[0:46:27] Trustee Maude: and certainly on the conditions of the TUP are pretty extensive.

[0:46:33] So I think we just need to do sort of a deep dive

[0:46:36] Trustee Maude: and get sort of an idea of what's going on

[0:46:40] Trustee Maude: and what's appropriate and what's not appropriate.

[0:46:44] Trustee Maude: So

[0:46:45] Voice 7: I'll move that we defer.

[0:46:47] Voice 8: Can we just pause for a second?

[0:46:49] Voice 8: So I'd like to ask the applicant,

[0:46:53] Voice 8: what are the implications for you if this is deferred?

[0:46:57] Voice 8: well

[0:46:57] Voice 4: i'm mindful that the current uh tough expires at the end of may so there would be a month lapse

[0:47:02] Voice 4: in between um we as a family will be here at the end of june so i'm i would be happy to attend in

[0:47:09] Voice 4: person again and have further dialogue and to plan hopefully a site visit whether that week or

[0:47:13] Voice 4: certainly arranging time in may to connect with both um if you'd like to attend um but that's the

[0:47:20] Voice 4: piece i'm aware of is that we have a month lapse and i don't know offhand kind of what that means

[0:47:24] Voice 4: for for booking in pieces but that would be and i don't know the date of the june meeting i assume

[0:47:28] Voice 4: it's the end of june you just said should be the last monday last monday thank you

[0:47:34] Voice 4: i

[0:47:34] Voice 8: mean the other side of this as well is there isn't an abundance of legal short-term rentals

[0:47:40] Voice 8: right this is going to be a big summer for canadians traveling um and if um you know if

[0:47:48] Voice 8: there are impacts for the applicants i do want us to consider that as well because it's part of um

[0:47:54] Voice 8: you're being able to continue um keeping that property up too so um but i i'm so i'm not

[0:48:04] Voice 8: feeling that there's a bunch of last minute information is it just big um responses to

[0:48:10] Voice 8: site visit you know it

[0:48:12] Voice 2: makes a huge difference yeah i mean

[0:48:17] Voice 7: it makes basically the month of june

[0:48:19] Voice 7: would be would be without it being available

[0:48:21] Voice 2: but

[0:48:22] Voice 7: i you know certainly you know june june is

[0:48:26] Voice 7: my mom ran a b&b for a long time and june was always a really disappointing month

[0:48:32] Voice 7: that's i mean but i

[0:48:34] Voice 7: also you know and to reiterate what toby said also we have a responsibility

[0:48:40] Voice 8: to

[0:48:40] Voice 7: the province to people in the province and we know a few that's coming now i don't know what

[0:48:44] Voice 7: the dates are but we also have to be mindful of like trying to make these things work um and i

[0:48:52] Voice 7: think i think that's the important part too to you know not to flat out say as the other writers did

[0:48:57] Voice 7: we should never have stbr sets that's just not realistic and already the province is looking

[0:49:02] Voice 7: at loosening those up because we have a shortage of great and main island does not have a lot of

[0:49:08] Voice 7: tourist accommodation we really only have the two facilities um which has not changed for many many

[0:49:15] Voice 7: years so

[0:49:16] Trustee Maude: you're on the island today i'm

[0:49:19] Voice 4: here today i've been here the

[0:49:20] Trustee Maude: weekend but yeah so

[0:49:21] Trustee Maude: well jessica i'm asking staff you know it appears we're going to board or finish the

[0:49:27] Trustee Maude: meeting for three o'clock today would it be worthwhile for us to try and do a second

[0:49:32] Trustee Maude: you know

[0:49:41] Voice 7: unfortunately any input you know looked at my agenda and then all of a sudden i'm into

[0:49:48] Voice 7: my weekend mode and all of a sudden all these emails come and i'm like yikes yeah so it's kind

[0:49:54] Voice 7: of you know a pleasure information just came to us yes so i appreciate that absolutely it's all

[0:49:59] Voice 7: All new, so I certainly need that a little bit more time.

[0:50:02] Voice 7: So that's entirely possible that you'll be out of pocket in June.

[0:50:06] Voice 7: I mean, we have another option of just renewing it.

[0:50:09] Voice 7: We are allowed to just renew it for three months, one month,

[0:50:12] Voice 7: but that's costing you a lot of money.

[0:50:14] Voice 7: So realistically, if that's what we could do,

[0:50:18] Voice 7: it would be paid for us to renew it until the end of June.

[0:50:21] Voice 7: Right.

[0:50:22] Voice 7: And I don't think that's reasonable.

[0:50:25] Voice 4: No, no.

[0:50:26] Voice 4: And I appreciate the cost of substantially.

