Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 16, 2026

[0:00:00] Voice 11: Good morning, everyone. I'd like to call this regular meeting of the Gabriel Local Trust

[0:00:04] Voice 11: Committee to order. We are live streaming and we're recording this meeting. The recording

[0:00:09] Voice 11: will be available online the days to follow. I always begin by acknowledging with respect

[0:00:15] Voice 11: and humility that these lands and waters of Gabriel Local Trust Area have been home to

[0:00:19] Voice 11: Indigenous people since time immemorial. Their deep connection to these islands continues

[0:00:25] Voice 11: used to this day and we honor their enduring presence, constitutional rights,

[0:00:29] Voice 6: and responsibilities.

[0:00:31] Voice 6: I'm honored to say that Breaking Bannock,

[0:00:35] Voice 8: you've

[0:00:36] Voice 6: arrived just in time, an initiative

[0:00:38] Voice 6: the Gabriel Law Arts Council was awarded the Islands Trust Community Stewardship Award.

[0:00:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Thank you.

[0:00:45] Voice 11: Breaking Bannock aims to build bridges within the community by sharing Indigenous

[0:00:49] Voice 11: knowledge and connections through shared experiences, storytelling, and events on the island.

[0:00:55] Voice 11: very grateful for the work that you do in the community so thank you

[0:01:01] Voice 6: um i'm laura packard i'm elected on salt spring island but i'm the chair of this local trust

[0:01:06] Voice 6: committee i'm joined today by trustee susan yates and trustee toby elliott and together we make up

[0:01:13] Voice 6: your local trust committee uh we have a number of staff joining us today we have our planner

[0:01:19] Voice 6: planner Stephen Baum. I believe regional planning manager Renee

[0:01:24] Voice 6: Jammer is probably in the background, maybe. We have Lisa

[0:01:28] Voice 6: Millard, our minute taker, and we have our planner, Nerissa

[0:01:33] Voice 6: Chadwick. And online we have Lauren Digman, manager of bylaw

[0:01:38] Voice 6: enforcement. And do we have anyone else? William Shula, our

[0:01:44] Voice 6: freshwater specialist, and Ian Cox,

[0:01:47] Voice 11: another planner that's with

[0:01:48] Voice 11: with us so thank you to the staff for being here today uh this meeting is an official forum for

[0:01:55] Voice 11: your local trust committee to make decisions about land use planning matters and discuss

[0:01:59] Voice 11: relevant business

[0:02:00] Voice 6: this is also a place of employment our staff have the right to a safe

[0:02:05] Voice 6: respectful workplace i'll come back in a moment we'll have a lot of times on the agenda for you

[0:02:10] Voice 6: to speak to shortly and i'll have a few words to say before we open that period so trustees we have

[0:02:16] Voice 6: an agenda before us are there any additions or changes to the agenda

[0:02:21] Voice 11: can we approve the agenda through general consent thank you

[0:02:24] Voice 8: so

[0:02:25] Voice 11: we're going to go into the reports

[0:02:26] Voice 11: section first um so we have trustee reports your trustees are very busy and

[0:02:31] Voice 11: uh i'm very they do a

[0:02:33] Voice 11: lot of work in our in our island stress so thank you and uh you can choose who goes first i'll do

[0:02:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): do my rapid fire report. So I sort of separate it into three sections. There's a lot of community

[0:02:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): meetings and events that I attended that were really, yeah, it's just, it's a very active time.

[0:02:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So just a short overview, the May 23rd, the Japanese Heritage Exhibit, the opening at the

[0:03:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): museum and the grand opening at pages marina it was so well attended there's many dignitaries

[0:03:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um the council general from uh for japan was there and um and having worked with the museum

[0:03:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think it was 10 years ago on this mini documentary about silva bay uh that was my

[0:03:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): first introduction to the the japanese uh settlers who had developed the sawmill and the um and the

[0:03:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the fish plant.

[0:03:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so this was an opportunity to just see

[0:03:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): through the artisans in the community

[0:03:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and the legacy documents and the letters,

[0:03:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): really what that looked and felt like.

[0:03:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And it was a remarkable exhibit.

[0:03:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I encourage everyone to take a look.

[0:03:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's a really significant part of our collective heritage.

[0:03:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The attendance of Sustainable Gabriola meetings.

[0:04:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There's lots of interest in supporting community

[0:04:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): information about the elections in general how to participate and education on governance generally

[0:04:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like how how are the islands governed and islands trusted this comes up every election cycle so

[0:04:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um i'm glad to see that there's a group that seems to be undertaking some community information on

[0:04:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that uh i'll take a step back but sustainable gabriel also published that might be of interest

[0:04:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to folks a household water guide back in February or March this year and it's a really useful guide

[0:04:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because this is as we know a very complex issue with a lot of different regulatory

[0:04:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): streams and so I've been encouraging folks to look at that guide and I also wanted to point

[0:04:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the like transition salt spring over on just sort of a similar group they have published a

[0:05:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): wildfire ready guide as a community resource and I'm thinking that Sustainable Gabriela might

[0:05:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): undertake something like that. So the Gabriela helped them while being collaborative. They had

[0:05:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a quarterly in-person meeting and I attended that and shared about Breaking Bannock receiving the

[0:05:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Stewardship Award. I learned there there is interest in doing a social systems map of

[0:05:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Gabriel Organizations from someone who attended and I shared the draft OCP with them because how

[0:05:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all these how do we collaborate together how do we things that aren't strictly in

[0:05:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Islands Trust jurisdiction need to be mapped out so people understand who the different players are

[0:05:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so there is interest in the Gabriel Health and Wellbeing Collaborative and sort of creating a

[0:05:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): systems map um gabriella oceans day was pretty well attended um june 7th hosted by the marine

[0:06:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): division at the reserve number five and we had an excellent lovely barbecued sockeye and um gosh

[0:06:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what else was there was a panic of course panic and lots of education about the burgers

[0:06:16] Voice 7: and

[0:06:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And elk burgers, that's right, that's right.

[0:06:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's a really good opportunity to connect

[0:06:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with some of the members and their staff,

[0:06:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): especially what they're doing in marine monitoring.

[0:06:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They've done a lot of baseline mapping.

[0:06:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so they had all their remote operated vessels

[0:06:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and showing us how that works.

[0:06:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So gave a little pride, I was happy to attend that.

[0:06:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I toured prospective vets around the island.

[0:06:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's something the community is wildly interested in and we desperately need some veterinarians.

[0:06:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Attended the food security forum, which speak local farmer, Greg Bradley, was speaking about

[0:06:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): food security and looking into the future and there's something there's some things

[0:07:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that came out of that that could relate to our digital community plan, especially in

[0:07:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regards to water security.

[0:07:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um security getting to that for me getting to that discussion i organized a fundraiser with

[0:07:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): much support for sunimak monokunu family going on tribal journeys we raised about 3 700 thank you

[0:07:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the community a very long list of donors um who supported the beautiful raffle baskets that

[0:07:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we were able to give out we were able to give a gift to um elder gary mattson and donna because

[0:07:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they do such important work in um supporting the next generation and going on these um journeys

[0:07:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and then we did oh yes this is the name of blanketing ceremony um that was how we recently

[0:07:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): led by elder geraldine matson to honor six of our community stewardship leaders

[0:07:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): leaders, Phyllis Reeves, Nick Doe, Liz Ciocia, Darlene Mace, and Rob Brokley. Did I miss

[0:08:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): somebody? Two, three, four, five. Deborah

[0:08:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Ferencz, I am so sorry. Deborah Ferencz,

[0:08:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): raising our hands to you. You are community leaders who have done incredible work that

[0:08:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): work that government can't necessarily do, but that has shaped the stewardship legacy

[0:08:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of this island and continues to affect our work today.

[0:08:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I was one of four called as a witness.

[0:08:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And part of that role is to continue to uplift their work

[0:08:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and remind the community of what they do

[0:08:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and bring their knowledge to the forefront.

[0:08:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Nick Doe in particular, his editions of the Shale magazine

[0:08:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are just incredible if you want to know

[0:08:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about natural history and heritage.

[0:08:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And finally, I joined a tour that RDN Director Vanessa Craig organized for Minister of State

[0:08:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the World Communities, Brittany Anderson.

[0:09:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): She made a visit to Gabriela, sort of on a tour of some communities.

[0:09:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so there's a long list of places that they visited, Vanessa Craig really focused

[0:09:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on initiatives, community initiatives to meet the needs.

[0:09:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and it was a great tour and L.A. Sheila Malcolmson came and really provided transportation so

[0:09:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that was really lovely to be a part of that. Quickly Islands Trust meetings

[0:09:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): participated in a monitoring visit to Link Island. Link Island is a really significant it's the

[0:09:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): largest donation to the Conservancy in our history and there isn't still a development

[0:09:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a stewardship plan and so this was an opportunity to see what's on the land connect with the um

[0:09:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the donors of the land who had the swift family and um we really it's it's so eye-opening there

[0:09:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is over 50 culturally modified trees that had been identified um by uh various first nations

[0:10:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): as significant so that work is is working in partnership uh to develop that stewardship

[0:10:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that I'm pleased to witness that.

[0:10:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Couple executive committee meetings.

[0:10:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There is a big engagement

[0:10:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on the Heritage Conservation Act Transformation Project.

[0:10:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So there's an update and if folks want information on that,

[0:10:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the latest sort of thinking from,

[0:10:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's actually under the Ministry of Forests, which is wild.

[0:10:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But they took feedback and I gave some insight

[0:10:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): insight into how policy development like our OCP could work together with Heritage and they might

[0:10:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): look at connecting with the Ministry of Housing um specifically for how land use planning intersects

[0:10:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with Heritage conservation the trust Council was held July 17th to 19th that was online that's our

[0:10:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): our marathon three-day quarterly meeting was it june sorry june yes uh and attended the southern

[0:11:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gulf islands forum and shared of course meetings and then there's been lots of conversation with

[0:11:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): community that's sort of been my focus this last two months posting on social media a lot more than

[0:11:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i would

[0:11:20] Voice 8: rather

[0:11:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): started out this term saying i'm not going to use social media to talk policy it

[0:11:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is a limited platform it's it's it's prone to misinformation but there's just been so much

[0:11:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): happening and there is a segment of our community that um you know gets its news still from meta

[0:11:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i just want to note for everyone's information um the sometimes when we post uh links

[0:11:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like islands trust links meta breaks them because it treats them as news and so that's what happened

[0:11:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with a few of my posts people like where is that are you not posting a link the page doesn't exist

[0:11:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's something we don't really have control over so um actually somebody archived in the wayback

[0:12:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): machine the freshwater footprint uh report so that can live online and not be corrupted by

[0:12:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um i hosted nine drop-in sessions and i think you were able to attend on the ocp to just hear

[0:12:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): from community uh worked through the document gave out about 40 copies of the draft document thanks

[0:12:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to staff for providing those thank you to the community for coming with your questions like

[0:12:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this is really important to engage early in the process policy making is not easy and so just

[0:12:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): getting familiar with the document which is the stage we're at now um so that you can navigate it

[0:12:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): enough to go okay well what does that mean and how does that relate and understand the discussions

[0:12:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we're having, I think that's been really important, but we'll keep trying to make

[0:12:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that available. I think we should talk about, yeah we'll talk about the

[0:13:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): engagement later. Email me if you want like reports or links to things

[0:13:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because I have right now Susan and I are sort of at the maturity part of our term

[0:13:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): kind of know where everything is and if you're having problems getting information

[0:13:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): email one of us and we'll we'll send you where it is because it is hard to find in our website

[0:13:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which will hopefully one day be fixed okay thank you trustee elliot great work there thank you for

[0:13:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): organizing our drop-in sessions too as you say i've attended about half of them and it's great

[0:13:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because sometimes we have more people than we can handle with one person so we split up and yeah

[0:13:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's really well so my trustee report um since the last meeting we had which is may 21st

[0:14:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is in chronological order and the first thing i have here is our attendance at the islands trust

[0:14:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): quarterly meeting um trust council's quarterly meetings are all the trustees from all the islands

[0:14:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So 13 islands, 26 trustees, those who show up, I may say,

[0:14:21] Voice 8: and

[0:14:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): those who do not show up, the burden is left for the ones who do show up and they have to work extra hard.

[0:14:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Thank you to the sounder for pointing that out.

[0:14:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So when I give you my highlights of council meetings, they're my highlights.

[0:14:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so the big highlight for me was that even though it was an online meeting and not in person we had

[0:14:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a beautiful opening with Comox elder Donna Mitchell sorry about the typo in my report to

[0:14:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you there Lisa Donna Mitchell not Mitchell and she spoke about being part of the 60s scoop and

[0:15:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): never meeting her grandparents and I that just was so touching and it when we have an opening

[0:15:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): me like that it sets the tone for where we are who we live with

[0:15:13] Voice 8: who

[0:15:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): lived here for thousands of

[0:15:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): years before us and what they're having to deal with in our current government systems we think

[0:15:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's hard for us oh boy so we have a review of the draft budget development process uh considerations

[0:15:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the 20 27 28 fiscal year it's comprehensive it's for we get these really forward-looking

[0:15:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): staff reports which are are very helpful for trustees to figure out what do we need to budget

[0:15:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for in the next four years three years two years next year we had a review of draft candidate

[0:15:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): information and new council orientation program this will ensure that all new trustees are well

[0:15:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): prepared for their jobs and there will be a lot of new trustees and we know now that many current

[0:16:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sitting trustees are not running again and it's a difficult job to learn and so

[0:16:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the better orientation you have, the better job you will do and then you need

[0:16:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to show up. We approved the draft Indigenous Relations Action Plan for the

[0:16:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): next two years, looking good. We allocated funding to support the

[0:16:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Bainsound-Lambert Channel Ecosystem Forum Society, the Rural Economic

[0:16:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): partnership, Islands Economic Partnership, the Coastal Douglas for Conservation Partnership.

[0:16:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): These are all important agencies for collaborative advocacy that we work with.

[0:16:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Every year I go to the herring fest up to Hornby Denman and the place I look at is Lambert

[0:16:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Channel and Bay of Sound and the miracle of those herring returning depends entirely on

[0:16:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the on the ecosystem the ecology of that area. We had a BC coastal marine strategy presentation it

[0:17:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was and highlighted nine priorities for BC's first plan first plan ever for stewarding coastal waters

[0:17:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and chair Patrick subsequently wrote a letter to the minister of water lands resource stewardship

[0:17:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): advocating that this strategy be enshrined into legislation. We had an island's trust policy

[0:17:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy statement amendment project update. It will be reviewed again in March 2027. This will be the

[0:17:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): eighth year of the policy statement project. Oh boy. We had a great presentation from the EDM

[0:17:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): My Sea to Sky, an organization that outlined the very serious issue of Hortus BC failing to meet

[0:17:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the conditions of its waste discharge permit for over a year, discharging up to double the

[0:17:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): volume of wastewater into Alcatsum, also called Howe Sound, and instead of fixing the problem,

[0:18:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): FortisBC asked for permission to continue and increase its discharge. Again, Chair Patrick

[0:18:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): wrote a letter stating our concern and then, but what happened that very same day?

[0:18:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They got permission to keep on polluting.

[0:18:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We cover planning services.

[0:18:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We do this every council meeting.

[0:18:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We have a really good quarterly update with all of our planning departments.

[0:18:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And interestingly, over the last four years since COVID, application volumes have followed

[0:18:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a less predictable pattern.

[0:18:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They remain relatively high, but they fluctuate year to year.

[0:18:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Whereas during COVID, they were kind of going like this.

[0:18:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): As per usual, Salt Spring, North Pender and Gabriola show the highest number of development applications.

[0:18:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And the highlight, of course, the Islands Trust Community Stewardship Awards.

[0:19:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): These are bestowed the last year of a Council's term.

[0:19:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And this year saw five individuals and two organizations receive those awards.

[0:19:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And of course, we've already talked about Gabriola's Breaking Bannock Program,

[0:19:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and initiative of the Gabriel Arts Council,

[0:19:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): being the recipient of one of the organization awards.

[0:19:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): These awards mean a lot, not just to the recipient,

[0:19:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but to the communities where they work,

[0:19:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because they take on projects that sometimes take many years

[0:19:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the benefit of their community and the trust area.

[0:19:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I believe the awards will be given out at our September 3rd

[0:19:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): local trust committee meeting, I think.

[0:19:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think that's what I've heard from Chloe Straw, that we will actually be able to honor

[0:19:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the recipient, I believe, at our next LTC meeting.

[0:19:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm looking forward to that.

[0:19:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So May 27th, both Trustee Elliott and I are on the Financial Planning Committee.

[0:19:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Highlights were approving the draft budget assumptions, which I mentioned above, as being

[0:20:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they also have to be approved by Trust Council.

[0:20:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Council, working on increasing development application fees so that they are more in

[0:20:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): line with other local governments, we are way behind, thus lessening the burden on local

[0:20:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): taxpayers.

[0:20:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We had discussion and recommendations to Council for a reserve fund for costs that we expect

[0:20:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regularly but not every year.

[0:20:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): For example, election expenses, they only happen every four years.

[0:20:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So instead of forking out $400,000 in this budget year, we need to be spreading that out over four years.

[0:20:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): On June 3rd, I had a meeting with the Ferry Hill Trail Planning Group, four members of the Gabriela Transportation Society, MLA Sheila Malcolmson, Director Vanessa Craig, Chamber Executive Director Erin Udall at that time,

[0:20:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Planners Stephen Bough from Gabriola, RDN Parks Lead Amy Gore and MOTT rep Nikki Schneider

[0:21:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to discuss the issues connected with the multi-use trail we so desperately need from the very

[0:21:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the village.

[0:21:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Different trail configurations will be honed to determine what is most feasible and they'll

[0:21:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be brought back to the same working group and by the end of this year a plan is expected

[0:21:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for presentation to the whole community.

[0:21:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be. June 21st, I attended an amazing Salt Spring Forum. I'm a member of the Salt Spring

[0:21:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Forum, and I try to get to about half of them. The title was, you were there, right? Who's

[0:21:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Afraid of Drippa? And actually, we didn't talk that much about Drippa. It was so good,

[0:21:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): though. It was a riveting session on national, it was on National Indigenous People's Day.

[0:21:43] Voice 8: Perfect.

[0:21:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): First Nation Land Title Negotiator and former MLA Adam Olson, who's a great speaker.