[0:50:28] Voice 4: got it since

[0:50:28] Voice 4: our last approval so I appreciate that consideration

[0:50:31] Voice 7: you know because we could

[0:50:32] Voice 4: you know

[0:50:32] Voice 7: make it for a much much shorter term and then send it back right to the the two

[0:50:37] Voice 7: neighboring properties to somehow sort out whether there's whether it's an irreconcilable

[0:50:42] Voice 7: difference going on here or whether something could be done yeah yeah

[0:50:46] Voice 8: I think the thing that

[0:50:48] Voice 8: I'm hearing is there's um potential friction and we don't want that to create actual ongoing

[0:50:55] Voice 8: going friction in the neighborhood. Everyone needs to

[0:50:59] Voice 8: somehow come to peace with living together. And this is

[0:51:04] Voice 8: changing the use. But like Trustee Dodd said, there's no

[0:51:08] Voice 8: bylaw enforcement files open. And it seems that you've

[0:51:11] Voice 8: addressed everything as it came up. So I don't have any

[0:51:14] Voice 8: concerns with the proposal. I think people who are expressing

[0:51:20] Voice 8: their their concerns about it. It's sort of more, what is this

[0:51:25] Voice 8: doing to our whole community what are we encouraging and i i don't think you're responsible

[0:51:30] Voice 8: to answer all of those um and i think it's perfectly acceptable to have some short-term

[0:51:35] Voice 8: vacation rentals that's just what people what we need in the gulf islands we're not going to be

[0:51:40] Voice 8: able to um supply all the kind of commercial motels that used to maybe be here not anymore

[0:51:49] Voice 8: more so i'm in support of this moving forward if yeah if you want to so i move that we defer

[0:51:56] Voice 7: application application um for the temporary temporary use permit for 2026-0124 until our

[0:52:09] Voice 7: next trust committee meeting june 29th 2026. that work for a motion

[0:52:15] Voice 8: okay lisa that's okay

[0:52:22] Voice 8: yes chair elliott i have that thank you thank you okay do it second there's a second to measure t

[0:52:28] Voice 8: mods any discussion no thank you for your patience appreciate you working with us likewise thank you

[0:52:37] Voice 8: thank you okay all those in favor and that is carried so it'll be back in late june um

[0:52:46] Voice 8: and i do have a question though none of this is on the application page on our website

[0:52:53] Voice 8: But not considered a current application.

[0:52:56] Voice 8: There's like the previous permits. Is there that there isn't. I thought normally we'd see sermons and then all the letters about it on our website.

[0:53:16] Voice 5: Yeah, we can add those.

[0:53:20] Voice 8: Okay, I just want to have one place to look up.

[0:53:24] Voice 8: Thank you so much.

[0:53:29] Voice 4: Can you confirm the best way to set up the site, or is that to make it easier for Highlands Trust to vote?

[0:53:33] Voice 7: By email,

[0:53:34] Voice 4: you can contact both

[0:53:36] Voice 7: Dave and I.

[0:53:37] Voice 7: We're not both coming together, we'll come separately when we can, so email us separately and we'll get over to you.

[0:53:46] Trustee Maude: But maybe, Chair and staff, I want to go today, because you're here, and there won't be much time in advance of the next meeting for you to go.

[0:53:54] Voice 8: You're welcome.

[0:53:56] Trustee Maude: i

[0:53:56] Voice 8: think we're probably in the same ferry back

[0:54:03] Voice 5: i'll probably come i'll probably be back here

[0:54:05] Voice 5: okay

[0:54:05] Voice 8: well we dispatched with the actual business darn it

[0:54:23] Voice 8: I was hoping this would have been a long, more of a long conversation.

[0:54:28] Voice 8: All right then, so we've got our reports now, more generally through pages 73 to 83.

[0:54:43] Voice 8: Thanking everybody for your reports.

[0:54:52] Voice 8: Do we have any discussion on the active projects or future projects list?

[0:55:03] Voice 8: But yes, we're still waiting for the minister and ministry to return the

[0:55:09] Voice 8: I could be

[0:55:13] Voice 8: Come back. Oh,

[0:55:15] Voice 7: yeah, we should get

[0:55:28] Voice 8: Okay, chair's report, oh dear, you want the long version, the longer version, or the,

[0:55:37] Voice 8: I just came out of baby, I see you in my head, it's very bold, yeah, okay, I'll try to be

[0:55:41] Voice 8: for you

[0:55:43] Voice 2: so

[0:56:02] Voice 8: we have um well we met in march as a council of our quarterly trust council meeting

[0:56:09] Voice 8: um at the couch and heritage center in duncan it was absolutely wonderful

[0:56:16] Voice 8: and um we had to approve a budget we did so after much deliberation it's been um

[0:56:23] Voice 8: it's been a very challenging budget season i think it has been for all local governments

[0:56:27] Voice 8: But of note, we did approve or Council approved two new staff positions to deal with some critical capacity issues, issues.

[0:56:40] Voice 8: It's really getting stronger in our communications and engagement with communities.

[0:56:48] Voice 8: And so there's a new communications team lead.

[0:56:51] Voice 8: I expect will be posted in the next month and the Indigenous Relations Manager and that's

[0:56:59] Voice 8: sort of a, it's an emerging necessity because all of our work is so complex and requires

[0:57:10] Voice 8: managing a lot of different relationships and I think Beyond Stress wants to bring consistency

[0:57:15] Voice 8: to that so through our planning the conservancy as um we're asking first nations for input and

[0:57:22] Voice 8: feedback having one person to sort of strategize the best ways and the processes to do that

[0:57:29] Voice 8: um that was the recommendation of our ceo and so council took all nine of the ceo's recommendations

[0:57:34] Voice 8: this is now going back to december but that informed quite a lot of our budget development

[0:57:39] Voice 8: i'm going to pause here because i have a million notes and i'm not in the right document

[0:57:42] Voice 8: Can I go to you two for your reports and then I'll come back with larger tract area reports?

[0:57:49] Voice 8: Sorry.

[0:57:50] Voice 8: Just a second.

[0:57:51] Voice 8: Where the heck is my mute?

[0:57:53] Voice 8: Counselor.

[0:57:54] Voice 8: So,

[0:57:55] Trustee Maude: no, it's delighted to see the spring has arrived.

[0:57:59] Trustee Maude: Things are great.

[0:58:01] Got some feedback from the agricultural society who are doing a Japanese sort of memorial

[0:58:07] walkway beside the museum.

[0:58:10] and their

[0:58:10] Trustee Maude: sincere appreciation that we went to a zero setback for their zoning because it's really

[0:58:16] really allowed

[0:58:17] Trustee Maude: them to do this beautiful beautiful project so there's a little bit of positive

[0:58:22] Trustee Maude: feedback local trust committee for that work okay um

[0:58:25] Trustee Maude: we of course we have dear dear and more dear

[0:58:29] Voice 2: which

[0:58:29] Trustee Maude: is a topic for every meeting and it should

[0:58:31] Trustee Maude: be we'll not let that topic ever not stop just

[0:58:34] Trustee Maude: remember um and um also very appreciative for the um pc fairies for doing the work that they've done

[0:58:40] recently at the terminal we of course named some of that through our bylaws um long overdue

[0:58:47] um and they have more work to do but um it's it's it's made a difference to the community so

[0:58:54] our thanks to dc various and i know they're listening

[0:58:55] Trustee Maude: to all of what we say so

[0:58:57] Trustee Maude: So we will leave it at that.

[0:59:01] Voice 7: I just want to make a tribute to Peter Askin.

[0:59:04] Voice 7: Peter Askin died quite recently.

[0:59:07] Voice 7: Peter was one of the founding members of the Maynard Conservancy,

[0:59:10] Voice 7: but there are still a few more names.

[0:59:12] Voice 7: I recall going to a meeting that he was outside.

[0:59:15] Voice 7: But certainly he was part of that early group.

[0:59:18] Voice 7: Peter also was the chairman of our Maynard Parks Commission for many, many years.

[0:59:23] Voice 7: Peter was always willing to recognize the history of Main Island so when I finally got through the

[0:59:29] Voice 7: naming commission and got Catanaga Bay named that was not easy he was gung-ho to create the trail

[0:59:36] Voice 7: to Catanaga Bay and to get a sign up and to recognize why it was being called Catanaga Bay

[0:59:41] Voice 7: and in a similar tone when he finally got the Henderson Hill Park and the trail which Peter

[0:59:48] Voice 7: really was the driving force behind these trails. We always said his middle name was Peter Goat

[0:59:53] Voice 7: Aspen. There were goat trails and he had walkways so he got a really wonderful sign that

[1:00:00] Voice 7: the head of punches alley that recognizes both captain henderson for henderson hill

[1:00:05] Voice 7: henderson park as they call it and for the punch robson family which punches alley was named after

[1:00:11] Voice 7: um and then the same thing with briggs landy which happens to be my beach but it really is

[1:00:16] Voice 7: briggs landy he was always anxious as a parks chairman and parks commissioner to look to to

[1:00:24] Voice 7: to make sure that people knew the history of Main Island.

[1:00:27] Voice 7: So we have a lot of signs, too many,

[1:00:29] Voice 7: but some of them were important.

[1:00:31] Voice 7: Peter worked really hard, lived here almost 30 years,

[1:00:35] Voice 7: and sadly he killed very much himself.

[1:00:38] Voice 7: I just want to recognize Peter,

[1:00:39] Voice 7: and that was really the major thing.

[1:00:41] Voice 7: Trust Council was very, very challenging

[1:00:45] Voice 7: getting through the budget.

[1:00:46] Voice 7: Some motions to reduce the budget passed, some didn't,

[1:00:51] Voice 7: um but i think it came down from 11 something to more like eight something top my head yeah

[1:00:57] Voice 7: yeah so so it's a challenge right now to uh for for small local governments who are very

[1:01:03] Voice 7: especially our our relationship with first nations we have 33 33

[1:01:08] Voice 2: within

[1:01:09] Voice 7: the island trust area

[1:01:10] Voice 7: real juggling act and and being able to appropriately have conversations with all

[1:01:16] Voice 7: those sacred groups so it's it for us council in the island

[1:01:20] Voice 7: for march yeah

[1:01:22] Voice 8: a few notes from

[1:01:23] Voice 8: executive committee forgive me for fun and i'm on the right page um but uh i don't know if the

[1:01:29] Voice 8: presidents might have noticed but the map it complication is back online so that was down

[1:01:34] Voice 8: for almost uh a year and a half um the software that was while the platform was running on was

[1:01:41] Voice 8: discontinued and so we had to rebuild our staff gis staff had to rebuild a totally different

[1:01:47] Voice 8: product in-house, but it's much improved. There's a lot more detail.