[0:21:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): From 2017 to 2024, Adam Olson was a key voice in our legislature on reconciliation, land use, environmental stewardship, and democratic reform.

[0:22:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): He offers deeply informed insights into how co-governance can and must work in B.C.

[0:22:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): He elaborated on his assertion that a manufactured crisis has been created by political pundits in response to recent court cases.

[0:22:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): places. Everyone in the audience was alerted by his comments on the historical policy that

[0:22:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Indigenous people have no right to their land. This is a policy that has created destructive

[0:22:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): outcomes for 175 years. I think George Abbott talks about that in his book too, Unseated.

[0:22:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's an amazing book. He held that book up, as you did at our last meeting.

[0:22:43] Voice 8: Susan yeah

[0:22:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just a quick note as an aside um uh trustee Ken Hunter of Thetis right held up that

[0:22:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): book at the Thetis local trust committee meeting

[0:22:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and said amazing everyone should read that and I

[0:22:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was like really wow I know okay yeah everyone should read that everyone should read that if

[0:23:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Ken Hunter from Thetis says yeah you betcha you betcha and and Adam Olson said that that policy

[0:23:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): has made us all a lesser society. And I really, I really appreciate that. And so July 5th was the

[0:23:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Snenema Blanketing Ceremony at the museum. And Trustee Elliott has already talked about that.

[0:23:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It was very beautiful. We were honored to be in the presence of those six recipients and the

[0:23:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Snenema First Nation elders who bestowed the blankets and words of recognition for the community

[0:23:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): members' achievements. A blanketing ceremony shows respect and loving care for those who

[0:23:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have contributed in significant ways over a long period of time to their community.

[0:23:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And you could really feel that loving care during this. So coming up soon, annual Aqua Chautauqua

[0:23:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): at the Gabriel Commons, August 1st, a gathering of environmental activists focusing on a hopeful

[0:24:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): future for the Salish Sea this year, the Islands Trust Conservancy, and both Trustee Elliott and I

[0:24:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are board members on that conservancy, we have been asked to participate in this cross-border

[0:24:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): event. So we have people coming from the whole San Juan area as well, celebrating the bounty and the

[0:24:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): beauty of the Salish Sea. Coming up soon with great thanks to Sustainable Gabriola's formidable

[0:24:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): minimal outreach efforts and a great newsletter that comes online every few weeks they help they

[0:24:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have been helping to promote our local trust committee activities on gabriela including

[0:24:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): public participation for the draft official community plan they've been really helpful

[0:24:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with that and soon we hope uh the first reading of our ocp they'll be they'll be bringing that

[0:24:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to their members as well um their newsletter this week highlights uh the gabriola talks

[0:25:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which is a a small group of totally non-partisan members in our community who also helped do our

[0:25:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any political meetings they often uh post them yeah the candidates debate yeah so this coming

[0:25:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): up soon thursday july 23rd 6 30 at the rollo center gabriola talks water so gabriela talks

[0:25:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is hosting a series of cafes on issues that are relevant to our draft OCP.

[0:25:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So good on them.

[0:25:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The only thing we need to do is attend if we wish to.

[0:25:35] Voice 6: What was that date, Susan?

[0:25:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): July 23rd is the first one.

[0:25:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Thursday, 6.30 at the Rollo Center.

[0:25:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I believe our sound or newspaper has ads every time.

[0:25:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The next one will be Sunday, August 9th,

[0:25:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that will be on housing and density and the third one will be on reconciliation i don't have a date

[0:25:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for that yet sometime in september way to go sustainable gabriela and gabriela talks

[0:26:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's it for my report thank you

[0:26:08] Voice 11: busy trustees again the community is very well represented

[0:26:13] Voice 11: it's very hard working trustees and i really appreciate these

[0:26:16] Voice 3: records um

[0:26:18] Voice 6: my report is very

[0:26:19] Voice 6: very short. There's a couple of meeting dates coming up. July 22nd, the Trust Council is going

[0:26:26] Voice 6: to have a Committee of the Whole meeting. It's related to the draft trust policy statement,

[0:26:35] Voice 6: but the meeting is focused

[0:26:35] Voice 11: on the agency

[0:26:37] Voice 6: referrals. So their first

[0:26:40] Voice 11: reading, it was

[0:26:40] Voice 11: distributed

[0:26:41] Voice 6: to a number of agencies, regional districts, other governments, our own provincial

[0:26:47] Voice 6: provincial government.

[0:26:49] Voice 6: So this meeting is about really understanding,

[0:26:51] Voice 6: digging into those referral responses that we got.

[0:26:55] Voice 6: We won't be making changes to the document

[0:26:58] Voice 6: for the remainder of the term,

[0:26:59] Voice 6: but it's still understanding and what is the perspective.

[0:27:05] Voice 6: The next press council meeting is September 9 to 11.

[0:27:11] Voice 6: Public comment period typically almost always

[0:27:15] Voice 6: on the first day.

[0:27:15] Voice 6: so that would be September 9. You are interested, you or an organization wishes to give a delegation

[0:27:23] Voice 6: three weeks in advance of the 9th is the deadline for making a request for that,

[0:27:28] Voice 6: but otherwise the public comment period is just, it'll be available online. You don't have to go

[0:27:32] Voice 6: to any meeting. It's a virtual meeting. You can talk to us virtually, which is nice. You don't

[0:27:37] Voice 6: have to travel. And hopefully we have attendees in attendance at both of those meetings.

[0:27:45] Voice 6: well you know two of them are going to be there three of us

[0:27:48] Voice 3: you'll

[0:27:50] Voice 6: be well represented yeah okay

[0:27:53] Voice 6: um i'm going to

[0:27:54] Voice 11: carry on then uh vanessa craig is not she didn't send a report she

[0:27:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): did it was

[0:28:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): last minute early this morning and i

[0:28:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): confess i have not had time to read it

[0:28:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be so large

[0:28:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i could read out a few notes because

[0:28:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): her reports are great they are great and we

[0:28:13] Voice 11: work

[0:28:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): closely with our regional director we have to because we don't do any service stuff

[0:28:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's lots of things we need to work together sorry just bringing it up here

[0:28:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh yeah so just for the record um so she reported out at the june 23rd board meeting they received

[0:28:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the regional brown level groundwater level analysis for the pre-summer season i think

[0:28:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that was reported in the sounder um and there's a series of reports under the agenda item 10.3

[0:28:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um well historic groundwater levels and the observation wells for aquifer range from stable

[0:28:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to moderate decline with one increase the observation wells this year are overall below

[0:28:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): normal uh so i think that's been reported in the sounder um there was a grant they granted

[0:29:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the statutory right-of-way in the 707th Park to BC Hydro in Patelis. This is part

[0:29:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the Hydro Transmission Infrastructure Project, currently happening as part of the BC Ferry

[0:29:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Electrification Project. BC Hydro will cover all the costs of establishing this statutory

[0:29:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right-of-way. The addition of a multi-purpose recreation facility to the feasibility studies

[0:29:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): scope of the Parks and Recreation project. So this year that comprehensive plan is now

[0:29:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): adding into scope the feasibility of establishing a sports field in Gabriola. This project was

[0:29:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): always considered to be linked with the multi-purpose recreation facility project and both of these

[0:29:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): were identified as priorities in the Area B Parks and Trails Master Plan.

[0:30:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): motion to work on these projects together was recently supported by the board. The budget for

[0:30:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the feasibility study is $232,892 funded by Growing Communities Funds, which is funding

[0:30:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provided by the province to local government for infrastructure. Yay. Green burial projects.

[0:30:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Really interesting to note and we should keep this in mind as we get into our OCP discussion.

[0:30:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Another parks project is examining the feasibility of the RDN,

[0:30:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): assisting the Gabriel Island Memorial Society in acquiring land for a green burial cemetery.

[0:30:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we've got some proposed policies in the CP draft. Use of AI. The RDN board supported receiving a report on the current use of generative AI within the RDN

[0:30:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and to develop draft policy options for the use of AI for the board's consideration.

[0:30:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So as local governments, we're all watching what other local governments are doing.

[0:30:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): some are very shouldn't comment on it sorry that's her report community grants um congratulations to

[0:31:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the gabriel island community hall association and the mudge island citizen society mix who are each

[0:31:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): awarded five thousand dollars in arnean community grants for their proposed projects the community

[0:31:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hall will restore the fur floor and mix we use the funds to construct a sister shelter

[0:31:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): two more things um electoral area service committee received a verbal and written report

[0:31:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): from christina the executive director for people of a healthy committee which holds a contract for

[0:31:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): providing the health and well-being service on gabriola and then finally minister britney

[0:31:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anderson's visit to gabriola um she has delighted to have the opportunity to organize a tour for

[0:31:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Brittany Anderson, Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities of BC.

[0:31:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): This is a very unique position. The minister doesn't have a portfolio other than being a liaison

[0:31:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for local communities up to the provincial government. So she represents Nelson in the

[0:32:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Kootenays area and so she came for a tour with MLA Sheila Malcolmson and they visited the Ferry

[0:32:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hill project uh the gertie they were chauffeured by gertie stopped at huxley park to have a tour

[0:32:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the park highlighting skate park went to paisley place and had a tour of some of the houses

[0:32:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i went to the ambulance station and then the final stop was at the commons and phc's

[0:32:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): facilities so and then she's got a list of the next meetings so the next one is rdm's regular

[0:32:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): board meeting is on July 28th. Thank you.

[0:32:42] Voice 8: Thank you. You

[0:32:44] Voice 11: did, Vanessa, right? Again,

[0:32:47] Voice 11: powerful team here for Gabriel. Are there

[0:32:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any First Nations reports that you've covered?

[0:32:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I did, I can share, I did have a meeting with one council member and some of their staff from

[0:33:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the lands team to sort of talk about conservancy's work and really linking them with our staff

[0:33:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to talk about how monitoring and um like they're they're very actually interested in brickyard

[0:33:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): beach and and the clown bed that's called the bar so staff may want to follow up directly with

[0:33:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): their new LANDS director Wolfgang, well sorry that's LANDS but they yeah so I

[0:33:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): can I can follow up with you but they're they're interested in managing and

[0:33:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): advancing conversations about the clan beds

[0:33:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and they routinely monitor those

[0:33:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): waters for compliance. One of the conversations that came up at Ocean's

[0:33:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): day was to actually request reports because they do regular testing of water quality and

[0:34:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and the mussels like the shellfish and they send those to DFO and those reports could come to our

[0:34:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): LTC agendas potentially for our community's information so they're actively monitoring

[0:34:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the marine and foreshore and I think folks every summer get concerned when we see harvesting

[0:34:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): harvesting not knowing is this you know is this permitted do we need more signage so there is a

[0:34:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): conversation about signage education and then bringing information back about uh the the health

[0:34:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the the clan bed so um that was sort of a i don't know if that qualifies as a first nation

[0:34:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): report but i'm trying to talk um talk to somebody who may be able to get some reports for our

[0:34:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): agendas so yeah that would be really helpful to have those dmv reports because a year ago we had

[0:34:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): someone from a member of the public requesting that we look into brickyard beach and the health

[0:34:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of brickyard beach and could we

[0:35:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): find out any information about brickyard beach and we really

[0:35:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): didn't get anywhere did we i

[0:35:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): mean i know you asked i know staff did ask um so maybe if the marine

[0:35:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): division of SNNIMC can help us get those reports and then just have them as a regular addition

[0:35:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you

[0:35:17] Voice 8: know to our agenda

[0:35:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that would be really helpful

[0:35:18] Voice 8: yeah

[0:35:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well that sub area 17 is one that

[0:35:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is routinely monitored I've done I've learned a lot about a little monitoring it's done in other

[0:35:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): areas so we're super lucky but I think my understanding is they provide the test the

[0:35:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): reporting or materials to dfo for testing and then that information that comes back could be

[0:35:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): made available on our agendas so that that's that great

[0:35:47] Voice 11: thank you very much all right we are now at

[0:35:50] Voice 6: the public comment period as chair my responsibility to share with the local trustees is to ensure that

[0:35:58] Voice 6: this meeting is a respectful inclusive and culturally safe space for everyone

[0:36:02] Voice 6: one. This means that we will speak respectfully, we will acknowledge concerns and questions without

[0:36:08] Voice 6: causing harm, and we uphold cultural safety. We will keep this conversation constructive and

[0:36:17] Voice 6: I want to thank everyone in advance for helping us to create a respectful and

[0:36:22] Voice 11: productive environment

[0:36:23] Voice 11: in which all participants feel safe, valued, and able to participate fully. The public comment

[0:36:30] Voice 11: Comment

[0:36:30] Voice 6: period is your opportunity to speak.

[0:36:32] Voice 6: We do want to hear your questions and comments at this time.

[0:36:34] Voice 6: Later in the agenda, we will be discussing various topics and making decisions.

[0:36:39] Voice 6: Your questions and comments are valued, and they help us make good decisions.

[0:36:44] Voice 6: Some of you may have questions about some recent court cases,

[0:36:47] Voice 6: court decisions.

[0:36:49] Voice 6: Please understand, we will do our best

[0:36:51] Voice 11: to answer questions,

[0:36:52] Voice 11: but things are before courts, so we will be limiting some of our answers.

[0:37:00] Voice 6: If you are an applicant, you will have time to talk about your application later in the

[0:37:07] Voice 6: agenda.

[0:37:09] Voice 6: If you have comments about an application, this is the time we want to hear from you.

[0:37:16] Voice 6: When addressing the local trust committee, we request that you direct your comments to

[0:37:21] Voice 6: to the three of us, not the audience or staff.

[0:37:26] Voice 6: Speak about issues, not individuals.

[0:37:29] Voice 6: Be clear, concise, and respectful as I know you will be.

[0:37:33] Voice 6: We do not clap, we do not boo.

[0:37:35] Voice 6: We want everyone to feel comfortable

[0:37:37] Voice 6: to when they're speaking that we're listening to them.

[0:37:41] Voice 6: So with that, I open up the public comment period.

[0:37:45] Voice 6: I'm not gonna run a timer,

[0:37:47] Voice 6: but I may ask you to wrap up if you're carrying on.

[0:37:51] Voice 6: and uh and if you could just begin by stating your name so how many would like to talk to us today

[0:37:56] Voice 6: i see a few all right i'm going to start in the back and come forward if that's okay

[0:38:03] Voice 6: so let me start in the back hi

[0:38:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): my name is sybil trey and uh today i'm speaking as a board member

[0:38:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and the president of the gabriel island land stewards society and we appreciate being able

[0:38:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to live and do our volunteer work and appear on the territory of the same information.

[0:38:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We will be preparing a formal submission on the draft OCP by the July 31st deadline,

[0:38:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but we need more time for the deeper conversation, particularly about the flexible housing

[0:38:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions, looking at different lot sizes, the concept of a total maximum floor area,

[0:38:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the identification of freshwater hazard areas and specifics on agricultural land.

[0:38:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I can talk about some other things,

[0:38:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): try to get sort of ahead of the ball a little bit.

[0:38:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We have a meeting set up for before the end of the month and we will be providing a formal report,

[0:39:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): including covering those issues at that point.

[0:39:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But this is what I can raise right now.

[0:39:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm just hopefully that's helpful in your process because I know you're doing a lot of work on the

[0:39:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): official community plan and keeping on working on the changes so that

[0:39:17] Voice 10: you're ready for the first readings.

[0:39:19] Voice 10: So

[0:39:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the first one is in policies 2.3.1.1 and 2.4.3.10 and

[0:39:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's when they're both talking about the secondary commercial nodes and

[0:39:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And what we're just recommending is that you develop a clear and transparent process for designating what are those secondary commercial nodes so that people know ahead of time what that might look like, what is needed for it to be considered a secondary commercial node.

[0:39:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The second one is Policy 2.8, which is the Temporary Use Permit Policies.

[0:40:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And we're actually looking at, rather than removing all exemptions from the Official Community Plan,

[0:40:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we'd like to encourage you to add a section that makes it clear that farmers are exempt from reapplying for a GDP after three years,

[0:40:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and exempt from any limit in a number of years they have a temporary use permit as long as they

[0:40:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): maintain farm status and really the rationale behind that is often it makes it possible for

[0:40:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): some people to be able to afford to farm you know the i've lived in a lot of farming communities

[0:40:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where they talk about somebody in family has an off-farm job in order to afford to keep the farm

[0:40:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): money so being able to have a secondary housing that they can rent that's another way to have

[0:40:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that income coming in to help support the farm and we really feel we need this kind of incentive

[0:41:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to increase food security on the areola and such a farming specific advantage would be

[0:41:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could be part of future proofing the OCP and one thing we're not sure about is how to distinguish

[0:41:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): between farmers who are growing food

[0:41:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and people who are just growing hay.

[0:41:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So if you have ideas about how that,

[0:41:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because it's really about food security,

[0:41:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): growing food and helping farmers be able to do that.

[0:41:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then the last thing is to add a definition

[0:41:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of what small scale secondary commercial uses are.

[0:41:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that's in quality 2.2.5.9.

[0:41:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just again if there's clarity around what that is that would be really helpful thank you very much

[0:41:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just a quick question while you're here sybil and while we have our ocb planner

[0:42:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): planner chadwick here normally we use temporary use permits for a temporary thing and they can be

[0:42:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know renewed a couple times and then and and then at that point if it looks like that thing

[0:42:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should be permanent um usually the applicant applies for rezoning so that then the public

[0:42:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): has a say yeah okay this is good and going for six years should be permanent so um i have a question

[0:42:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for planner chadwick if there's some kind of exemption from the temporary reuse thing for

[0:42:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something that really probably shouldn't be temporary how do we deal with that um you know

[0:42:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if they're doing state right up front maybe this should be a different zone or just uh any ideas

[0:42:50] Voice 8: so

[0:42:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i mean just sort of my top of mind thoughts on this i think it uh it might be challenging to put

[0:42:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a policy that would exempt the the process with respect to this and um is that it the temporary

[0:43:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use permit is essentially an opportunity to test drive and use and if the uses seem to be fine

[0:43:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): then uh then it's a rezoning and it can be an ltc uh driven or supported rezoning so it doesn't

[0:43:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): necessarily require a rezoning um application um i mean we can we can have a look at this but um

[0:43:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i mean i think there may be a challenge with putting a policy for exemptions

[0:43:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because you don't have that opportunity to sort of revisit the use and make whatever kind of changes you may want to make to the use to enable it to be permanent.

[0:43:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So, I mean, it's worth thinking about, but I think there may be a challenge with putting a policy specifically to that.

[0:43:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): May I respond?

[0:43:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Thank you, sure.

[0:43:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So one concern we would have is if you have to rezone in order to have it permanent, then the zoning changes for the land, whether you're farming or not.

[0:44:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And we're wanting to see that this extended temporary lease permit or whatever is the appropriate mechanism is only if you're farming.

[0:44:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't know how you do that.

[0:44:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Changing the zone might make that difficult.

[0:44:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So, yeah, I mean, I think there could be ways with the rezoning to specify that it is a use that is supporting farming or is related to farming.

[0:44:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But that would be something. But again, I think that would be something that you'd have to kind of figure out when you get to that place of deciding that it should be a permanent use.

[0:44:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um yeah and then how expensive is it for a farmer to go through that rezoning process well like i

[0:45:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): say if it's something that the community wants and that the local trust committee is supportive of

[0:45:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it can be a local trust committee uh project essentially thank

[0:45:11] Voice 11: you for raising that these

[0:45:12] Voice 11: are good good things to think of that's uh was there someone else in the back row that wanted

[0:45:17] Voice 11: to speak to us there so i'm going to move to the center i think a couple of hands up here in the

[0:45:22] Voice 11: the center row. Go ahead.

[0:45:24] Voice 10: Yeah, I'm Rob Stevenson. I'm one of the trustees of the

[0:45:28] Voice 10: Bigola Commons. And I am working on the covenant. The reason I

[0:45:36] Voice 10: will bring up here is because we are asking the trust to service

[0:45:39] Voice 10: the covenant folder. And that covenant folder actually holds

[0:45:43] Voice 10: the account of the promises we're making to be stewards of

[0:45:47] Voice 10: the covenant. So there's a number of specifics on this

[0:45:53] Voice 10: that we're going to go through, but we have a draft covenant that's nearly finalized, and we've

[0:46:01] Voice 10: made some of the admissions about that. In fact, previously the Commons was strictly for non-profit

[0:46:09] Voice 10: activities, but we also recognize that there's some for-profit activities that happen in the

[0:46:14] Voice 10: Commons. We welcome that as long as it's consistent with stewardship of the environment and agriculture.

[0:46:19] Voice 10: culture. Examples of for-profit things would be local positions or the circumspects of

[0:46:26] Voice 10: that sort of thing. It's not big business. Part of the covenant is kind of a bit of a

[0:46:35] Voice 10: tentacle approach, where there's a stewardship plan of how we're going to maintain that

[0:46:41] Voice 10: stewardship and also an ongoing reporting function back to the covenant holder,

[0:46:46] Voice 10: are effectively to hold us to account when it comes to linking and the idea on that spiritual

[0:46:52] Voice 10: report is that there are statistically measurable parameters to justify that better of the process

[0:46:58] Voice 10: versus the millionth direction and so those we're trying to be as descriptive in general

[0:47:04] Voice 10: but not what we think is possible in terms of all these documents and these will be ready

[0:47:10] Voice 10: for the Audit's trust review prior to the September 3rd meeting, and hopefully this will clarify the roles and responsibilities of the covenant holder that you requested.

[0:47:22] Voice 10: We also would ask for a meeting prior to that time, looking at specifically what the, what are the goals, and specifically what the covenant holder would be.

[0:47:34] Voice 10: We're part of the land reserve and we have a deadline of next July to submit all these

[0:47:42] Voice 10: documents and have all the keys crossed and I started and so we have basically been there

[0:47:49] Voice 10: to do that.

[0:47:49] Voice 10: There's a series of reviews we've gone back and forth with Steve, but we have a timeline

[0:47:58] Voice 10: that's doable.

[0:47:58] Voice 10: but tight. So we'll get these documents to the LTC as quickly as we can, if we have time for review before then.

[0:48:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Just one quick question, Rob. Thank you. You're looking for a meeting prior to September 3rd. Did you mean a meeting with the staff?

[0:48:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, Toby actually volunteered a meeting with one of you.

[0:48:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): oh okay trustees yeah because I think the discussion about what was lacking in

[0:48:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): stewardship plan part of the submission last time was not clear to you and we

[0:48:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): want to know what you want and she recommended that so I realized how busy

[0:48:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you are having just heard your reports but just even half an hour of being

[0:48:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): specific would be very helpful so that way you would get what you want can we

[0:48:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Can we help staff support that meeting because that would be good to, if we're talking roles and responsibilities, to understand, be very clear about what the LTC can and can't do, so that I'm not promising or under-delivering on the potential to be a covenant holder.

[0:49:16] Voice 9: Yeah, I think we can find a time that that's

[0:49:22] Voice 10: possible.

[0:49:23] Voice 10: Yeah. Thank you. Great. Thank

[0:49:28] Voice 11: you so much.

[0:49:31] Voice 11: I mean, someone else in the middle row first, in the middle row.

[0:49:36] Voice 11: I'll start in the front row, and I know I saw you had your hand up.

[0:49:40] Voice 7: Yes, I just wanted to, first of all, thank you for the decorum with which you operate these meetings.

[0:49:48] Voice 7: it's appreciated and I also want to thank you all of you and our nominator Catherine Malloy

[0:49:55] Voice 7: for the community stewardship award just a note of interest based on both of the trustees

[0:50:03] Voice 7: reports is that it's my understanding unfortunately now breaking banning but

[0:50:10] Voice 7: another impartial non-partisan organization here on Gabriela is planning on having

[0:50:16] Voice 7: having former MLA Adam Olson come and speak on, in particular, the Cowichan decision,

[0:50:26] Voice 7: which I think will be very, very interesting for we Islanders.

[0:50:32] Voice 7: I've heard Adam speak previously, and he's very articulate.

[0:50:37] Voice 7: He was actually speaking with former legal minister.

[0:50:45] Voice 7: justice justice justice no no

[0:50:49] Voice 7: ag former ag andrew petter and um jeff plant and they presented a

[0:50:56] Voice 7: wonderful wonderful presentation on all of the court cases so i am i can't speak on behalf of

[0:51:02] Voice 7: the organization that is planning that but they're looking at something for september and i think

[0:51:07] Voice 7: that'll be interesting for many many gabriel's and with respect to unseated i also have purchased a

[0:51:14] Voice 7: copy of that and there is some hope that at some point we can bring george abbott to um our island

[0:51:22] Voice 7: to speak on it mind you we're a small island and he is treaty commissioner so you know it's not a

[0:51:28] Voice 7: sure thing but it's one of the things that islanders are interested in i just wanted to

[0:51:32] Voice 7: share that thank you thank you i

[0:51:34] Voice 11: very much

[0:51:35] Voice 6: appreciate uh hermalade adam olson he is

[0:51:38] Voice 6: very very articulate and he's really getting himself out there coming to the communities

[0:51:44] Voice 6: He came to Salt Spring,

[0:51:45] Voice 11: and he just really speaks to all of us, answers questions, and just brings calm and level-headedness to these conversations.

[0:51:54] Voice 11: So I'm glad that he'll be able to come.

[0:51:59] Voice 11: Thank you.

[0:52:00] Voice 11: All right.

[0:52:01] Voice 4: Thank you.

[0:52:03] Voice 4: My name is Dennis Hoy.

[0:52:07] Voice 4: I live at 3395 South Road, Silver Bay, next door to Silver Bay Resort.

[0:52:12] Voice 4: I am here today to express my support for Silver Bay Resort and to speak about the very important

[0:52:19] Voice 4: issue of water service. My family has been part of the Silver Bay community for a long time.

[0:52:26] Voice 4: We purchased our property in 1960 and I built my home in 1983. For more than 43 years I have

[0:52:35] Voice 4: received water at the grace of probably four owners of Silver Bay Resort. Now after all these

[0:52:42] Voice 4: years I'm facing the possibility of losing access to that water service. Like many others I'm deeply

[0:52:48] Voice 4: concerned. Water is not a luxury, it is essential to our daily lives. My hope is that we can find

[0:52:56] Voice 4: solutions that protect the people who have relied on this system for decades while also addressing

[0:53:02] Voice 4: the concerns that have been raised. When this issue arose I wanted to better understand what

[0:53:09] Voice 4: the Gabriel community thought about the future of Silver Bay, Silver Bay Resort that is. I took

[0:53:17] Voice 4: the Silver Bay petition to two Saturday markets and one Sunday market next door to Silver Bay

[0:53:23] Voice 4: and spoke directly with residents of Gabriel. I personally collected 138 signatures from

[0:53:30] Voice 4: Gabriel residents who expressed their support in seeing development move forward at Silver Bay.

[0:53:36] Voice 4: Since then, I understand that more than 1,400 people have signed in support of Silver Bay

[0:53:43] Voice 4: Resort.

[0:53:44] Voice 4: What stood out to me the most was not only the strong support for the resort, but also

[0:53:51] Voice 4: the desire for a more collaborative approach to resolving the challenges.

[0:53:56] Voice 4: Many residents told me they would like to see greater cooperation among all parties

[0:54:01] Voice 4: involved.

[0:54:02] Voice 4: involved. They express concerns about resources being spent on disputes and legal proceedings

[0:54:08] Voice 4: when those same efforts might be better directed towards finding practical solutions that benefit

[0:54:14] Voice 4: the entire community. I believe it is fair to ask whether there is an opportunity for

[0:54:20] Voice 4: greater dialogue and mediation as we move forward. We are all members of the same community.

[0:54:26] Voice 4: We all care about Gabriela Island and want what is best for its residents.

[0:54:33] Voice 4: Lasting solutions are found when people come together and they listen respectfully and work toward shared goals.

[0:54:41] Voice 4: Island Trust is made up of elected representatives, and their important role is to listen to the community,

[0:54:48] Voice 4: balance diverse interests, and help guide solutions that serve the public good.

[0:54:55] Voice 4: The message I heard at those markets was clear.

[0:54:57] Voice 4: People want cooperation. They want progress. They want practical solutions that support residences, businesses, and the long-term future of Silver Bay.

[0:55:10] Voice 4: I have a heart in Silver Bay. I grew up there all my life. Water security is one of the most important issues any community can face.

[0:55:19] Voice 4: I believe we all share the same goal, to ensure reliable water access while creating

[0:55:26] Voice 4: a positive path forward for everyone involved. Let us focus on working together to protect water

[0:55:33] Voice 4: access, support our neighbours and build a future in which Silver Bay Resort and the surrounding

[0:55:40] Voice 4: community can continue to thrive. Thank you for your time and your commitment to our community.

[0:55:51] Voice 8: Quick

[0:55:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): question. Thank you, Dennis.

[0:55:55] Voice 4: Thank you.

[0:55:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm not clear on the threat to your water supply.

[0:56:02] Voice 4: So Silver Bay, many years ago, Silver Bay Resort bought property 500 meters up the road

[0:56:09] Voice 4: on the opposite side of the road to the ocean, away from the saltwater.

[0:56:17] Voice 4: They had been piping water down to their resort all this time.

[0:56:22] Voice 4: you probably

[0:56:23] Voice 4: know that i

[0:56:23] Voice 8: do they

[0:56:25] Voice 4: crossed my property with their water line and when i built

[0:56:28] Voice 4: i said good neighbor policy don't move that line let me tap into your water supply and at their

[0:56:36] Voice 4: grace i have been getting very good water supply which we cherish which we don't waste which i have

[0:56:45] Voice 4: come up with different solutions to try and preserve the water for example i had a cedar

[0:56:51] Voice 4: a roof put a drinking roof a metal roof on which no one should argue about that i put cisterns in

[0:56:59] Voice 4: to collect especially in the winter so you can go through the drought

[0:57:05] Voice 4: i'm thinking that island trust could focus on you're focusing on water i'm looking at

[0:57:11] Voice 4: multiple water sources and one thing that we haven't really focused on is recycling gray water

[0:57:17] Voice 4: water. Any new construction should have no problem with a metal roof or some roof that you can

[0:57:23] Voice 4: collect water with cisterns being built into the project. If I was ever to rebuild, I'd be looking

[0:57:30] Voice 4: at collecting gray water and that would be my toilet water. And there's misinformation. And so

[0:57:38] Voice 4: I've heard that desalination is not an option. I don't know if that's true. And that's a question

[0:57:42] Voice 4: I have. Why can't we have a combination of efforts so that everybody works together? And

[0:57:48] Voice 4: And neighbors shouldn't be fighting neighbors.

[0:57:49] Voice 4: Neighbors should be helping neighbors.

[0:57:52] Voice 4: My example of that is I got a phone call from the float plane one day.

[0:57:56] Voice 4: Their float plane broke a rudder cable.

[0:57:59] Voice 4: They called me.

[0:58:00] Voice 4: There's a full complement of people on the float plane.

[0:58:02] Voice 4: It was drifting to the rocks.

[0:58:04] Voice 4: It was going to, there was going to be a problem.

[0:58:07] Voice 4: They called me.

[0:58:08] Voice 4: I had a Zodiac.

[0:58:08] Voice 4: It went out with my toolkit.

[0:58:10] Voice 4: I towed it away from the rocks.

[0:58:12] Voice 4: I did a temporary fix of their cable.

[0:58:15] Voice 4: They flew to Vancouver and got it fixed.

[0:58:18] Voice 4: Neighbours help neighbours, they don't fight neighbours.

[0:58:23] Voice 4: So

[0:58:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just can I follow up on the question,

[0:58:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because I want to focus on the point that you're making

[0:58:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about your water use, which I think you as a resident are entirely entitled to know,

[0:58:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and ask a question of staff. So in the Local Government Act Part 14, Non-conforming Uses,

[0:58:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the authority to continue use section 528 describes um when a land use bylaw is introduced

[0:58:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any uses that were prior to land use bylaw are able to be continued now i guess the question

[0:58:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is and i would invite you to actually have a meeting with staff to clarify whether a residential

[0:59:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of use that is tapped into that water supply if that has been continuous is probably i mean my

[0:59:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): reading of it is allowed to continue that is not under threat the the challenge is if a use is

[0:59:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): discontinued for more than six months that then is deemed no longer has that protection to be able

[0:59:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be non

[0:59:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): -conforming so this is called lawful non-conforming protection and so it's about

[0:59:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use like an activity that predated a land use bylaw or a structure on the land that predated

[0:59:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the land use bylaw and so i can't speak to the matters that are under uh you know before the

[0:59:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): courts right now um but i would invite you to talk to a planner about specifically whether

[0:59:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whether you're residential.

[1:00:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of that water is actually compromised because that may not be true

[1:00:04] Voice 4: we're

[1:00:06] Voice 4: taken so I should talk to the water

[1:00:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is

[1:00:11] Voice 4: coming from a well yeah which is

[1:00:15] Voice 4: residential it comes down to the commercial property and sits in their

[1:00:20] Voice 4: cisterns then comes down and I tap into it

[1:00:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's what you need to talk to a

[1:00:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): planner okay

[1:00:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so we can't give advice in this

[1:00:28] Voice 4: any particular planner well

[1:00:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): everyone sitting at this

[1:00:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): table is qualified and just and thank thank you trustee elliott i'm really glad you brought that

[1:00:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): up um the other point that you make about um collecting water and conserving water our draft

[1:00:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): official community plan has a lot of that

[1:00:49] Voice 8: in

[1:00:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it about how all new builds should require cisterns

[1:00:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all they potentially potentially yeah potentially it's a draft yeah um and whether or not it's

[1:01:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rainwater system is another question but we won't figure that all out but just have the system

[1:01:09] Voice 4: is there any talk about introducing collecting gray water and reusing that

[1:01:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's a different

[1:01:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's the island health department and yes we we talk about i talk about that a lot with

[1:01:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): friends and neighbors um the use of gray water is strictly governed by island health and there

[1:01:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are there definitely are households on gabriel that are making great use of their green water

[1:01:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's it's a system that have to be engineered engineered yeah but i i mean i i guess staff

[1:01:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): can answer to this but when we're creating when you draft policy and it has other regulationers

[1:01:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or other acts the policy will say for instance subject to the maintenance requirements of island

[1:01:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): health and so if there was a rainwater system i don't know if island health has like they received

[1:02:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): filings for those it would have to be it would have to be mandated out of that yeah but i think

[1:02:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's a good question like we can ask whether rainwater systems that would be following island

[1:02:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and health regulations could be part of the building doctor just yeah yeah i i so the

[1:02:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): green water system would i said that that would be related to building permit right so on whatever

[1:02:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): system you can go through um the uh the regional district's processes to ensure that it's something

[1:02:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so um they would have their checks and balances related to other other jurisdictions so uh that's

[1:02:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it would be it would be a difficult thing for the island's trust to it's not it's it's the

[1:02:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regulation of um of the gray water system would be outside the requirement of it i think is for

[1:02:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for um residential single residential with we don't really have tools to require i mean there

[1:03:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): may be an opportunity in like, for example, development permit

[1:03:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): area is to

[1:03:14] Voice 10: care for multi unit, but I'm not sure whether that

[1:03:22] Voice 10: would, whether it could apply to

[1:03:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): everyone. So it's, it's, it's

[1:03:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): kind of unfortunate. And then there's nothing that would be

[1:03:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): stopping and going from telling it um themselves but but it would be a challenge there are there

[1:03:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): aren't tools available to the

[1:03:44] Voice 10: island's trust to be able to require it but

[1:03:49] Voice 4: someone that already has

[1:03:50] Voice 4: a building there could look at creating a grey water system to operate their toilets and reuse

[1:03:58] Voice 4: that water

[1:03:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so that could be an option though because there's nothing in our advocacy section

[1:04:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about encouraging um actually about water use there there's probably a section needed in the

[1:04:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): back which 4.4 this advocacy so maybe we can bullet that for conversation later um advocating

[1:04:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to other agencies and that you know working towards building permits should encourage or

[1:04:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something about community education water

[1:04:32] Voice 4: it'd be great to have some sort of a plan that would

[1:04:34] Voice 4: have sort of a route for an owner of property right now to change over to that if there was

[1:04:42] Voice 4: some way of doing that fairly simply i mean i think it's just it's plumbing and so i think

[1:04:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you have to talk to folks who there's a balance of regulating too much versus you know landowners

[1:04:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): choosing to do what they what they want and so we can have a conversation about what policy can set

[1:05:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): out in terms of encouraging um certain activities uh that's what advocacy is for but we're the the

[1:05:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): real live conversation i think for this ltc is how do we regulate what's strictly required to

[1:05:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regulate what is what might we regulate and what is going to be you know quite onerous for property

[1:05:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): owners so

[1:05:22] Voice 4: i cringe every time we flush the toilet with good water i'm down here so on the other hand

[1:05:27] Voice 4: there what about desalination there's misinformation yeah there's

[1:05:31] Voice 4: a lot of information i'd like to talk

[1:05:33] Voice 4: to that in a moment but what about desalination someone says it's not allowed on gabriel it's not

[1:05:39] Voice 4: loud here can anyone tell me what's what's sexual a little

[1:05:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bit of history maybe chair patrick you

[1:05:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know better but the the proposed ban on desalination plants which came out of the

[1:05:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): previous trust council's term in regard to the policy statement draft so this draft is not yet

[1:05:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): law so it's not a bylaw so the policy statement is the motherhood statement for all of our

[1:06:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): communities ocps and in the previous iteration there was a conversation about banning desalination

[1:06:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): plants that went out to the public for public comment and there was a very strong reaction

[1:06:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): against it and i don't believe that's not in this that's not made it into the current draft

[1:06:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and so there's and i don't know maybe staff can say if there's any ban on there isn't a ban on

[1:06:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): desalination plants in in our current OCP or in the ones that were considered this doesn't speak to the building at all.