[1:01:50] Voice 8: Can

[1:01:50] Voice 7: I say, like, if you're a layperson and non-techie, you can go to this map and you can

[1:01:55] Voice 7: see exactly how close your shed or your car is to all the property lines. It's

[1:02:00] Voice 7: fabulous. Or

[1:02:01] Voice 7: had somebody recently who turned out to have a lot right beside them that's owned by the province,

[1:02:06] Voice 7: and it was easy and clear to see on map where that actually said

[1:02:11] Voice 7: belongs to the province. So when they emailed me, I was able to find and view it on that.

[1:02:17] Voice 7: program so go to map it and it's just fun to look around the island to see where all these lots are

[1:02:22] Voice 7: you may need a user guide because it's quite in depth

[1:02:27] Voice 8: i'm not very good at navigate but

[1:02:30] Voice 8: i don't know yeah i

[1:02:30] Voice 8: know i find it really easy and i know

[1:02:32] Voice 8: that things um and sort of related to that uh there will be uh or there's a plan to be a

[1:02:39] Voice 8: realtor's education webinar uh for realtors in the trust area a workshop that trust area services

[1:02:45] Voice 8: is putting together probably an archaeology expert really centering on map it and sort of

[1:02:52] Voice 8: sharing that tool again and the living in the trust area

[1:02:58] Voice 8: information scheduled sometime between may and september not sure when um executive committee

[1:03:04] Voice 8: there is new information coming out on the coastal marine strategy and i think at our

[1:03:09] Voice 8: executive committee meeting we asked for a potential presentation um and for council

[1:03:16] Voice 8: to consider recommending an advocacy position um my trust council uh yeah

[1:03:22] Voice 8: there's legislative monitoring coming back there's three significant bills

[1:03:28] Voice 8: that affect the trust area but we will be spending some time on the policy statement

[1:03:36] Voice 8: Those of you who have given input on that, thank you so much.

[1:03:40] Voice 8: That was a lot of input, public comment.

[1:03:43] Voice 8: Staff are compiling that in a what we've heard report with a summary of the feedback received to date.

[1:03:49] Voice 8: And some of the options will be coming to Committee of the Whole, likely on the May 13th meeting.

[1:03:56] Voice 8: So that's a special meeting. We'll receive all of that and consider it.

[1:04:01] Voice 8: and then something i wanted to share actually from bowen island which is in the trust area of

[1:04:08] Voice 8: course um they had a really great presentation by the bowen conservancy on their biodiversity plan

[1:04:16] Voice 8: and um it's got some open source tools so this was developed by conservancy with some um

[1:04:24] Voice 8: i don't know what you call them experts who created an integrated conservation values tool

[1:04:31] Voice 8: spatial conservation prioritization tool which combines all species habitat and the intactness

[1:04:39] Voice 8: layers like how much the habitat has been undisturbed to identify where biodiversity

[1:04:44] Voice 8: is highest and what conservation values will have the greatest impact so that was presented

[1:04:48] Voice 8: to the Bowen um uh council and they've asked to that for that tool to be applied to their OCP

[1:04:56] Voice 8: so I think this is work that we well speaking assembly of the conservancy we're sort of

[1:05:01] Voice 8: looking for different ways that um yeah how to how to where to target our preservation

[1:05:09] Voice 8: and protection goals like rather than just little patches here and there so i think that's sort of a

[1:05:16] Voice 8: really neat tool and i think that's about

[1:05:22] Voice 7: it i'm relevant to see i forgot when they mentioned deer

[1:05:26] Voice 7: that there is a webinar so me on the island trust website and that was about the fallow deer

[1:05:31] Voice 7: year and it's actually quite well done um lots of different speakers on that so if you're wondering

[1:05:37] Voice 7: about the fallow deer that was more informational um but you can go in the next thing with the

[1:05:41] Voice 7: webinar and you can watch 10 minutes of the whole thing um a mix of presenters i just did the base

[1:05:48] Voice 7: of history so people don't understand the histories at the beginning um but it was i think

[1:05:54] Voice 7: very successful revenues when

[1:05:56] Voice 8: did we do that again it

[1:05:57] Voice 7: was march was the week before the western

[1:05:59] Voice 7: council was it

[1:06:01] Voice 7: march the 4th yeah march the 4th okay but

[1:06:03] Voice 7: it's in their file i mean i've actually

[1:06:05] Voice 7: gone through a bunch of like their fire smart webinar and one other one they there's they're

[1:06:10] Voice 7: all quite interesting yeah

[1:06:13] Voice 8: so people on their programs is that what they yeah

[1:06:16] Voice 7: there is that

[1:06:17] Voice 7: there is a website for math it is really good and the webinars that have been saved up over the