[1:06:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that

[1:06:40] Voice 4: an option because the Caribbean uses that.

[1:06:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Dubai is entirely like it gets its water from Dubai.

[1:06:49] Voice 4: So

[1:06:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's nothing in our documents that that is banning or prohibiting that.

[1:06:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Just so maybe to help wrap it up, but the point is Silva Bay Resorts has not made an application.

[1:07:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the islands trust when they make an application despite all the public information out there but

[1:07:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what they want to do there is no application when they make an application if they do they

[1:07:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could suggest anything just as what you've talked about any of those possibilities

[1:07:21] Voice 3: it

[1:07:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would then be

[1:07:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): discussed with the planners to see what's possible it isn't it would then probably come to a community

[1:07:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the information meeting and at some point it would there would be a public hearing to see

[1:07:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if this community wants whatever it is they propose to do all of their proposals are plans

[1:07:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that have never been never come to us there we have nothing to work with the only thing that

[1:07:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we've ever had to work with with silver bay resorts is the small boat ways that replaced

[1:07:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): place the large boat ways a few months ago and we happily approved because we had an application

[1:08:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so and my understanding is the zoning is there for most of the activities that are so I don't

[1:08:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): even know what an application even and if they can do everything within the zone

[1:08:18] Voice 9: well yeah we could look we have a penchant to propose I suppose but but yeah if it's

[1:08:23] Voice 9: is consistent with the zoning then it's likely a building permit if there's any development permit

[1:08:28] Voice 9: areas there might be in the marine area there i don't know if it is on the land then we might

[1:08:32] Voice 9: see a development permit as well but um

[1:08:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah it's up to them to come up with ways to produce enough

[1:08:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water to supply whatever it is they want to do without compromising the people who live there

[1:08:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all right wait wait for plans thank you was there something in the

[1:08:53] Voice 11: front row that wanted to speak

[1:08:58] Voice 11: Anyone else today?

[1:09:03] Voice 4: Suggestion?

[1:09:04] Voice 4: Sure.

[1:09:07] Voice 4: There seems to be, where is it here?

[1:09:10] Voice 4: Gabriel Island, home of misinformation, island of rumors.

[1:09:16] Voice 4: So that's just my interpretation.

[1:09:19] Voice 4: Of course, could Island Trust, on your information to the public,

[1:09:25] Voice 4: make it as simple and easy as possible and take out all the 10 cent words

[1:09:30] Voice 4: and just leave the $1.49 words and be point specific so that, I don't know, a grade six or

[1:09:38] Voice 4: seven year old can read it and understand it. And we can take away points, you know,

[1:09:42] Voice 4: the important things. And it's just seen this as so much misinformation. And

[1:09:48] Voice 4: that's part of the

[1:09:49] Voice 4: island. That's just a...

[1:09:53] Voice 6: Well, thank you. I think there's some stiff competition as to which island

[1:09:57] Voice 6: the islands trust is uh it's sort of a time to get the staff

[1:10:05] Voice 3: it's

[1:10:06] Voice 6: the time i think we all agree communications needs to be better tell you the trustees and staff

[1:10:12] Voice 6: are i think that's one of the positions that was funded this year as a manager of communications

[1:10:17] Voice 6: and really upping that that that is the antidote to this misinformation period that we are finding

[1:10:24] Voice 6: ourselves in is we have to get better at communicating clearly

[1:10:28] Voice 3: so yes

[1:10:30] Voice 6: so we agree

[1:10:31] Voice 6: and we're

[1:10:32] Voice 11: taking efforts to to be better you know we can be even more better

[1:10:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah I think

[1:10:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just in respect to that and I've heard this a lot that island stress is not communicating well

[1:10:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or we can't in a timely way address all the stuff that's coming up um it was something I first heard

[1:10:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): when i came into office we lack a two-way communication portal so that people can ask

[1:10:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions and get answers so um our cao has recognized that the chief administrative officer

[1:11:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and his strength is in communications and i think most of the challenges that we face is not that

[1:11:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we're not doing good work it's that it's not understood and plain language enough so that

[1:11:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That has definitely been heard, and like the Chair said, there is a position now, and I think what I hope for is that there be tailored communication tools for each community, because everyone's different.

[1:11:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Some actually use Facebook as the main source, and some do not use it at all. Some use social media, some do not. Some have newspapers, some do not. So we are dealing with 34,000 residents and multiple projects in many ways.

[1:11:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and

[1:11:43] Voice 4: senior residents navigate that thing you're right

[1:11:47] Voice 4: yeah thank

[1:11:48] Voice 11: you that's a good

[1:11:50] Voice 11: appreciate it

[1:11:50] Voice 11: all right so thank you thank you today

[1:11:52] Voice 6: for your comments we do take them

[1:11:54] Voice 6: seriously and they do help us uh make better decisions so i'm going to move on and the agenda

[1:12:02] Voice 11: today um we have uh we're in the section six the minutes uh 6.1 is the minutes from our may 26th

[1:12:11] Voice 11: the meeting on page four of the agenda package. Are there any

[1:12:14] Voice 11: additions or changes to the minutes?

[1:12:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Feel free to go. We're not gonna keep you here for the rest of

[1:12:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it. Thanks for coming. Thank you. So I did have a

[1:12:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thank you very much. Thanks.

[1:12:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): feel free

[1:12:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to call us up if you

[1:12:38] Voice 8: want to yeah okay

[1:12:39] Voice 8: perfect um

[1:12:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): page 10 i know seven page seven in a

[1:12:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): minute at the very top um just the third bullet there may be unintended consequences of not

[1:12:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): required for that uh i just wonder if this could be amplified because the concerns that we raised

[1:13:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): were that the LTC might not have an opportunity to review a site plan, or it might require

[1:13:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): an additional service to develop siting and use, siting and use, what is it? What is that?

[1:13:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Siting and use permit?

[1:13:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Siting and use permit by the LTC. So it was like, there may be unintended consequences.

[1:13:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to me that doesn't quite capture the intent was there what is the opportunity

[1:13:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to review or would we have to create a different service for the LTC I don't

[1:13:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know Lisa I'm through the chair if you could specify what you would like it to

[1:13:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): say okay to add on to the third bullet page seven of the minutes after not

[1:13:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not required a permit, comma, such as no review of the sighting and use and use. I think that's

[1:14:12] Voice 11: really

[1:14:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all you need.

[1:14:13] Voice 11: Yeah. So that's what today they're

[1:14:16] Voice 6: referred in the use and sightings looked

[1:14:20] Voice 6: at. All

[1:14:21] Voice 6: right.

[1:14:22] Voice 11: Okay. Any other changes? No. So can we approve the

[1:14:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): minutes as amended through

[1:14:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): general consent yes thank you and thank you to um leave some alert for you're just unbelievably good

[1:14:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): work on our sometimes garbled conversations right

[1:14:40] Voice 11: well that's going to move us on then to the

[1:14:42] Voice 11: follow-up action list at item 7.1 on page 14 of the agenda package are there any questions from

[1:14:48] Voice 11: trustees on any of the follow-up actions go ahead trustee yates i

[1:14:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just had one with her planner bow

[1:14:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on page three of the follow-up action list item number four and I think we might be waiting for

[1:15:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): William Shulbaugh to get back to us on this on staff report back with information about the

[1:15:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): groundwater license status associated with the address that address so it's

[1:15:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): got to be more than

[1:15:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): than zero percent, but maybe not.

[1:15:21] Voice 9: That one is assigned to William Sova

[1:15:24] Voice 9: and he may be in the meeting right now.

[1:15:26] Voice 9: So maybe he can provide a brief update if he's here.

[1:15:30] Voice 9: If not, I know that it's in progress.

[1:15:35] Voice 6: And I see him turning his camera on.

[1:15:38] Voice 6: So did you hear the question there?

[1:15:42] Voice 1: Hi, Chair.

[1:15:43] Voice 1: Can I get that question repeated to me, please?

[1:15:46] Voice 1: Thanks.

[1:15:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Go ahead. Sure.

[1:15:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's on a follow-up action report number four information request staff report back

[1:15:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with information about the groundwater license status associated with 3153 Wally Road

[1:16:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is there a groundwater license at that address if there is what's happening um

[1:16:14] Voice 2: just for clarity this

[1:16:17] Voice 2: This is with regards to Summer Rain.

[1:16:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes.

[1:16:22] Voice 2: Yes.

[1:16:23] Voice 2: So there was a freedom of information package that was requested by somebody, and we put that together.

[1:16:37] Voice 2: And so I spoke with bylaw enforcement manager, Warren Dingman, and he showed me it.

[1:16:53] Voice 2: And so I reviewed it.

[1:16:54] Voice 2: And in that package, there is the license application that was submitted during the transitional licensing time when the Water Sustainability Act was enacted in February of 2016.

[1:17:12] Voice 2: 2016, those non-domestic groundwater users from before the enactment of the Act had a window of

[1:17:23] Voice 2: opportunity to apply for a transitional existing water use license. And if those users put in

[1:17:32] Voice 2: their application and they operated as they have been, then that operation is lawful with respect

[1:17:40] Voice 2: to licensing. So even though they may have not received their license yet, their application,

[1:17:47] Voice 2: they have an application number and they've applied for it with a reasonable water volume that

[1:17:52] Voice 2: matches what their historical use is. So then by way of that, they are offering life lawful as it

[1:18:01] Voice 2: relates to the BC Water Stability Act and their groundwater licensing.

[1:18:07] Voice 2: Thank

[1:18:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you very much, William. I guess the question arises as to they're operating lawfully according to the historical use prior to application to groundwater licensing.

[1:18:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And because a groundwater license actually determines the conditions by which you operate, that is how much volume you can extract.

[1:18:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um i think

[1:18:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there are there are concerns about that because we've got our freshwater sustainability

[1:18:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): our freshwater footprint and one of the things in the footprint is how much water is being used in

[1:18:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): certain neighborhoods um so that we can determine you know various zoning requirements various

[1:18:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whatever with regard to land use planning but if we don't know how much water is being extracted

[1:19:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it even approximately in an area that has commercial use, we're missing some really

[1:19:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): important information. So there are, it's not my personal concern, it's been brought up a number

[1:19:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of times, whether or not the current use relates at all to the historical use and how is that

[1:19:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sort of, that's the word, monitored, I guess, by the Groundwater Licensing Branch.

[1:19:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh

[1:19:33] Voice 2: so through the chair um when uh when these existing users applied there was an initial

[1:19:42] Voice 2: screening and this is when the water authorizations was still with ministry of

[1:19:49] Voice 2: force and they had a bigger budget so they screened uh the major users that came from

[1:19:56] Voice 2: areas and even though this is a not a large amount of water compared to other industrial

[1:20:04] Voice 2: needs like across the province with respect to the island's trust area it's a significant amount

[1:20:10] Voice 2: of water so then they they would have reviewed it and so i've seen transitional licenses where

[1:20:18] Voice 2: the province immediately went back and said that your volumes don't make sense well what is this

[1:20:23] Voice 2: because they were actively engaging in people who were applying for licenses

[1:20:30] Voice 2: because they're trying to get the regime off the ground, the groundwater licensing.

[1:20:36] Voice 2: So in that case, I'm not sure if it was reviewed, their application.

[1:20:42] Voice 2: But to me, what they have applied for seems reasonable

[1:20:49] Voice 2: reasonable with respect to the amount of water that they would use for that commercial use.

[1:20:59] Voice 2: And so based on license volumes or estimated ones, we do have a general idea of how much

[1:21:11] Voice 2: water is allocated in an aquifer and that's located in the freshwater footprint project.

[1:21:19] Voice 2: how the licensing authorizations team places conditions on a license is dependent on what

[1:21:29] Voice 2: the license is and sometimes there is monitoring requirements and often there is not most

[1:21:35] Voice 2: transitional licenses didn't get any requirements beyond just their conditional license there's no

[1:21:44] Voice 2: monitoring requirement on many of the licenses across the island trust area thanks uh

[1:21:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so second

[1:21:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): question and thank you for bringing this up rusty aids uh so the groundwater license doesn't cover

[1:22:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh water that is trucked in and then used as the business it is strictly for groundwater

[1:22:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water use just clarifying it's

[1:22:12] Voice 2: uh through the chair a license is a you license the point of

[1:22:17] Voice 2: source like the point and not the point of use so um for a groundwater well that could be licensed

[1:22:25] Voice 2: and then if there's trucked water um almost in every case trucked water is a commercial use so

[1:22:34] Voice 2: So then the wherever that water is coming from would be a license source so say if it's

[1:22:40] Voice 2: coming from the NIMO lakes from the mainland on the ferry that that's a licensed water

[1:22:45] Voice 2: source for the city in NIMO.

[1:22:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I have a follow up question that maybe you can answer during our OCP discussion William

[1:22:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): William, but I was wondering if there's a conversation with the RDN water protection

[1:23:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): group. Sorry, I've forgotten the name. What is it? The Drinking

[1:23:08] Voice 2: Water and Watershed Protection

[1:23:09] Voice 2: Program. And I sit

[1:23:11] Voice 2: on the technical advisory committee and we meet four times a year.

[1:23:15] Voice 2: Right.

[1:23:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay. About whether the source water in Cedar will indefinitely continue to be available, or is there any conversation about, depending on, you know, water conditions on Vancouver Island, whether that might be limited for commercial users, such as those that are trucking on water to Cabriola.

[1:23:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And we can maybe chat about that later, but it was something I wanted

[1:23:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to raise with Vanessa Craig.

[1:23:47] Voice 2: Sure, through the chair, that's a good idea.

[1:23:50] Voice 2: I mean, Cedar is slated to be within a very intensive urban containment boundary, right?

[1:23:58] Voice 2: Like Cedar is going to be the next large community in that part of the island.

[1:24:03] Voice 2: um yeah so so there are a lot they're they're undertaking uh the rdn is undertaking that water

[1:24:11] Voice 2: budget i believe now they just finished french creek so um yeah the rdn has you know in their

[1:24:19] Voice 2: electoral areas have undertaken some significant work um with respect to water budgeting and

[1:24:25] Voice 2: Um, so I'll have to, I'll have to get back to you on that, but, um,

[1:24:31] Voice 8: kind

[1:24:33] Voice 2: of is a good

[1:24:34] Voice 2: point that perhaps for the local trust committee for, uh, staff to return back with maybe just

[1:24:43] Voice 2: a briefing on the drinking water and watershed protection program and what they're doing,

[1:24:48] Voice 2: because they do great work and, and, um, I'm exposed to that four times a year.

[1:24:52] Voice 2: we get presentations of uh not only like their water smart program and and the things they're

[1:24:58] Voice 2: doing within the regional district but also uh associated groups um conservation groups or

[1:25:05] Voice 2: or like the vius work um in the region and it's it's it's all really interesting stuff thank you

[1:25:14] Voice 2: thank you any

[1:25:16] Voice 11: other questions in the follow-up action report anything staff wish to bring to

[1:25:21] Voice 11: attention for follow-up action report no

[1:25:26] Voice 9: no there isn't maybe for clarity is that does this

[1:25:29] Voice 9: conversation satisfy that that one request for information or is there additional i

[1:25:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think it

[1:25:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): does matter about i think my my real concern and that of others who have spoken to me directly

[1:25:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is that whatever groundwater license was applied for is based on historical parameters

[1:25:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And whatever might be coming out of the ground at that location now, in that residential area, could be far more than what was actually in line for.

[1:26:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But as William Schultz has pointed out, how would the province ever have time to monitor that, right?

[1:26:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's under their jurisdiction. It's their water license. All we can do is zone the land accordingly.

[1:26:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): accordingly and um I think everybody knows it's my wish to have a community water zone somewhere

[1:26:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where there's lots of water that our trucks could go locally and have we're going to get to that

[1:26:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provide everybody with water that they need and not out of their residential neighborhood but

[1:26:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): my real concern is the possible discretion between what has been applied for based on a historical

[1:26:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): context compared to what is actually being pumped out of the ground in that area I don't

[1:26:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There is a note in William's report about further research is needed and interviews

[1:27:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with, maybe we can talk about that one.

[1:27:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We'll get to that, but yeah, I noted that as well.

[1:27:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Any other last questions on the follow-up?

[1:27:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Cut off Steve in there.

[1:27:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it

[1:27:14] Voice 9: was just that you'll you'll see that drop off then when i send out an update yes of course

[1:27:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thank you wonderful yeah all right

[1:27:23] Voice 11: so it is noon trustees uh we have two applications

[1:27:29] Voice 11: did you want to power through those let's

[1:27:31] Voice 11: get them done

[1:27:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and then if you want to leave

[1:27:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like okay i'm

[1:27:36] Voice 9: just here to see what you're doing

[1:27:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'm taking you off no all right so there's no

[1:27:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): applicant yes there is oh there it is so

[1:27:45] Voice 11: let's uh proceed with item 9.1 sorry to everybody uh

[1:27:51] Voice 6: so this is a temporary use

[1:27:52] Voice 11: permit 925 uh zero one two six uh staff report on page 18. uh

[1:27:59] Voice 11: And this is going to be Margo.

[1:28:02] Voice 11: Margo, you're here.

[1:28:03] Voice 11: I'm sorry, I didn't even

[1:28:04] Voice 8: see you sneak in.

[1:28:05] Voice 8: All

[1:28:05] Voice 11: right, thanks, Tara.

[1:28:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so the purpose of this report is to introduce an application for a temporary lease permit

[1:28:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to allow the operation of a commercial vacation rental in a three-bedroom single-family dwelling

[1:28:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on the subject property.

[1:28:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The applicant must apply to the LTC to consider issuing the permit according to the

[1:28:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Gabriel Island that you find that temporary use permit

[1:28:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): guidelines, staff is recommending issuance,

[1:28:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): considering that the proposed commercial vacation, which in

[1:28:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): defense of all the TUP guidelines, zoning, land use

[1:28:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regulations, take the one something different thing about

[1:28:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this application is that staff are recommended issuance for a

[1:28:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): shorter period of three years, because the applicant has been

[1:28:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and operating the commercial vacation rental already

[1:28:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for at least 18 months.

[1:29:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So a total period of at least 10 days,

[1:29:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be sure, is that.

[1:29:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Do you have any other questions for staff?

[1:29:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I can keep my review short if you've already assumed you've

[1:29:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): already read it.

[1:29:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But yeah, I'm here to answer any questions.

[1:29:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and also I believe the applicant is here, Chris Campbell.

[1:29:22] Voice 11: Thank you.

[1:29:24] Voice 11: Chris, is there anything you'd like to add?

[1:29:30] Voice 11: No,

[1:29:31] Voice 7: maybe a bit of explanation.

[1:29:33] Voice 7: By the 18 months, I guess, the story behind that was

[1:29:39] Voice 7: that I had someone

[1:29:42] Voice 10: else do the posting for me

[1:29:44] Voice 10: and he thought that we met all the requirements

[1:29:47] Voice 7: because there was a lot of change at that time.

[1:29:52] Voice 7: May is when Gabriel opted in to the Provincial Governance and the Church of Liverpool.

[1:30:00] Voice 7: regulations. And I think he applied in June. We did a rental condition in June. And I think

[1:30:11] Voice 7: he thought that we were regularly assaulted by the cops. And I didn't check with him that

[1:30:18] Voice 7: I just, there was the ad that was down in my opinion. So then I got

[1:30:25] Voice 10: a

[1:30:26] Voice 7: bylaw letter from

[1:30:28] Voice 7: from Daniel Schneider at the time. That was January of 2035. And he said he'd received

[1:30:36] Voice 7: a complaint that I didn't have a tuck. So I contacted him, as the letter said, and I

[1:30:44] Voice 7: didn't hear back for two weeks. So I phoned again. I didn't hear back again. And I finally

[1:30:51] Voice 7: got told, I mean, I don't remember the date I spoke with, but I finally found out it was

[1:30:55] Voice 7: on we haven't been passed on. So

[1:30:58] Voice 7: I've had to spend some time trying to resolve this. And I looked at

[1:31:02] Voice 7: the bylaw of enforcement policy was that as long as people are working for compliance, they work

[1:31:09] Voice 7: with you. So I thought, well, that's, that's great. I didn't call that thought, regardless,

[1:31:15] Voice 7: I'll just apply. So

[1:31:17] Voice 7: in April, I applied to the top. And then there was a period where I've done

[1:31:24] Voice 7: everything except the post inspection and I did push back a little bit on that with Marco

[1:31:30] Voice 7: because I didn't see how the trust jurisdiction really related to quality of the occupants

[1:31:41] Voice 7: house right so anyway I decided okay I won't go with the fact that it's just a really renovated

[1:31:49] Voice 7: against obviously it's little and I instead

[1:31:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): went ahead and bought the post-inspection

[1:31:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): submitted it and that's what moved us along in that interim period I had been traveling

[1:32:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): against

[1:32:03] Voice 7: surgery and just trying to suck

[1:32:05] Voice 11: away and

[1:32:06] Voice 7: so getting marbles compensated for that

[1:32:09] Voice 7: and duration which is fair to me so that's sort of the whole story of coming to it

[1:32:20] Voice 6: well i appreciate

[1:32:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that we're gonna we may have some questions for you or staff so trustees um

[1:32:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah and just one comment regarding opting into the provincial regulations uh we had a temporary

[1:32:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use permit um regime in place even before we opted

[1:32:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): into those provincial regulations

[1:32:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so even before that we did require people who were operating a short-term vacation rental

[1:32:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to apply for temporary extended.

[1:32:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So thank you for doing that.

[1:32:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I had a couple of questions from Planner Tomaitis.

[1:32:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I love that tracking map because I look at that right away

[1:32:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to see where are the other short-term vacation rentals

[1:32:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in that neighborhood that I, but I only see

[1:33:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the last one we got, you showed all of them,

[1:33:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all of the TUPs for short-term vacation rentals.

[1:33:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And in fact, it should probably technically say TUP short-term vacation rental tracking

[1:33:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): map, because that's the thing we're concerned about, not a different kind of TUP.

[1:33:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So it seems to be missing the ones that we've already approved.

[1:33:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There's only one there.

[1:33:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so I'd be concerned about that, because we do need to know, you know, where are they

[1:33:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): across the island, which neighborhoods are affected.

[1:33:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There must have been a formatting issue because the one that got published is quite different.

[1:33:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I can show it to you.

[1:33:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I can try

[1:33:46] Voice 8: to find it now.

[1:33:47] Voice 8: No, don't worry about that.

[1:33:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I just want to make sure that when we look at these applications, we have the polar picture.

[1:33:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So, thank you.

[1:33:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I did that.

[1:33:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I had that with all six labeled with the addresses.

[1:33:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[1:33:57] Voice 1: of red stars

[1:33:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for all the current oh wow and then the thing is formatting we are having

[1:34:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah and so

[1:34:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's multiple issues that are that are coming up particularly around now so yeah

[1:34:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and as you know i really find that helpful and i hope that future defense committee also

[1:34:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): finds that helpful. And I just have one other quick question. This would be to you, Chris,

[1:34:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for your welcome guide. Because we really like to encourage active transportation and, you know,

[1:34:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): less cars on the road if we can, it would be great if you also included the current dirty bus

[1:34:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): schedule and it would be great also well there it is oh my it would be great also if you actually

[1:34:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provided them with a galt trail map okay great yeah

[1:34:59] Voice 7: i'm

[1:35:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just looking at the yeah which is

[1:35:02] Voice 7: yeah because

[1:35:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know anytime we can encourage cyclists and pedestrians that's just wonderful

[1:35:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You could also mention the museum, because the museum is the place I go when I'm looking

[1:35:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for some historical and current information on cultural and natural history.

[1:35:25] Voice 7: I'm looking to start a tour then.

[1:35:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[1:35:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I mean, I would, you know, deny this application and waiting for that.

[1:35:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's just if you are good with supplying that information, then I think that's really helpful.

[1:35:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): My only question

[1:35:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was, are you, you sort of said that you felt it was fair to issue just

[1:35:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the 18 months?

[1:35:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, I've been in a lot

[1:35:52] Voice 7: of thought about that.

[1:35:54] Voice 7: My first thought was it was punitive,

[1:35:56] Voice 8: and

[1:35:57] Voice 7: is that in keeping with the philosophy of

[1:36:02] Voice 7: encouraging and allowing time for compliance, and I've also been on that,

[1:36:07] Voice 8: and

[1:36:08] Voice 7: then I thought

[1:36:10] Voice 8: If

[1:36:10] Voice 7: I had proceeded quicker, I would still be wearing some UVHP.

[1:36:16] Voice 8: That's

[1:36:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where I am.

[1:36:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That was my thought.

[1:36:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[1:36:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, that was sort of the only issue that I wanted to clarify was it's, and I'm glad

[1:36:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to hear you say, you know, you debated about it.

[1:36:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's more about the fairness to other applicants who are going through the same process and

[1:36:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And to get that, you know, segment of time to test the use.

[1:36:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Evidently, there's no real impact to your neighbors.

[1:36:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There was no letters of concern.

[1:36:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And it seems to be well run.

[1:36:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I do support the staff recommendation as long as you're okay with it.

[1:37:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And yeah, you can come for a renewal without having to do all this work after the 18 months.

[1:37:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I support the issuance of the permit.

[1:37:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I

[1:37:12] Voice 11: guess that's my only question. So if you issue a temporary use permit for 18 months,

[1:37:16] Voice 11: I understand 18 months, when she

[1:37:20] Voice 11: applies for a renewal, can it only be for the same period of time?

[1:37:24] Voice 11: So can the renewal only be 18 months?

[1:37:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm pretty sure that it could be for up to three years.

[1:37:31] Voice 11: The

[1:37:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): renewal period could be longer.

[1:37:34] Voice 6: Okay, that was just my question.

[1:37:36] Voice 6: was

[1:37:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that the question i think it's three years yeah and the only thing that would hinder that

[1:37:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be if there was major complaints about your operation or if there was some sort of

[1:37:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water problem which could happen to anything

[1:37:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): trustees how do you want i move that the gabriela island local class committee approve issuance of

[1:37:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of PLTUP 2025-0126 for a period of 18 months.

[1:38:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Is there a second?

[1:38:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Seconded by Trustee Elliot.

[1:38:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Any discussion?

[1:38:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Call the vote.

[1:38:09] Voice 11: All those in favor?

[1:38:10] Voice 11: That carries.

[1:38:11] Voice 11: And

[1:38:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thank you, Planner Timaeus,

[1:38:12] Voice 11: for a

[1:38:12] Voice 11: great staffing work.

[1:38:14] Voice 11: Working

[1:38:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with us through the process.

[1:38:17] Voice 8: Thank you.

[1:38:19] Voice 11: I'm going to move on then.

[1:38:21] Voice 11: Item 9.2 on the agenda, page 51,

[1:38:24] Voice 11: is a rezoning

[1:38:26] Voice 11: 2024-0091

[1:38:28] Voice 11: which is the Mid-Island

[1:38:30] Voice 11: Co-op. It's a staff report.

[1:38:32] Voice 11: So there

[1:38:34] Voice 11: he is. Hello, Kleiner Cox.

[1:38:38] Voice 5: Hello, Chair.

[1:38:40] Voice 5: Can you hear me?

[1:38:41] Voice 6: You're a little quiet, but go ahead.

[1:38:44] Voice 5: Okay.

[1:38:46] Voice 5: So this report is

[1:38:50] Voice 5: for

[1:38:51] Voice 5: the Mid-Island Co-op rezoning, which

[1:38:54] Voice 5: is bylaw

[1:38:55] Voice 5: 321 and 322 to amend

[1:38:57] Voice 5: the ocp and lub respectively the bylaws have received approval from the executive committee

[1:39:04] Voice 5: which you probably already are aware of and also from the minister of municipal affairs and housing

[1:39:11] Voice 5: you've held a public hearing for these bylaws and um and as well given them third reading so this

[1:39:18] Voice 5: this report is is uh recommending final adoption um for the reasons presented in the report and

[1:39:25] Voice 5: And you've got a couple of alternatives there as well on page 52.

[1:39:31] Voice 5: Unless you have any other questions for staff, we can answer that now.

[1:39:37] Voice 6: Thanks.

[1:39:38] Voice 6: And the applicant's not here today.

[1:39:40] Voice 6: No,

[1:39:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but we have the applicant, and they've been very diligent about talking to us throughout the process.

[1:39:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Trustees, any questions for staff?

[1:39:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No?

[1:39:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): How do you want to proceed?

[1:39:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Go ahead.

[1:39:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I move that the Gabriel Island Local Trust Committee

[1:39:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bylaw number 321

[1:39:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cited as Gabriel Island Official Community Plan

[1:39:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bylaw number

[1:40:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 166-1997

[1:40:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): amendment number 1-2025 be adopted.

[1:40:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Seconded by Trustee Yates.

[1:40:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Any discussion?

[1:40:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All those in favor? That carries.

[1:40:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I move that the Gabriel Island

[1:40:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Local Trust Committee bylaw number 322

[1:40:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cited as Gabriel Island Land Use

[1:40:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bylaw 1999

[1:40:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): amendment number 1-2025 be adopted.

[1:40:23] Voice 6: seconded by Trustee Elliott. Any discussion? All those in favor? And that carries. All right. Well, that's done. Thank

[1:40:31] Voice 6: you, Planner Cox. Thank you.

[1:40:33] Voice 5: Thank

[1:40:33] Voice 6: you. So, Trustees, did you want to take a lunch break? And how much time?

[1:40:40] Voice 11: Do you guys want 30 minutes for everybody?

[1:40:42] Voice 11: Okay, so let's, let's come back quarter to one then and so thank you. So we're in recess till quarter to one.

[1:40:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Thank you for the day. Thanks for coming.

[1:41:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Do you have any questions?

[1:41:04] Voice 3: He has. You have.

[1:41:06] Voice 3: Yeah,

[1:41:07] Voice 10: but again, more the process of looking at the land use program and so forth.

[2:16:08] Voice 3: Okay, that's a good point.

[2:16:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And if I end up...

[2:16:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We're live and recording.

[2:16:16] Voice 11: Thank you.

[2:16:17] Voice 11: All right, everyone.

[2:16:19] Voice 11: I'm going to call us back from our lunch break.

[2:16:22] Voice 8: We

[2:16:23] Voice 6: stopped right at item 10,

[2:16:27] Voice 6: which is our 10.1,

[2:16:28] Voice 6: our major project for Gabriel Island,

[2:16:30] Voice 6: OCP and land use bylaw review,

[2:16:33] Voice 6: business case approval and stock report here,

[2:16:35] Voice 6: beginning on page 60 of the agenda package.

[2:16:38] Voice 6: and i'm going to turn the floor over to uh thank

[2:16:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you chair um yeah so we have um i i think what

[2:16:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be uh a detailed discussion relating to the the ocp draft which was presented to the ltc in

[2:16:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): may and to the public so public were invited to comment on that draft and we received a lot of

[2:17:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a lot of comments since that period of time and so there's a few things that that we need to do

[2:17:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): today one is we revised the project charter to reflect first reading in September we were

[2:17:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sort of being very ambitious thinking we'd go earlier than that but became very very clear

[2:17:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): at our main meeting well previous to that that that that that would not give the public enough

[2:17:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): enough time to review the draft and it was a very, very good decision because we had a lot of interest.

[2:17:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So the endorsement of the revised project charter, which basically bumps the first reading until September,

[2:17:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and therefore the other timelines for second and third also shift.

[2:17:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): shift. So we will ultimately be seeing third reading in the spring of 2027, which means

[2:18:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that there's going to be a lot of time for first reading for additional public comment.

[2:18:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And the reason that timeline shifts like that is because it accommodates the election and

[2:18:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the new LTC and getting a new LTC up to speed. We want to be realistic about that. The other

[2:18:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The other thing you've got presented before you is a revised communications and engagement plan.

[2:18:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So there's been some conversation about, you know, where that's due to staff time.

[2:18:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There was consideration of doing some market presence.

[2:18:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's been removed for the summer, and then it's been updated to reflect the new timing.

[2:18:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then we've got the change document that we can go through in a very focused way.

[2:19:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): way. And, and then the other thing is that just considering

[2:19:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): process, we, staff are, are recommending that the LTCs

[2:19:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): support the the scheduling of an August meeting, we've extended

[2:19:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the the deadline for comments from the public to July 31. So

[2:19:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have time to review what comes in. And as we heard earlier today, there are some feedback.

[2:19:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that'll give you an opportunity to review what comes in as well as if there are things

[2:19:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): today that we were talking about and you're wanting some information or what have you,

[2:19:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that gives an opportunity for staff to come back with other options. You've got the Freshwater

[2:20:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): footprint briefing which has a very detailed Q&A and I think if you've had a chance to have a look

[2:20:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): through it, it's very impressive. William Swichel, our senior freshwater specialist,

[2:20:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): spent a lot of time making that as plain language as possible as well as you'll see. And I even

[2:20:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think like even down to the font in terms of readability, he thought about everything here.

[2:20:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so we're trying to make it as accessible as as possible um so hopefully that's gonna um

[2:20:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be useful to uh community in particular those community members that have had

[2:20:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions relating to the the fresh water work um and then finally there's a business case um

[2:20:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for 2027-28 so we're not we're at that weird period of time um in this organization where

[2:21:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where we have to decide on the items that will be going forward to the financial planning committee

[2:21:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): around budget for the following fiscal, which begins next April.

[2:21:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we are, even though we were six months out, this is part of our process.

[2:21:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So what I think in terms of process, I would suggest maybe we go through everything,

[2:21:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Everything excluding the points through the changes, the options document, and we could go through those items and then and then go through the options document as that'll take the most time or you already go through all that at the end of what you're

[2:21:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think that's a really good idea because i think it'll take a bit longer to go through

[2:21:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the options document and maybe it might be helpful if we both could tell you right now

[2:22:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whether we were available on august 6th or 7th so i can tell you that i'm available both of those

[2:22:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): days okay for a meeting thank you yep available so schedule according to so we'll take that

[2:22:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): information and ideally sorry uh there is a celebration for a community member on the 7th

[2:22:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i know a lot of people attend so if we're thinking of an afternoon evening meeting the

[2:22:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 6th might be better than thursday well i guess that's also a question is uh in terms of timing

[2:22:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um from the staff perspective evenings are not good that week yeah um also it would be and this

[2:22:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is really a focused time yeah yeah something

[2:22:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like this because we expect to receive input from the

[2:22:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): public all the time

[2:22:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which yeah i just did when i went to get my lunch yeah um and then we can

[2:22:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): filter i shouldn't say filter i don't filter anything i just make sure i get all the dependencies

[2:23:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and you know and then make sure we get that to you that would be great

[2:23:05] Voice 11: yeah i do have a meeting

[2:23:07] Voice 11: can tend to new but it can be done on the routines so i would do it here well the the

[2:23:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): intention is that it's not like electronic oh it would be a little bit yeah that'll make it

[2:23:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): way easier i think so so question when we get to the um engagement plan um i don't know do we want

[2:23:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to talk about that now yeah let's go well this is my this is what i was suggesting is we could

[2:23:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): go through all the items excluding the the options first go through the items questions

[2:23:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the resolutions and then move to that one okay yeah great and before we do that just in your

[2:23:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): staff report um planner chat just a couple of typos i don't know if you need to know about

[2:23:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): page three uh uh third paragraph down attachment three staff have proved i think it's provided

[2:23:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): find it. Right. Okay, just I don't know who else is reading

[2:24:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this. But

[2:24:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one more on page four of the staff report. First paragraph

[2:24:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): halfway down briefing and attachment five includes high

[2:24:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): resolution copies of these maps.