[1:06:23] Voice 7: years your

[1:06:24] Voice 8: advocacy is working because trust council is now receiving multiple letters from

[1:06:28] Voice 8: multiple jurisdictions about the impact of the black tail well

[1:06:32] Voice 7: as well but

[1:06:33] Voice 8: it's just

[1:06:34] Voice 8: i think residents are starting to recognize how much impact ungulates are having

[1:06:39] Voice 7: even yeah even

[1:06:40] Voice 7: if you don't have the following issue you have huge black tail yeah in terms of the devastation

[1:06:46] Voice 7: of what should the era is not here that's true yes

[1:06:51] Voice 8: and then uh trustee bond or vice

[1:06:53] Voice 8: chairman i just came back from association vancouver island coastal communities conjunction

[1:06:58] Voice 8: I just want to highlight one. It's of interest to me, but it might be of interest here because I know you're working on housing and tiny homes, but there is a resolution from the NINR regional district about scaling building code requirements for residential homes and accessory buildings under 1,000 square feet,

[1:07:19] Voice 8: calling on the province to investigate a simplified rural building standard or alternative

[1:07:26] Voice 8: compliance pathway for small homes that meet safety climate and seismic resiliency requirements

[1:07:33] Voice 8: so this was actually they worked on it with their staff and there is evidence even in the

[1:07:40] Voice 8: province's own reporting saying that the you know the as the codes are getting more and more

[1:07:46] Voice 8: you know

[1:07:47] Voice 8: complex with seismic and big walls and everything when you reduce that to a thousand

[1:07:52] Voice 8: square foot home it actually makes it net negative efficient like it's yeah and this was in like

[1:08:00] Voice 8: the the provincial the last building code update whatever they came back with like this is something

[1:08:06] Voice 8: we may need to investigate so already on staff we're like hey wait a minute we should like

[1:08:11] Voice 8: tell them to do a cost benefit review of how much you know the building code is getting more and more

[1:08:18] Voice 8: whatever seismically entrenched is is creating a bad yeah and so we're trying to build smaller

[1:08:26] Voice 8: homes we're trying to get smaller homes so how do we like actually remove especially by eight walls

[1:08:31] Voice 8: yeah yeah so that was a really good um yeah i'm gonna be following that and then there was another

[1:08:39] Voice 8: one about banning raw log exports to ensure forest harvests in bc are processed in bc

[1:08:45] Voice 8: uh lots of key resolutions there's actually a resolutions uh database where members can

[1:09:00] Voice 8: access it and review past policy decisions so trustees if you want to go back anyways

[1:09:05] Voice 8: Anyways, enough babbling from me.

[1:09:07] Voice 8: We do not have an electoral area director's report.

[1:09:10] Voice 8: There's a conservancy report, pages 83 of our agenda.

[1:09:15] Voice 8: And so we're turning to new business.

[1:09:17] Voice 8: Bigger math.

[1:09:18] Voice 8: It's already been an hour.

[1:09:21] Voice 8: We have a language of the 20, 24, 95, 26 annual report.

[1:09:27] Voice 8: Request for this decision.

[1:09:30] Voice 8: Is there any changes in that?

[1:09:32] Trustee Maude: My only comment on this was, for some reason, we identified, I mean, I don't know what we're

[1:09:40] estimating it to be,

[1:09:41] Trustee Maude: the NALTC, but there's only two instances where it gets used under

[1:09:47] Trustee Maude: that weird acronym.

[1:09:48] Trustee Maude: And it just makes sense to me that if it just said the

[1:09:52] Trustee Maude: LTC, rather than this NALTC thingy.

[1:09:57] Trustee Maude: You mean when

[1:09:57] Voice 7: they bracket us

[1:09:58] Trustee Maude: out there and then they don't anywhere else.

[1:10:02] Trustee Maude: it doesn't read very well to me

[1:10:03] Voice 7: sometimes he says ma and other times he doesn't yeah

[1:10:06] Voice 7: they should just say ltc and no image we

[1:10:09] Voice 8: could make a recommendation because i think the

[1:10:12] Voice 8: communication staff person will have to make everything consistent and probably consult

[1:10:17] Voice 8: hearing that big report but if you want to make that recommendation that you know that staff

[1:10:23] Voice 8: staff consider consist not using the acronym?

[1:10:27] Voice 8: No.

[1:10:28] Voice 8: Okay.

[1:10:28] Trustee Maude: Do I approve?

[1:10:30] Trustee Maude: Well, okay.

[1:10:32] Trustee Maude: Is it two motions?

[1:10:33] Trustee Maude: Should we do...

[1:10:35] Voice 8: I mean, if you want to adopt the recommended language, and then a second request, staff

[1:10:44] Voice 8: consider not using this acronym because we're subject

[1:10:48] Voice 7: to a steps removal of the

[1:10:51] Voice 7: algorithm well

[1:10:52] Voice 8: we can't make it subject to because in case they can't

[1:10:59] Trustee Maude: it's funny because this is the third or fourth one i've seen and i don't remember seeing this

[1:11:04] Trustee Maude: on the other ones so okay but i know i'm not i'm not saying they're not there

[1:11:08] Trustee Maude: It's the

[1:11:09] Trustee Maude: first time it's been flagged in my head, and it's being a little bit weird.

[1:11:15] Trustee Maude: So I'll make the first motion for the Main Island Local Trust Committee approves the

[1:11:19] Trustee Maude: attached text for infusion and inclusion in the 2025-26 annual report, approved by Trust

[1:11:24] Trustee Maude: Council in submission to the Minister for Housing and Municipal Affairs.

[1:11:27] Voice 8: Thank you.

[1:11:28] Voice 8: I move to second it.

[1:11:30] Voice 8: Any discussion?

[1:11:31] Voice 8: It's discussed.

[1:11:33] Voice 8: All those in favour?

[1:11:34] Voice 8: That is carried.

[1:11:35] Voice 8: And

[1:11:35] Trustee Maude: I will move to the Mainland Local Trust Committee, request staff review utilization of the acronym M-A-L-T-C.

[1:11:46] Trustee Maude: Or just M-A.

[1:11:47] Trustee Maude: Or

[1:11:47] Voice 7: just M-A.

[1:11:48] Voice 7: Yeah, but

[1:11:49] Trustee Maude: that's acronym used.

[1:11:51] Trustee Maude: So it's just removing that acronym and just using LTC instead.

[1:11:56] Voice 8: Sure.

[1:11:57] Voice 8: Okay.

[1:11:57] Voice 8: Review the use of the acronym M-A.

[1:12:01] Voice 8: Yeah.

[1:12:01] Voice 8: Perfect.

[1:12:02] Voice 8: in the annual. Thank you.

[1:12:11] Trustee Maude: Did Lisa get enough of that to make sense? I know she did.

[1:12:19] Voice 5: Yes, trustee Mudd, I have that. Thank you.

[1:12:21] Trustee Maude: Thank you so much. We do admire you.

[1:12:24] Voice 8: Okay. All those in favor? And that is carried. Thank you. So I think that concludes our business

[1:12:35] Voice 8: this, except for a second public participation time. If you have any comments that we need to

[1:12:43] Voice 8: take away with us to consider, this may not be on the agenda next meeting, because public

[1:12:52] Voice 8: participation periods are normally limited to one. They've gone all the way to the other LTC,

[1:12:58] Voice 8: and this is the only one that still has two. And it actually had some challenges in the past of

[1:13:04] Voice 8: like discussing material that was previously discussed already so but the public has anything

[1:13:11] Voice 8: else to say that we haven't heard we would welcome in the rest of my i'll keep my motion

[1:13:17] Voice 7: it's not gonna no no it's our but sometimes things come up like yeah the problem with

[1:13:21] Voice 7: having at the beginning and then the conversations carry on and then people

[1:13:24] Voice 7: like normally we have a lot more happening this isn't fairly like the gym yeah so

[1:13:29] Voice 7: it's always a

[1:13:29] Voice 7: chance for people to come back and say well i didn't understand what you were doing just

[1:13:34] Voice 7: Just technically, it's a business meeting, it's just our meeting, and this is a way to make it more community.

[1:13:40] Voice 7: So somehow we'll probably still sneak that in.

[1:13:44] Trustee Maude: They still exist on North Pender, on Saturna.

[1:13:50] Trustee Maude: I'm on South Pender too.

[1:13:53] Voice 2: It's just

[1:13:53] Voice 2: a very new thing.

[1:13:55] Trustee Maude: Well, we're trading way off.

[1:13:59] Trustee Maude: I wish they'd be consistent.

[1:14:00] Trustee Maude: Because sometimes it's town hall.

[1:14:02] Trustee Maude: sometimes participate in public participation sometimes something else

[1:14:06] Voice 8: we'll make it more

[1:14:08] Voice 8: consistent but you may not like it all right but seriously this is your time folks if you'd like to

[1:14:16] Voice 8: give us any feedback or share any of your questions or comments please you

[1:14:20] Voice 6: know just in the staff

[1:14:21] Voice 6: report and they weren't online and you know that you spoke in the different uh yeah

[1:14:26] Voice 6: people in the

[1:14:27] Voice 6: the community are those going to be posted yeah

[1:14:29] Voice 8: that's a good question so it came in late it does

[1:14:34] Voice 8: seem to differ because i've seen applications online but maybe tups are not normally put online

[1:14:40] Voice 8: because it's sent to all the neighbors for comments i

[1:14:45] Voice 6: think we would i would have yeah

[1:14:48] Voice 8: yeah

[1:14:49] Voice 6: no

[1:14:53] Voice 8: and i checked and it's not on our website

[1:14:56] Voice 8: So thank you for that. And I think we're going to check back with the office.

[1:15:01] Voice 8: I don't have any answers right now, but thank you.

[1:15:09] Voice 8: Questions. OK, let's go and ride some of this beautiful sunshine.