[2:24:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That. Okay, good. Good. Thank you. Yeah. So can we do the

[2:24:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): partner charter first?

[2:24:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay, trustees, questions, comments on the project charter?

[2:24:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So yeah, so my question was about the option for community to ask questions and sort of

[2:24:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have a community information meeting within the special meeting that you're proposing.

[2:24:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay, so that's aside from the project charter, and maybe when you get to that, we'll get

[2:24:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but that's if we decide on that would not that would be part of the engagement that's part of

[2:25:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this i think so it doesn't matter the project looks wonderful actually i just have a couple

[2:25:18] Voice 6: how do you feel about the the land use bylaw timing after what we've learned would be

[2:25:25] Voice 6: the community plan here is the is it aggressive this

[2:25:32] Voice 11: timing or

[2:25:33] Voice 6: is it realistic I guess would be

[2:25:35] Voice 6: the

[2:25:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right so again it's update for consistency so it needs to be done that consistency has to

[2:25:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be done well I

[2:25:44] Voice 11: agree yeah I

[2:25:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think we're feeling pretty I think we're feeling pretty good

[2:25:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I had one really quick question, and it has to do with the DAI, first and second meeting,

[2:25:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): DAI, third meeting.

[2:26:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Do we expect, when it's a DAI bylaw, we don't really expect the public to have input into

[2:26:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that, do we?

[2:26:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, it's a technical thing that, yeah, I just wanted

[2:26:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to make sure people understand

[2:26:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that when they ask me, oh, how come there isn't a public hearing?

[2:26:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, good.

[2:26:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm just so happy to see you all there.

[2:26:21] Voice 6: I do have one. I don't know. I don't think we have to put in here because I've just been through the project charter for Salt Springs, especially the community plan. And I know you and I had talked about

[2:26:31] Voice 6: a communications, a brief elevator pitch. Can we describe this entire project in like three sentences?

[2:26:41] Voice 6: First, I thought, oh, that was something that we need to get to the project charter, but

[2:26:46] Voice 6: it needs to be maintained live or more live than the project charter.

[2:26:53] Voice 6: So for Salt Spring, I would recommend that we at least commit to doing that.

[2:26:57] Voice 6: I'm thinking from a service or the next trust committee is here that to be able to concisely

[2:27:09] Voice 6: explain this project in like three sentences can we do an elevator pitch on this project

[2:27:19] Voice 6: um and on salt spring we're proposing that that that pitch would be show up in all communications

[2:27:24] Voice 6: every staff report every public community we always keep repeating that that elevator pitch

[2:27:30] Voice 6: so to say and it's to me it's a test it's like and the staff and the trustees can both say the

[2:27:35] Voice 6: same pitch, all talking about the same project nice and clear.

[2:27:40] Voice 6: Because it's something that we get divergence on, I think the

[2:27:42] Voice 6: project is this, but that's not what's there. So I just think it

[2:27:48] Voice 6: would be beneficial before the end of this term, to be able to

[2:27:52] Voice 6: describe, you know, I know the

[2:27:55] Voice 11: project charter speaks to staff

[2:27:56] Voice 11: really well. But it may not speak to, you know, someone.

[2:28:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I think we've had

[2:28:01] Voice 11: that. I think we have had that in some

[2:28:03] Voice 11: our communications

[2:28:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we can highlight it on the website uh or something like that like on the

[2:28:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): main page i think we should

[2:28:12] Voice 6: review and look at it again make sure if we're solid

[2:28:15] Voice 6: yeah um because the

[2:28:17] Voice 6: community you're you know people can answer questions and then you know we're saying the

[2:28:21] Voice 6: same thing we agree with it we look at it but that is the statement we agree

[2:28:25] Voice 8: that speaks to the

[2:28:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): project one of the things i find super helpful is every time we get a project charter updated

[2:28:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): dated i i put that right at the front of my lcp work so that i because this is a really good

[2:28:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): timeline and description and budget and in scope out of scope all the dates are there like this is

[2:28:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): actually really good if you can always remember to have this handy for your

[2:28:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): elevator but it isn't

[2:28:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): an elevator

[2:28:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so you look at this and it is not i that's where the

[2:28:56] Voice 6: interpretation gets i get

[2:28:57] Voice 6: problematic that's what i was trying to get i completely

[2:29:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): understand chair patrick yeah

[2:29:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i i may get an elevator pitch for myself but only because i look at it

[2:29:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah i get it any other comments on the projector i'm i'm still going to say that i think

[2:29:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): community information meeting commented for august it's not possible within the special

[2:29:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): special evening, it won't be possible. I mean, you could, but I, well, let's discuss it as

[2:29:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): part of the VA.

[2:29:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[2:29:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's fine.

[2:29:35] Voice 8: And

[2:29:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one thing we could continue to do, um,

[2:29:38] Voice 7: is

[2:29:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have our, have these great scheduled events

[2:29:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that you have so graciously booked for us, where we do talk to people and they do show

[2:29:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): up.

[2:29:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:29:49] Voice 8: Yeah,

[2:29:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it means a lot of our time every week, Tuesday and Thursday, if we're available.

[2:29:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We can still try to do that.

[2:29:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[2:30:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Absolutely. Actually, no, sorry. When I go down to the budget, there is a question. The

[2:30:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): archaeological overview assessment, we did have a budget and tax for that $25,000. Would

[2:30:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that not be carried over for the next fiscal?

[2:30:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So it's really strange how our budgets work, as you know. So I've been talking to Nessie

[2:30:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about this. So we're looking at how it's also the procurement, like we're having lots of

[2:30:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): discussions around this right now, and

[2:30:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): also Sinema can hear into that and so forth. So

[2:30:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's in process to understand what, like, how we, if we can carry it over, but I think

[2:30:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we still have to account for it in the budget. So that's why you see a portion of it accounted

[2:30:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for. How it works logistically in terms of the plot that it goes through, like that's

[2:30:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): kind of details the financial details stuff but but um like i said we've had to i tried to account

[2:31:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for uh the fact that we may not use it all uh in this budget year okay any other questions

[2:31:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are you prepared to entertain a resolution then no i think that's a good idea yeah i know that

[2:31:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the gabriola island local cast committee endorsed the revised gabriola island official community

[2:31:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Plan and Land Use By-law Review Project Charter dated July 2026, version 8.

[2:31:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Second by Trustee

[2:31:39] Voice 11: Elliott. Any discussion?

[2:31:41] Voice 3: All those

[2:31:42] Voice 11: in

[2:31:43] Voice 6: favor? And that carries.

[2:31:45] Voice 6: So

[2:31:46] Voice 11: the next item then will be the Communications and Engagement Plan.

[2:31:51] Voice 11: land yeah

[2:31:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so this is where i'm sorry yeah yes yes

[2:32:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay this is where i'm it's i recognize that

[2:32:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): time should be spent on drafting and receiving constructive comments um and we're getting past

[2:32:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the stage of just general information what is the ocp so i'm not looking for a community

[2:32:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): information meeting for that but there is a strong desire for some back and forth dialogue

[2:32:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and I don't know how to structure that outside of a community information meeting.

[2:32:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I thought the way that we did it for the water, the last community information meeting for the

[2:32:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water

[2:32:44] Voice 8: freshwater

[2:32:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): project worked well because what it does is it surfaces common questions that then

[2:32:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we can answer with frequently asked responses um so i was just wondering if we could say have an

[2:33:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hour or two to answer questions directly not necessarily hearing people's perspectives or

[2:33:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are like what they want to see don't want to see but really questions for clarity to get out

[2:33:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): get past any misunderstandings and a fundamental one that keeps coming up is are my property

[2:33:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rights affected if i'm five but if i'm in a freshwater hazard zone um and are you taking

[2:33:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): away my ability to have a secondary dwelling you know so that's something there's there's a

[2:33:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And as the gentleman, Mr. Hoy, said today, there's so much misinformation floating around the community right now because of all the different water issues and court cases and opponents putting things out there that may or may not be true.

[2:33:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): People are confused on some very basic things that we think are clear because we've been working through the process, but they're only now engaging.

[2:34:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so I don't want to get to first reading and people are like still unclear on some

[2:34:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): fundamentals.

[2:34:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's what I want to have a discussion.

[2:34:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Or so that's one proposal is a community information meeting in the special meeting.

[2:34:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Or can we have some educational materials for those frequently asked questions printed

[2:34:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to know a poster and trustee gates and i or i i can be at the market or trustee

[2:34:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): can be at the

[2:34:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): market and we can take those questions like oh but what do you mean by this and then we can bring

[2:34:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that back and that could be a way of fleshing out some of the you know more just the just the

[2:34:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): things that people aren't clear on i know markets aren't great for any technical information it's

[2:35:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): more the awareness information out and then making contact so that people know about the process so

[2:35:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'd be happy to do markets uh or continue with our ocp drop-ins um and if there needs to be budget

[2:35:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a little bit for a sounder wine item or event ad that's kind of the

[2:35:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): direct sounders came

[2:35:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): here but it's supposed to be written by us yeah

[2:35:31] Voice 8: so much to do anyway

[2:35:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know the options table that you've given us is great because really that deals with a lot of

[2:35:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the questions people are asking even in our own even you know here's here's the old here's the

[2:35:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): new here's how it's going to work it's almost like you could i don't know if you don't if you

[2:35:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): can simplify that into a few really essential FAQs. I'm not sure but certainly it was the water

[2:35:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one was great that was super helpful all those FAQs all those questions that that is amazing to

[2:36:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have those. So if you know I'm thinking of something like that but much shorter a one-page

[2:36:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thing we could have with us at the market or at our job with the really big questions that keep

[2:36:22] Voice 8: yeah

[2:36:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'm not sure

[2:36:24] Voice 8: so

[2:36:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'm hearing two things one is um the opportunity for people like maybe an hour

[2:36:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh an hour of time with the special meeting where people can maybe type in their questions

[2:36:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and there's an opportunity to answer one or two or like however many right yeah may not be an

[2:36:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): opportunity to answer them all yeah but maybe it's an opportunity to daylight uh questions that

[2:36:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people have that are similar to each other

[2:36:56] Voice 8: so

[2:36:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that could be um that's an opportunity to collect

[2:37:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions we can

[2:37:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): certainly we've started a a an faq on the website um and and so we can continue

[2:37:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to add to that yeah um i think what would be useful for staff is um i know you might you've

[2:37:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): been sending a lot of questions, I think what would be useful for

[2:37:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): staff is if you could send the questions that you feel are the

[2:37:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): really broad, like the things that many people have questions

[2:37:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about, because I think some of the questions that you've been

[2:37:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sending are ones that are very specific. Yeah. Because it does

[2:37:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): take a fair amount of time to make sure we're giving you the

[2:37:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right answer and that kind of thing but but we're happy to to continue to add to the the FAQ so um

[2:37:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I guess I would ask you to get there that are those top of mind ones to send them out and then

[2:37:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): certainly I don't see that there being a problem with us adding like a you know an hour to the

[2:38:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): our discussion yeah ahead of time we may not be able to answer all the questions but like I said

[2:38:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it would be an opportunity to daylight some um that are there that's you know we find that in

[2:38:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the faq so that could be um that could be a success how long were you estimating the meeting to be

[2:38:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well we'll have to

[2:38:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): see i mean i think i think i think let's make let's let's let's think about

[2:38:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that at the end of um today's meeting because i think part of that will depend on whether you want

[2:38:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): more discussion on the things that we've discussed today right um i think in terms of um like new

[2:38:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): things that are coming in like i think they're we i anticipate we may end up with a few things that

[2:38:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are new um but i i don't anticipate like a huge amount of things so

[2:38:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think you'll really depend

[2:38:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on how you're feeling at the end of this meeting yeah how much time you might need yeah that's

[2:39:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): probably a good idea so i really like this idea um it's less that there's lingering questions out

[2:39:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there i think the questions are being asked and i can see that they're being answered and they're

[2:39:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on our website the challenge is people don't go to the website and they're not going to this place

[2:39:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for information they're talking to neighbors who may or may not have solid information so then we

[2:39:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): keep getting questions re-asked that are already answered so it's more of public communications

[2:39:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's allowing a space where people can bring those concerns and just voice it even if it's

[2:39:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): been asked before and answered I think it's part of our responsibility because people are saying

[2:39:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we don't know where to go we're coming to you and Susan but we want to talk to a planner and just

[2:39:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hear from you oh yeah that's you know we've considered that and here's that answer and

[2:40:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): likely there's not going to be anything major and new it's just it's another way to support

[2:40:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people getting the information they need so i don't think it's going to be like novel um if

[2:40:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we're if we're clear that this is for asking questions for clarity rather than here's my

[2:40:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): opinion here's what i think should happen you know that obviously when we have a draft and

[2:40:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's going out for a formal referral and that's what we want to hear from people just people i

[2:40:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think people need the opportunity to speak we'll probably have time and then well maybe maybe it's

[2:40:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about collecting the questions right so this is what i'm actually hearing right yeah it's about

[2:40:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): collecting the questions and having somebody say uh you know these are very similar questions

[2:40:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): who's the answer so you could you could put a call of questions and and that call the questions

[2:40:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could continue until that day we can have a look at the question we can identify what the questions

[2:41:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are and then we may or may not be able to answer them right away i mean there's also there's

[2:41:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): capacity issues uh it's it's a busy time because every many projects trying to wrap up before the

[2:41:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): end of um term and such right so um uh but but we can certainly uh yes we can do our best well and

[2:41:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and so so us going to market actually this could be the educational opportunity we can have a drop

[2:41:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): box we can have a box of like have a question about the ocp copy the ocp table of changes

[2:41:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): proposed changes we can have a a form that people can fill out and that way they've got a face

[2:41:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about your local trustee. Now I know that the documents there. Here's my question. And then

[2:41:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that could be a way of collecting, you know, what are those outstanding areas of uncertainty?

[2:41:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I mean, that could work. Again, making it very simple. It's just a matter of having,

[2:42:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know, just getting, you know, we can make the form that people can just write on

[2:42:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): things with their question. I have a question about the OCP it is.

[2:42:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. Yeah, very simple.

[2:42:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah i think it's just a touch point to reassure people we are humans engaging in a process and we

[2:42:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): want to hear from them the more everything's mediated through electronics and electronic

[2:42:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): meetings i

[2:42:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think the less trust there is in the process and that's what i'm i'm hearing

[2:42:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they want to have this face-to-face engagement so to me that's the solution is for us trustees to be

[2:42:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): continue to be the face not wasting not spending staff's time you know answering basic questions

[2:42:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but how can we collect those questions and then um yeah so i would i would be happy to do that

[2:42:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this summer yeah oh totally yeah yeah

[2:42:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's i'm available i mean

[2:42:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): summer means vacation time for

[2:43:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): staff too right it also means we get visitors i just got rid of visitors i'm expecting more

[2:43:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): tomorrow, which I love, but it limits your time.

[2:43:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I bet we'll have time for a Q&A, you know, added to our August 6th or 7th meeting,

[2:43:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whatever date we determine.

[2:43:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm amazed we're both available those days.

[2:43:26] Voice 8: Okay,

[2:43:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so how about we would add to the communications and engagement plan an

[2:43:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): an offer, ask questions opportunity to include a box,

[2:43:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions box opportunity through the website, that would

[2:43:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be, you know, do a subscriber list, say, ask your questions.

[2:43:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And, and then, and then we can have a, you know, we could at

[2:43:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): least list the questions at the end. So yeah,

[2:44:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. So that would be the amendment to the communication

[2:44:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): engagement plan. Yeah. Okay. And then in the timeframe, there

[2:44:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be basically from the end of July to a couple of weeks to

[2:44:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): August, August.

[2:44:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I still have a couple of questions about the

[2:44:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): communications plan uh sounder article written by trustees what what would we be writing

[2:44:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's a good question i mean there is a whole new place for okay because we have this wonderful

[2:44:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): reporter to attend our meetings and um you know i i i mean i could easily write an article too but

[2:44:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i find my time is limited and um we could write something about here's where we're at

[2:45:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): here's what we're doing maybe ask us your questions yeah ask you know we can do like that

[2:45:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know and here's where we're at here's where we're going to be over the summer

[2:45:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ask your questions they will go here and that kind of thing this is our elevator pitch

[2:45:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah this is what it is well we

[2:45:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could also have well i wonder do that i think actually there's

[2:45:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to email me the information at any time.

[2:45:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And when's your next deadline?

[2:45:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm going on vacation tomorrow.

[2:45:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes.

[2:45:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So actually, I think there's two articles

[2:45:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that would be needed.

[2:45:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think one right at the beginning of or end of July.

[2:45:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Here's the plan.

[2:45:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Here's where we'll be.

[2:45:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): This is the still early public comment period.

[2:45:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): This is

[2:45:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the time to surface all those questions

[2:45:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that you answered before we get into first reading and then the second article would be

[2:45:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the legislative process like explaining the first reading and the whole charter that we just

[2:46:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): discussed that what is the referral and engagement process received because people might think oh I

[2:46:07] Voice 1: already

[2:46:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gave my comments right there like what why do I have to you know engage with you again

[2:46:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well because it's slightly different now yeah and so I think sort of we always have to re-express

[2:46:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): explain the the process of readings and public hearing so that could be the second one yes

[2:46:24] Voice 3: and late and there's

[2:46:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): always discussion on water so i'm happy to write things yeah yeah

[2:46:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i'm

[2:46:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): happy to write things too if it turns out that we need to do that i mean those are easy to write

[2:46:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but i

[2:46:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): also feel like well we have this wonderful reporter who could also write those same things

[2:46:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): no but this is an invitation from the LTC to the community this is us saying here's here's how we're

[2:46:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): going to engage with you but yeah you're right to come the more the personal touch yeah yeah I agree

[2:46:56] Voice 3: with those

[2:46:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if you're wanting something maybe for end of July I would talk to her too

[2:47:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's coming up for planning thank

[2:47:05] Voice 8: you great

[2:47:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): your other questions other questions just a couple

[2:47:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the typos um the the uh mad article and the sounder towards the bottom there in the middle

[2:47:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): middle cell the sounder needs capital better three times there needs a capital letter and then um

[2:47:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that was it for engagement yeah

[2:47:29] Voice 11: i do know i'm in time for absolute clarity says there

[2:47:34] Voice 11: In the part where you said the referral and engagement response received, and you have in the communications OCP revisions, once first reading is given, well, to referral, First Nations is 90 days.