[1:15:14] Voice 2: And

[1:15:14] Voice 8: I'll call for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Seconded. And we are adjourned.

[1:15:18] Voice 8: Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Lisa.

[1:15:24] Voice 8: Thank you.

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Mayne Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date:  
Location:  
April 27, 2026 
Mayne Island Church House 
360 Georgina Point Road, Mayne Island, BC 
 
Members Present: Tobi Elliott, Chair 
 David Maude, Local Trustee 
 Jeanine Dodds, Local Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Mary Storzer, Regional Planning Manager 
 Narissa Chadwick, Island Planner 
 Bruce Belcher, Planner 2 
 Lisa Millard, Meeting Administrator/Recorder (electronic) 
  
Others Present: There were  members 5 of the public present. 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Chair Elliott called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.  
2. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
Chair Elliott acknowledged that the meeting was being held in the territory of the Coast 
Salish First Nations. 
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
By general consent, the agenda was approved as presented. 
4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PERIOD 
A member of the public spoke in opposition to Temporary Use Permit application PL-TUP-
2026-0124 noting the renewal period has expired and the applicant is applying for a new 
permit which defeats the purpose of the temporary nature of the permit and circumvents 
the requirement for rezoning. 
• Planner Belcher stated a Temporary Use Permit has a maximum term of three years 
and can be renewed for an additional three years and there is no legislative 
requirement that does not allow ongoing reissuance 
• Trustees noted if rezoning were approved the use becomes permanent while a 
Temporary Use Permit provides opportunity for monitoring and intervention if 
conditions of the permit are not being met 
5. COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING - None 
6. PUBLIC HEARING - None 
ADOPTED 

 
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7. MINUTES 
7.1 Local Trust Committee Minutes Dated February 23, 2026 (for Adoption) 
By general consent the Mayne Island Local Trust Committee meeting minutes of 
February 23, 2026 were adopted. 
7.2 Section 26 Resolutions-without-meeting Report - None 
7.3 Advisory Planning Commission Minutes - None 
8. BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES 
8.1 Follow-up Action List Dated April 2026 
Received for information. 
9. DELEGATIONS - None 
10. CORRESPONDENCE 
Correspondence received concerning current applications or projects is posted to the LTC 
webpage 
11. APPLICATIONS AND REFERRALS 
11.1 North Pender Island Local Trust Committee Referral for Draft Bylaws 236 and 
237 (for Response) 
MA-2026-025 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee respond to the North Pender 
Island Local Trust Committee that interests are unaffected by Draft Bylaws 
236 and 237. 
CARRIED 
11.2 North Pender Island Local Trust Committee Referral for Draft Bylaw No. 242 (for 
Response) 
MA-2026-026 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee respond to the North Pender 
Island Local Trust Committee that interests are unaffected by Draft Bylaw 
No. 242. 
CARRIED 
11.3 Galiano Island Local Trust Committee Referral for Draft Bylaw No. 300 (for 
Response) 
MA-2026-027 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee respond to the Galiano Island 
Local Trust Committee that interests are unaffected by Draft Bylaw No. 300. 
CARRIED 

 
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11.4 MA-PL-RZ-2025-0305 (BC Ferries) – Draft Bylaw No. 200 - Staff Report 
Planner Belcher summarized the staff report and noted the application seeks site-
specific rezoning of a portion of the foreshore to permit shoreline stabilization 
structures intended to manage and prevent ongoing erosion of the shoreline bank. 
The Local Trust Committee had no questions or comments. 
MA-2026-028 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 200 cited as “Mayne 
Island Land Use Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025” be read for 
a first time. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-029 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 200 cited as “Mayne 
Island Land Use Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025” be read for 
a second time. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-030 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 200 cited as “Mayne 
Island Land Use Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025” be read for 
a third time. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-031 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee has reviewed the Islands Trust 
Policy Statement Directives Only Checklist and determined that Bylaw No. 
200, cited as “Mayne Island Land Use Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 
2, 2025” is not contrary to or at variance with the Islands Trust Policy 
Statement. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-032 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 200 cited as “Mayne 
Island Land Use Bylaw No. 146, 2008, Amendment No. 2, 2025” be 
forwarded to the Secretary of the Islands Trust for approval by the Executive 
Committee. 
CARRIED 
11.5 MA-PL-TUP-2026-0060 (Cranna) - Staff Report 
Planner Belcher summarized the staff report and highlighted the following: 
• The application seeks a Temporary Use Permit for a recreational vehicle to be 
used as a dwelling on a commercially zoned property 