[2:47:52] Voice 6: Yeah.

[2:47:53] Voice 6: So to me, that should just be a blank period.

[2:47:58] Voice 11: It should be.

[2:47:59] Voice 11: Yeah.

[2:47:59] Voice 11: Yes.

[2:47:59] Voice 6: Because after that period, the OCP revision.

[2:48:02] Voice 6: So I think

[2:48:03] Voice 6: that would just make it more crystal clear that you're not revising while.

[2:48:06] Voice 6: Yeah, good catch.

[2:48:07] Voice 6: Yeah.

[2:48:08] Voice 6: And I would almost

[2:48:12] Voice 6: put the 90 days, you know, just the referral engagement responses for referral

[2:48:18] Voice 11: period is 90 days.

[2:48:26] Voice 11: Any other comments?

[2:48:27] Voice 11: um

[2:48:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah just just to note that any any subscriber notice that goes out should let people know that

[2:48:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they can come pick up any paper copy of the office we we have been encouraging people to do that and

[2:48:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just having a paper copy to hand out was huge people need the physical document i need it

[2:48:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's too much we've both been handing them out not willy-nilly but to people who are

[2:49:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): really interested in show up to the the dropping sessions yeah yeah well it's gosh for a government

[2:49:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that produces a paper at an enormous rate you should be able to do that um okay so i definitely

[2:49:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): support the revised engagement plan with a potential community information meeting but

[2:49:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should we talk about that or uh sorry with the potential community information meeting in the

[2:49:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): special meeting we need to well we can so the the resolution is as discussed at the july uh

[2:49:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so okay i think um it i think we're what we decided on is that we're asking people for

[2:49:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questions so it isn't necessarily a community information meeting that's happening then it's

[2:49:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): more of a we've heard you and this is what we've heard situation but you still want people not

[2:49:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): off with having to like so say say this meeting is two hours long well then an added hour for people

[2:49:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to come and submit their questions while like prior to you having a discussion okay yeah yeah

[2:50:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah but it will have to be really tightly moderated so that one person doesn't pick up

[2:50:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the entire well i think what it might be is just write your question yeah write your question in

[2:50:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes. Yeah. And we'd have a deadline because often they're similar and you'd want to be

[2:50:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so you have something. You might you might want to have a deadline of well I guess when the

[2:50:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): agenda is published. So so we've we talked about having a deadline of August 5th for people to

[2:50:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to provide questions and so I think what we're trying to trying to get a sense of from you now

[2:50:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is this additional opportunity during the meeting to ask questions and so what i'm hearing is

[2:50:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um well what i'm suggesting and is is that we basically just ask people to ask their questions

[2:51:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): write their questions because we'll only have an hour so that's an opportunity for the people to

[2:51:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): see what the questions additional questions are we can we can have a list of the questions we've

[2:51:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): already received um like i said we may not have answers for all of them we may have answers for

[2:51:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): some of them at that point in time but this hour is an additional time for people just to sit and

[2:51:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ask their questions yeah they've been asking for that they would be appreciated okay okay

[2:51:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so it'll be our plan as revised yeah so shall we make that motion sure i moved at the gabriella

[2:51:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): island local trust committee endorsed the changes to the gabriella official community plan

[2:51:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and phase four communication and engagement plan

[2:51:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): as revised at the July 16th, 2026

[2:51:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Gabriela Island Local Trust Committee meeting.

[2:51:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Is there a second?

[2:51:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Second by Trustee Elliott.

[2:51:56] Voice 11: Any discussion?

[2:51:58] Voice 11: All those in favor?

[2:52:00] Voice 11: And that carries.

[2:52:02] Voice 11: We're gonna hold off on the option.

[2:52:10] Voice 11: Wanna

[2:52:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): do the special meeting now

[2:52:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and determine the date, 6th or the 7th?

[2:52:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think

[2:52:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the 6th is good.

[2:52:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Are you

[2:52:22] Voice 8: able to do

[2:52:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that, Hunter Chadwick?

[2:52:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think so.

[2:52:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm just going to check my calculator.

[2:52:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, the 6th is better.

[2:52:33] Voice 8: Good.

[2:52:34] Voice 8: Ms. Fitzgerald, we need to

[2:52:35] Voice 11: confirm the contract

[2:52:37] Voice 11: and the pickering of homes.

[2:52:39] Voice 11: So I would maybe

[2:52:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not suggest to set a specific time of day.

[2:52:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we should keep our calendars open for at least those two days, I think.

[2:52:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I

[2:52:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): guess that's what.

[2:52:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:52:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well,

[2:52:56] Voice 11: the motion just says to schedule it.

[2:52:58] Voice 11: So

[2:52:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would we need to say business meeting, including a community information portion?

[2:53:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think we discussed it.

[2:53:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think we discussed the nature of that meeting.

[2:53:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:53:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Right.

[2:53:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[2:53:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we're ready?

[2:53:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:53:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm going to put the Gabriela Island Local Trust Committee request staff schedule an electronic special trust committee meeting, business meeting to review input from the community on the draft official community plan prior to first reading the bylaw.

[2:53:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And second that.

[2:53:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All right. Any discussion?

[2:53:36] Voice 11: Both and all those in favor? That carries.

[2:53:42] Voice 11: So now do we want to go back and do the options and then the printer?

[2:53:47] Voice 11: Well,

[2:53:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): again, I think that the options is the most detailed and

[2:53:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we

[2:53:53] Voice 8: did the business case. Yeah, that one is

[2:54:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): basically finishing off the project. Yeah,

[2:54:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so it just considers, you know, engagement aspects, and then, and then it is the potential

[2:54:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the AOA not being completed by that period of time.

[2:54:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So there's a portion of funding that would have been,

[2:54:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would basically be a carryover.

[2:54:27] Voice 8: Yeah.

[2:54:28] Voice 8: One more?

[2:54:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:54:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It looks really, I mean, it looks really good to me.

[2:54:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All we have to hope is that the next local committee is also

[2:54:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): OK with that.

[2:54:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[2:54:42] Voice 3: And how so?

[2:54:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): If the next local committee were to be able to do the whole thing

[2:54:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean usually when these are presented to council too for for approval and funding they

[2:54:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they're usually so well done that you know they get what it needs yeah you know I couldn't find

[2:55:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anything missing so I'd be fine to go ahead with that motion are you ready

[2:55:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so is this additional legal contingency we're not are we not doing legal review

[2:55:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you we have been doing we have

[2:55:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): elements of we go we need to keep going okay but it's always

[2:55:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah in case yeah great this looks like a much simpler business case than i've seen before

[2:55:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there used to be like five well i think we i think there's been some work being done

[2:55:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so

[2:55:36] Voice 11: good

[2:55:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): issue opportunity that's great yes okay well let's go for that one then

[2:55:44] Voice 3: I

[2:55:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know that the Gabriela Island Local Task Committee approves a 2027-28 business case supporting the completion of the Gabriela Official Community Plan and Land Use By-law Review Project.

[2:55:59] Voice 8: One second.

[2:56:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Actually, sorry.

[2:56:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Just on page 106, the first page, tied to unstressed guiding documents.

[2:56:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Would it be good to add the Indigenous Relations Action Plan?

[2:56:23] Voice 8: We don't have it

[2:56:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yet, but it's approved.

[2:56:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, we can add it.

[2:56:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And the Referral Work Plan, which is part of it, I guess.

[2:56:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, it just says guiding documents and that was a little work plan specific to Project

[2:57:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Realize.

[2:57:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Any other changes?

[2:57:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No.

[2:57:04] Voice 11: So that motion has not been seconded.

[2:57:07] Voice 11: It would be then as amended.

[2:57:13] Voice 11: Is this case as amended?

[2:57:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): As amended at this meeting?

[2:57:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Just as amended.

[2:57:21] Voice 11: This is a case. Okay. Also, now it's any discussion. Motion. All those in favor, please use hands that carries. Alright, so we're doing fresh water footprint first. Sure.

[2:57:40] Voice 11: Very selectively here.

[2:57:43] Voice 11: It's good to get

[2:57:44] Voice 11: Things checked on. Alright, so this begins on page 80 and I see

[2:57:52] Voice 11: So I'm sure those joined us.

[2:57:55] Voice 11: Willing, do you want to introduce this?

[2:57:59] Voice 2: Sure, Chair.

[2:58:02] Voice 2: The briefing is pretty simple.

[2:58:05] Voice 2: It is providing high-resolution PDFs of the map,

[2:58:12] Voice 2: which I did notice in the agenda package were compressed,

[2:58:16] Voice 2: so the agenda package isn't showing the full resolution of the maps,

[2:58:20] Voice 2: but it's better than what it was.

[2:58:22] Voice 2: and then into a comprehensive frequently asked questions document which is hyperlinked so you

[2:58:32] Voice 2: can click on a question in the table of questions and I'll take you to that page and then on top of

[2:58:40] Voice 2: each page is a return button to the table of questions so that's helpful when it's not in

[2:58:48] Voice 2: paper form but it also does print well and um yeah it it it's meant to be somewhat of a living

[2:58:56] Voice 2: document i've reviewed it several times now since it's been in the agenda package and there's some

[2:59:00] Voice 2: awkward wording but um other than a few little fixes um i think that it's a a good resource that

[2:59:08] Voice 2: was um requested of and directed by the local trust committee so i appreciate that and um yeah

[2:59:16] Voice 2: Yeah, I'm open to take any questions that the LTC has on that or for next steps. Thanks.

[2:59:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so thanks, William, for producing a better map. It's helpful. The first thing people do is

[2:59:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they look for their lot. And when their lot is tiny, so what I've been hearing is that

[2:59:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the critical aquifer recharge area map

[2:59:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): looks like there's two tones of gray

[2:59:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and it may or may not be that.

[2:59:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It may just be the parcels are so small

[2:59:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that they look like a darker gray area.

[2:59:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But is this just...

[3:00:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): mapping the critical aquifer recharge area and there isn't a second one uh

[3:00:07] Voice 2: yes uh yeah uh through

[3:00:09] Voice 2: the chair you're completely right um trustee elliott that the um the darker gray is just

[3:00:16] Voice 2: from the density of the lot lines okay so uh to to remedy that uh we can produce a map uh without

[3:00:25] Voice 2: out the lot lines and and just be the critical aqua recharge areas um i tried some other like

[3:00:32] Voice 2: cartography logic to clear that up and it wasn't really working but that's that optical effect

[3:00:37] Voice 2: yeah it's so um that being said if you look at the areas that are white like that are shining

[3:00:46] Voice 2: through then those are the areas not in critical aqua recharge areas so that's just like the

[3:00:51] Voice 2: opposite of that so looking at um all the gray areas as one thing not two separate things

[3:01:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): then the second question which you kind of answer in the in frequently asked questions about

[3:01:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um sort of the weighting of i guess aquifer stress is it um there's no explanation on the

[3:01:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the map that says you know the or that sort of describes a critical unless I'm missing something

[3:01:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was there a note explaining it like what we're looking at or what you know percentages are what

[3:01:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): values went into that like because I don't know how to explain this to people and that if I can

[3:01:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): point them to a question specifically or an answer what are the critical you know question 40

[3:01:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it just says what is it but the values that went into creating that maybe it would be helpful to

[3:02:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have a link to what section of the report if that's in the report yeah

[3:02:09] Voice 2: through the chair so

[3:02:10] Voice 2: the the frequently asked questions is is not um like a coles nose for the report right so

[3:02:16] Voice 2: So the simply defining what aquifer stress is, which is not on a map, right?

[3:02:23] Voice 2: We're talking, right?

[3:02:24] Voice 2: We have critical aquifer recharge areas is one map that's from the groundwater recharge.

[3:02:28] Voice 2: We already had that before the freshwater footprint work.

[3:02:32] Voice 2: And then from the freshwater footprint work, we have the freshwater hazard map, which the

[3:02:40] Voice 2: one in front of you has been buffered and then filtered for planning purposes.

[3:02:44] Voice 2: The aquifer stress is defined in the frequently asked questions and that definition just comes from the report itself.

[3:02:54] Voice 2: And then in the report it goes through more detail what aquifer stress is and the methodology that GW Solutions developed to come up with that analysis.

[3:03:05] Voice 2: Okay,

[3:03:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so aquifer stress is new information, and it's in the report, and the critical aquifer

[3:03:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): recharge, we already had that.

[3:03:16] Voice 2: It was from a previous, it was from the aquifer recharge project, which, and aquifer conceptualization

[3:03:22] Voice 2: work that happened for Gabriola, and Denman and Hornby, that project together was 2022,

[3:03:31] Voice 2: I believe.

[3:03:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay yeah i i would like to see briefing notes to explain that just just what you said it would be

[3:03:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): helpful yeah i agree because there's just so much terminology people don't know what they're looking

[3:03:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): at and i get confused trying to explain it i shouldn't try to explain it so thank you for

[3:03:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that explanation like toby do you mean like could it just be added to this question no i think like

[3:03:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or no right on the map well not on the map but there should be uh notation somewhere yeah but

[3:04:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if this is going to be because we're approving this to attach to the draft ocp yeah that policy

[3:04:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): document needs to sort of say oh well maybe it does i don't know where but yeah just

[3:04:19] Voice 2: so we know

[3:04:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that through

[3:04:21] Voice 2: the chair of for the project that um we undertook on galliano um for the development

[3:04:29] Voice 2: permit area for groundwater protection that used the groundwater recharge mapping work that I

[3:04:38] Voice 2: provided like a pretty comprehensive technical memorandum that came with the maps so that's

[3:04:46] Voice 2: also a possibility that I could provide to the LTC an additional staff report that

[3:04:54] Voice 2: directly just discusses the maps and where they came from and the methodology that that resulted

[3:05:02] Voice 2: in them because it's not just from the gw solutions report both of them uh they're those

[3:05:08] Voice 2: maps are processed by islands trust staff and so

[3:05:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's a methodology yeah okay

[3:05:15] Voice 2: and

[3:05:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'll so if i

[3:05:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could go on chair so where this is coming from is it's a it continues to be a translation issue

[3:05:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the community um we so appreciate having the technical report the science that we are basing

[3:05:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy decisions on and folks are still struggling to translate that in recent in the engagement

[3:05:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): process um i've spoken to two professional hydrogeologists who live on the island one of

[3:05:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whom you might be familiar with um and the second um has offered to help with technical translation

[3:05:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the public and so if that would be if you if you'd be willing to work with somebody who

[3:06:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): who lives here who's she's reviewed the report um thinks it's fabulous is very familiar with

[3:06:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the founder of gw solutions and and you know sort of from a from the overview that um she gave said

[3:06:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the methodology sound really you know have has some questions um but what what are your thoughts

[3:06:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on having a community member with a professional background to help with any gaps that people are

[3:06:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are still chilling in with their own information is kind of what's happening um

[3:06:46] Voice 2: yeah so through

[3:06:47] Voice 2: the chair there's two methods of doing that one is um informal and they send an inquiry to

[3:06:53] Voice 2: freshwater email and i handle it as an inquiry and then the second one is more formal if the ltc

[3:07:00] Voice 2: passes a resolution to work with a community group or a member of the community we've

[3:07:07] Voice 2: we've we've done that before so it's kind of the will of the LTC there I

[3:07:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have a motion for that

[3:07:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so I'll save

[3:07:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it and just a quick question with regard to that um working with a member of the

[3:07:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): community or a group um is this is it assumed that this work will always be unpaid like just

[3:07:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I know she doesn't she didn't say anything about payment but is that just the assumption because

[3:07:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because we don't budget for that.

[3:07:33] Voice 2: Yeah, through the chair, I have no idea this is,

[3:07:36] Voice 2: so the analysis would start on understanding

[3:07:39] Voice 2: what this would even be, right?

[3:07:42] Voice 2: We've worked with other professionals

[3:07:45] Voice 2: in the Islands Trust area and academics

[3:07:48] Voice 2: from different universities

[3:07:49] Voice 2: and every relationship is different

[3:07:53] Voice 2: and it could be a memorandum of understanding

[3:07:55] Voice 2: or it could just be an informal thing.

[3:07:58] Voice 2: It's just, we would have to work with planning staff

[3:08:01] Voice 2: um to figure out what that would be and then that's how we would approach it that's good

[3:08:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so some of the feedback was common like common language for describing areas uh or

[3:08:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): nomenclature the different presentation of overlays potentially and and so this person

[3:08:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just wants to support the process and the community's understanding um and i guess that

[3:08:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we could give direction and that you could have a conversation and see what um i i think you know

[3:08:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the answers to the questions are huge i learned so much from what you've written here uh these

[3:08:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 63 questions so thank you so much for that i now understand the project and the work a lot better

[3:08:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i think we're moving really well along this path of translating technical information

[3:08:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): into usable you know concepts that the public can grasp and you know then debate policy about

[3:09:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's still some potential gaps and so it's an offering from somebody who you know respects the

[3:09:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): work and is really happy to do that yeah

[3:09:19] Voice 2: through the chair the you know the intention of the

[3:09:22] Voice 2: the frequently asked questions is to increase water literacy in the island's trust area and

[3:09:28] Voice 2: includes myself i mean i learned a lot answering the questions as well um and part of the success

[3:09:36] Voice 2: of this project is with the freshwater footprint was its connection to the community and hearing

[3:09:44] Voice 2: community members and you know that's not as just tidy as as a forum in a workshop it comes in all

[3:09:51] Voice 2: different forms um especially in the island stress area it's so unique um and the knowledge that that

[3:09:59] Voice 2: exists on islands so um yeah i i am open to to hearing it and like i said it could be an inquiry

[3:10:06] Voice 2: which is um i've handled a lot of those over the course of this project uh or something more formal

[3:10:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so before you go for that the motion toby i just had one question to ask them

[3:10:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): William, this is, first of all, thank you so much, because the 63 questions are, wow,

[3:10:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): very, that's amazing work that you've done there, really collating the questions, some

[3:10:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of which have come from us, but most of which have come from the

[3:10:41] Voice 11: public, and answering them

[3:10:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so thoroughly, I'm so appreciative of that.