 
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• The existing dwelling on the property is being commercially rented to four 
different businesses 
• The draft permit includes conditions to limit impacts to neighbouring properties 
and a condition to require fence screening  
• There has been one response opposing the application due to concerns of the 
number of vehicles parked on site and lot coverage in excess of allowances 
The applicant was in attendance and spoke to the application. 
Discussion ensued and the following comments were noted: 
• Regardless of the number of parking spaces in place there will be times of 
overflow due to the nature of the surrounding businesses and the applicant is 
seeking ways in which some additional parking might be provided 
• All buildings on the subject property are within lot coverage permissions 
MA-2026-033 
It was MOVED and SECONDED. 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee amend Temporary Use Permit PL-
TUP-2026-0060 by adding the following condition: 
a.  Construction of a fence along the east and west sides of the 
recreational vehicle to effectively shield the visual impact of the 
recreational vehicle from neighbouring properties and Montrose 
Road. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-034 
It was MOVED and SECONDED 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee approve issuance of Temporary 
Use Permit PLTUP-2026-0060 as amended, for a period of three (3) years. 
CARRIED 
11.6 MA-PL-TUP-2026-0124 (Baker and Costello) - Staff Report 
Planner Belcher summarized the staff report and highlighted the following: 
• The application seeks a Temporary Use Permit for a short-term vacation rental 
to be operated within an existing single-family dwelling 
• The rental operated under a previously issued Temporary Use Permit and 
renewal which is expiring 
• There are no changes to conditions specified under the original permit 
• One letter in support and four letters in opposition of the application were 
received 
The applicant was in attendance, spoke to the application, and addressed concerns 
detailed by those in opposition of the permit. 
Discussion ensued and the following comments were recorded: 
• Due to the late receipt of letters expressing opposition to the application, the 
Trustees indicated they would like to do a site visit prior to making a decision on 
the application 

 
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• There have been no bylaw complaints regarding the property and the applicant 
has provided information showing any complaints have been addressed in a 
timely manner 
MA-2026-035 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee defer consideration of the 
application for Temporary Use Permit PLTUP-2026-0124 until the June 29, 
2026 Local Trust Committee meeting. 
CARRIED 
12. LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE PROJECTS - None 
13. REPORTS  
13.1 Work Program Reports 
13.1.1 Active Projects Report Dated April 2026 
Received for information. 
13.1.2 Future Project List Report Dated April 2026 
Received for information. 
13.2 Applications Report Dated April 2026 
Received for information. 
13.3 Trustee and Local Expense Report Dated Feb 2026 
Received for information. 
13.4 Adopted Policies and Standing Resolutions 
Received for information. 
13.5 Local Trust Committee Webpage - None 
13.6 Chair's Report 
Chair Elliott reported the following: 
• Attended March Trust Council and highlighted adoption of the 2026/27 budget 
and approval of two new staff positions including a Communication Team Lead 
and Indigenous Relations Manager 
• The MapIt tool has returned to the website 
• Trust Area Services is working on a Realtors Education workshop which will 
include information on the MapIt tool and living in the Trust Area 
• Executive Committee has requested a presentation on the Coastal Marine 
Strategy for consideration of a Trust Council advocacy position 
• The Legislative Monitoring Report will return to Trust Council in June 
• Feedback on the draft Trust Policy Statement will be coming to Committee of   
the Whole in May for discussion 

 
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• Attended a presentation by the Bowen Island Conservancy on a Bowen Island 
biodiversity plan and highlighted new open-source tools that will be applied to 
their Official Community Plan 
• Attended the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities conference 
and spoke to a resolution put forward by the Regional District of Nanaimo 
regarding scaling building code requirements for homes under 1000 square feet 
13.7 Trustee Report 
Trustee Maude reported the following: 
• Receipt of positive feedback from the Mayne Island Agricultural Society 
regarding their rezoning application outcome which allowed changes to 
setbacks providing the ability for them to build a Japanese memorial walkway  
• Appreciation for the work done on the BC Ferries terminal 
Trustee Dodds reported the following: 
• Recognized the passing of Peter Askin, founding member of Mayne Island 
Conservancy, and spoke to their contributions to the community 
• Attended Trust Council and noted challenges regarding budget approval 
13.8 Electoral Area Director's Report - None 
13.9 Islands Trust Conservancy Report Date Feb 2026 
Received for information. 
14. NEW BUSINESS 
14.1 2025/26 Annual Report - Request for Decision 
Recommend that staff consider not using the MALTC acronym. 
MA-2026-036 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee approves the attached text for 
inclusion in the 2025/26 Annual Report for approval by Trust Council and 
submission to the Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. 
CARRIED 
MA-2026-037 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Mayne Island Local Trust Committee request staff review the use of 
acronym MALTC in the 2026/27 Annual Report. 
CARRIED 
15. UPCOMING MEETINGS 
15.1 Next Regular Meeting Scheduled for June 29, 2026 at the Mayne Island 
Agricultural Hall, Mayne Island 
  

 
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16. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PERIOD  
A member of the public asked if correspondence regarding the Temporary Use Permit 
application will be posted on the applications page of the website. 
The Chair replied they will check with administrative staff as she is unsure if this 
information is typically published. 
17. CLOSED MEETING - None 
18. ADJOURNMENT 
By general consent the meeting was adjourned at 2:16 p.m. 
 
 
 
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Tobi Elliott, Chair 
 
Certified Correct: 
 
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Lisa Millard, Meeting Administrator/Recorder