[3:10:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I do have one more question, and this came from a hydropneologist in the community, and

[3:10:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And it has to do with the groundwater regions, but not.

[3:10:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because the province looks at Gabriola with those two aquifers.

[3:10:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They have, you know, AQ70 something and AQ730 something.

[3:11:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I remember talking to you about this earlier.

[3:11:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So the northeast peninsula, sort of, of Gabriola is one aquifer.

[3:11:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then the entire rest of the island is another aquifer.

[3:11:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I do know that between those two regions, there's a giant fault line.

[3:11:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Is that why the province considers them two aquifers?

[3:11:26] Voice 2: Yeah, they're two distinct geological units, so they can be classified as two different aquifers, and so they are.

[3:11:36] Voice 2: um but when the for author for water authorizations uh the province does use

[3:11:43] Voice 2: groundwater regions as one of their lenses and when they're adjudicating um water demand on the

[3:11:50] Voice 2: islands so um the the aquifer the aquifers in the island's trust area actually act as more

[3:12:00] Voice 2: more governance structures. So aquifers can have aquifer notations on them. So say the risk of

[3:12:08] Voice 2: saltwater intrusion is high, that aquifer would get that notation. Or if there's an issue with

[3:12:15] Voice 2: some other quality, like there are some advisories of arsenic in the Islands Trust area on some

[3:12:21] Voice 2: aquifers. And so when there's work being done in that aquifer, say by water authorizations,

[3:12:28] Voice 2: then they they're compelled to look at those aquifer notations um so so it's it's it it is

[3:12:37] Voice 2: based on a geological definition which i provided in the frequently asked questions um and but it's

[3:12:45] Voice 2: also like a governance structure but but the province does know about the groundwater region

[3:12:50] Voice 2: i mean they they're the ones that drew them in the first place and we're just using them

[3:12:54] Voice 2: in the same way of of determining water authorizations and water budget based on

[3:12:59] Voice 2: these groundwater regions that are you know on the same scale as a collection of some watersheds

[3:13:05] Voice 2: and they all relate together so they're water management units not to say that that they're

[3:13:11] Voice 2: distinct water catchment features and it's not networked into the rest of the island that's

[3:13:18] Voice 2: that's not the point it's more looking at the governance unit as much as it is determined by

[3:13:25] Voice 2: the natural shape of the island thanks yes

[3:13:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and what i really appreciate with the mapping that

[3:13:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was done to show the the regions is it clearly shows the topography and the drainage with the

[3:13:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): arrows so you can understand oh yeah that's almost like a mini watershed each of those regions and

[3:13:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that's very helpful.

[3:13:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So thank you.

[3:13:46] Voice 2: Yeah, and sorry, through the chair, based on that, in the Act for Conceptualization and Recharge mapping projects, we have in there the methodology that we modernized the groundwater regions where they needed to be.

[3:14:03] Voice 2: And some islands didn't have them.

[3:14:04] Voice 2: And so all the elements that went into determining groundwater region boundaries are in there.

[3:14:11] Voice 2: And of course, topography is one of them with watershed boundaries.

[3:14:14] Voice 2: and and then um there's there's um another approach where if there's a density of wells

[3:14:21] Voice 2: together then they're included in the groundwater region because the the idea is that groundwater

[3:14:26] Voice 2: regions the water users in those regions with the wells are sharing the the immediate recharge with

[3:14:33] Voice 2: each other that's the kind of concept yeah

[3:14:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's really clear thank you yeah

[3:14:38] Voice 2: well

[3:14:41] Voice 6: i i have my

[3:14:42] Voice 6: My question is, talk about the pay for the project.

[3:14:48] Voice 6: You talk about that the maps will only be updated

[3:14:50] Voice 6: if the science is updated.

[3:14:57] Voice 6: My question was though, who owns the model?

[3:15:01] Voice 6: I mean, because science is not just the only input

[3:15:07] Voice 6: into this, some of this was data use and changes

[3:15:10] Voice 6: or rainfall and climate change is doing what climate change is doing so the model may need

[3:15:17] Voice 6: to be updated who owns the model um

[3:15:21] Voice 2: so models uh is a difficult term so i'll just put that

[3:15:27] Voice 2: to the side for a second um the methodology was developed for the islands trust so

[3:15:32] Voice 2: So the resultant maps that were generated from first principles and open data from either

[3:15:43] Voice 2: the Islands Trust or the province's data catalog, even the data that was provided to

[3:15:55] Voice 2: GW Solutions as part of this work, say from Island Health, we got a lot of water quality

[3:16:00] Voice 2: data uh all of that data is available to the islands trust and we have free access to use

[3:16:07] Voice 2: that primary data we have free access to have the model and and for the output what what we don't

[3:16:17] Voice 2: require usually in these cases is be the deep under the hood processing work that a consultant

[3:16:25] Voice 2: resultant needs to do in order to deliver on the methodology so if there is some say machine

[3:16:32] Voice 2: learning thing that they built around the Wells database we wouldn't have that python code but

[3:16:38] Voice 2: we would have the resultant Excel file that they or the data you know the yeah the CSV or some

[3:16:46] Voice 2: sort of file that resulted in that work so there there's there's places in the whole process where

[3:16:54] Voice 2: Our Islands Trust is not privy to the tools that are developed in the course of the project that the consultant needed to build to deliver on it, but we have free access to the deliverables of the project and the methodology and the data that went into it.

[3:17:12] Voice 2: So if it was a significant change to, say, the freshwater hazard resultant map, that would likely require that expertise to initiate those tools to take the methodology into its deliverables, the maps, and provide that to staff.

[3:17:38] Voice 2: of course on the staff side we know how to process raster maps and indeed that's what we did so the

[3:17:45] Voice 2: resultant map you see in front of you is is from staff from the raw data that we got from gw

[3:17:51] Voice 2: solutions from their gis package that they provided us so all of the all of the elements in the request

[3:17:58] Voice 2: for proposal the islands trust put forward before gw solutions was procured for this project was

[3:18:05] Voice 2: delivered on. We didn't ask for some, you know, esoteric Python code or something. They delivered

[3:18:13] Voice 2: on the spatial database that we needed from the project and the, of course, the workshop

[3:18:21] Voice 2: deliverables and then the final report. And that's what we asked them to do in addition to

[3:18:28] Voice 2: cleaning and structuring the primary data.

[3:18:31] Voice 6: I mean, my concern just stemmed from, I always

[3:18:33] Voice 6: always read the fine print at the end of the reports and was one of the fine prints in there

[3:18:38] Voice 6: was basically that they had to do any of the changes if there were any changes in data so

[3:18:43] Voice 6: that one stuck out to me like a sore thumb

[3:18:45] Voice 11: so yeah

[3:18:46] Voice 2: so uh yeah through the chair you are the chair um

[3:18:50] Voice 2: through the chair that is you um yeah based on that

[3:18:53] Voice 2: um i think like there's uh there's also

[3:18:58] Voice 2: a process here right so the the idea is that during their work it'd be distracting if staff

[3:19:05] Voice 2: were going in there and changing the values that they're working with i mean that would just be a

[3:19:10] Voice 2: conflict but then following that like we i'm very clear that the resultant freshwater hazard map

[3:19:18] Voice 2: that's in front of the ltc today is that of staffs and we have buffered and filtered it in a way and

[3:19:24] Voice 2: And now we have, it seems like the LTC is signaling to staff to provide more information

[3:19:31] Voice 2: on that.

[3:19:31] Voice 2: But we're not saying that that's GW Solutions' final map.

[3:19:36] Voice 2: They provided us the raw information that's going into that.

[3:19:42] Voice 2: And so that raw data file from GW Solutions, we can't change it.

[3:19:49] Voice 2: No, that's what they stamped on and provided to us.

[3:19:52] Voice 2: So if we're going to use that data now we're taking responsibility of of the freshwater hazard scheduled map that we have that's in front of the LTC, that's, that's, that's responsibility of staff, based on the raw data from GW solutions.

[3:20:09] Voice 2: Yeah,

[3:20:10] Voice 6: I think the question 42 should probably be a little bit more clarified because, you know, will the maps be updated over time and basically only only at the science.

[3:20:19] Voice 6: improves so

[3:20:21] Voice 2: okay so yeah so if the science improves that means say if we get if there's a

[3:20:29] Voice 2: big push and we get 10 or 12 extra groundwater monitoring wells across the island or something

[3:20:34] Voice 2: like that and the science improves and there's an opportunity to to further develop these maps and

[3:20:40] Voice 2: then that opportunity exists where it comes down to say if the parcel fabric changes if there's a

[3:20:47] Voice 2: subdivision on Gabriel next year and we get a new parcel fabric, that change is on staff side

[3:20:54] Voice 2: because we're the ones that did the intersect with the parcels from GW Solutions raw data.

[3:21:00] Voice 2: So the raw data can only change if there is somewhat of a major update to that work. But

[3:21:08] Voice 2: doing administrative tweaks to the two maps that are provided, that's on the staff side.

[3:21:17] Voice 2: so we we're free to do that

[3:21:19] Voice 6: i'm just encouraging i think just instead of saying signs i think

[3:21:22] Voice 6: be better just to say significant data to change his input you know i think just broaden that a

[3:21:28] Voice 6: little bit because you know

[3:21:31] Voice 6: there could be a number of things that

[3:21:33] Voice 3: they

[3:21:34] Voice 6: may ask you to revisit

[3:21:36] Voice 6: the maps in the future we go into a five-year drought that won't drop a rain you know there

[3:21:43] Voice 6: are things that could

[3:21:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be unusual. So the science might improve but other conditions could worsen

[3:21:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but could have a serious effect yeah what might be bad yeah or

[3:21:55] Voice 2: a minor update yeah no that that's a

[3:21:57] Voice 2: good point I'll that's a good one too yeah thank you yeah that's a good one all right other

[3:22:04] Voice 11: questions on this document go

[3:22:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ahead yeah so um again I really really appreciate you answering

[3:22:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): needs because and in the way that you did it just again it taught me so much and it actually

[3:22:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): confirms a lot of the feedback i've heard from older gabrielans who are like i i know this about

[3:22:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that area and they'll tell me an anecdotal story um you know for instance you know sandstone is

[3:22:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is hard and hold little water it doesn't translate and i was like yeah that's what this is saying

[3:22:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay there's coherence here so thank you so much for doing that work um back to i think i have one

[3:22:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i

[3:22:50] Voice 2: just want to comment on that yeah um i i'm like i'm a trained geoscientist and i studied

[3:22:57] Voice 2: studying practice hydrogeology for over a decade and it it was a hard uh concept to grasp that

[3:23:05] Voice 2: that this that the shale is the aquifer and and that and and that work stemmed really from the

[3:23:11] Voice 2: work of Dr. Diana Allen and and and her work on this island and um yeah so it's it's different

[3:23:20] Voice 2: in in most like sedimentary aquifers the sandstone of the producer and the shales are the

[3:23:26] Voice 2: are the confining layer and just so happens that the island is backwards and I like that

[3:23:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's really interesting. I learned that on a geology tour of Gabriel on the committee bus.

[3:23:38] Voice 10: Of course.

[3:23:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So yeah, I just want to go back to the freshwater hazard map because I have two questions.

[3:23:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So the one that we have in the draft community plan and then the one that we're looking at today

[3:23:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They are slightly different in that the previous one had a pink or orange freshwater hazard

[3:24:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): area and then the gray freshwater hazard parcel intersection with buffering and filtering.

[3:24:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So then I, you know, you answered the questions about what is buffering and filtering.

[3:24:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Why are we not seeing the pink or is this just a different overlay or a different output

[3:24:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and why?

[3:24:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh

[3:24:21] Voice 2: yeah the schedule map would be the um the final parcel intersect so for the um the galliano

[3:24:31] Voice 2: development permit area we did the same thing i presented on the uh raw data groundwater and then

[3:24:39] Voice 2: and then overlay that on the parcel intersect to show the difference and so you've seen that

[3:24:45] Voice 2: But for the actual scheduled map that will go into the OCP, it'll just be which parcels met the threshold of inclusion, which is over 10% of freshwater hazard inside their property boundaries.

[3:25:03] Voice 2: So then they're just included and then that, and from the filtered and buffered, well, sorry, the buffering includes the parcels and the filtering, we're filtering in and out parcels based on like their designation in the LEB and other planning kind of considerations.

[3:25:25] Voice 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[3:25:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So, so again, I think I would like to see whether it's a briefing or some kind of explanation because when people look at this map, there is confusion about, you know, in the previous one we've got we've got pink areas that are that go over parcels so clearly that's, you know, something that's defining the groundwater action.

[3:25:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and then separated parcels.

[3:25:59] Voice 2: Just to jump in there, it's not groundwater action,

[3:26:02] Voice 2: that's freshwater hazard.

[3:26:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Freshwater hazard, thank you.

[3:26:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then in the hazard parcels,

[3:26:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which is just defined by lot area,

[3:26:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people might go, why is it separated by parcels?

[3:26:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Like, it just needs a little explanation,

[3:26:24] Voice 3: which

[3:26:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is kind of what you just said.

[3:26:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know, that helps translate the information would be great.

[3:26:33] Voice 2: Sure. Yes.

[3:26:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We're not here for more. That would be. So the revolution I

[3:26:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): had about working with a resident, or there's actually

[3:26:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): two professional hydro geologists one of whom is

[3:26:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): retiring. Are you ready for that motion? Sure. Okay. I moved with

[3:26:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gabriel island local trust committee requests that staff work with local professional hydrogeologists

[3:27:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and you can say residing on gabriel but local is what i mean we wish to support the development

[3:27:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of educational and interpretive communications materials related to the freshwater footprint

[3:27:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): project for supporting community understanding of the technical reports and potential policy

[3:27:25] Voice 8: I

[3:27:26] Voice 9: guess I have a question of how this fits in with your work plan and you have an existing

[3:27:38] Voice 9: project, the OCP project, so does this form part of that and what in that communications

[3:27:46] Voice 9: and engagement plan, how does it fit in in terms of timing and how is it going to support

[3:27:52] Voice 9: that project or is this a distinct project that the LGC is looking at and um

[3:27:57] Voice 8: I it's it's a pretty

[3:28:02] Voice 8: open-ended

[3:28:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not necessarily a distinct project but because the conversation is ongoing about

[3:28:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water and there are community groups organizing dialogues about water what I see is the trustees

[3:28:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and community members acknowledge there were kind of links to the community to kind of clarify

[3:28:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): clarify what is still not understood what do we need to clarify and it might be uh explain this

[3:28:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): map better and a hydrogeologist can can either point to the existing information like oh here

[3:28:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it is in the report and i could just produce a paragraph that explains that or maybe work with

[3:28:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): william on a different output because it's not clear or on a briefing note so it's not asking

[3:28:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for a separate project but communications how we communicate out materials somebody's offering now

[3:29:00] Voice 9: so i think it would be clearest if it was included in that communications engagement plan then

[3:29:06] Voice 9: and that way it's also clear when what the timing is is this something that's happening

[3:29:11] Voice 9: prior to first reading in the next month or which i don't know comment like we would need to i guess

[3:29:17] Voice 9: it's absolutely it feels like there's some flexities and to make sure that we're actually

[3:29:22] Voice 9: delivering what you're asking for in a way that's that's

[3:29:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): realistic yeah

[3:29:26] Voice 9: realistic and helpful well

[3:29:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i was thinking they would more work with william who i'm asking for more briefing notes for things

[3:29:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um so i wasn't thinking to put more on your plates okay

[3:29:43] Voice 3: and

[3:29:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it sounded like william was

[3:29:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): willing to to work to at least assess what could be done but I'm not wanting

[3:29:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to put a timeline on it this could be after first reading this could be

[3:30:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just to help support the process.

[3:30:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I wasn't meaning to put it in a different place.

[3:30:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't

[3:30:10] Voice 9: know which process, the OCP?

[3:30:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): More the Freshwater Footprint, specific to this project, which is closed.

[3:30:21] Voice 9: Closed?

[3:30:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[3:30:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So

[3:30:23] Voice 9: that was fitting within that OCP project, to be able to see that.

[3:30:27] Voice 6: That is how it is, yeah.

[3:30:29] Voice 9: Yeah,

[3:30:29] Voice 6: I was going to have one suggestion, I think that the, then you're about to take a motion that you receive accept this report, don't accept this report, you want this report revised or reviewed after the input from I'm just trying to find where does this belong.

[3:30:45] Voice 6: That might be where this belongs. If the outcome needs to be described, if this is meant to be a communications piece, it's going to reside somewhere.

[3:30:53] Voice 6: The Q&A, the fact that the frequently asked questions, you're talking about communicating this material.

[3:31:04] Voice 11: But

[3:31:04] Voice 6: I mean, for staff to understand where this can belong, this is a home, this is a product.

[3:31:10] Voice 6: Well,

[3:31:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm actually trying to help alleviate some of the load.

[3:31:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You know, William said there's two paths.

[3:31:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): When people have questions, they can write to Freshwater at Atlas Trust, and he can answer individually.

[3:31:24] Voice 8: And

[3:31:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that is what's happening.

[3:31:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's quite a load.

[3:31:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if there is in our engagement over the summer we're hearing questions related

[3:31:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to translating technical material there could be if William is willing to work

[3:31:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with a community member to help answer some of those questions or produce

[3:31:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something different that's not really getting a policy direction it's just

[3:31:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): clarifying the material that exists would that not so

[3:31:57] Voice 2: through the chair just through the through

[3:32:00] Voice 2: the chair on that uh me accepting like or receiving inquiries and and responding is my daily job i

[3:32:09] Voice 2: mean that's what i do all the time um coordinating with like you didn't really even mention names

[3:32:16] Voice 2: you said hydrogeologists from across gabriel and there's probably at least a dozen so

[3:32:22] Voice 2: So coordinating with community members and going through a meaningful process is that's part of a project, this project, right?

[3:32:32] Voice 2: Rather than just me receiving an inquiry via email and I'm answering it back.

[3:32:38] Voice 2: That's just me communicating with the residents as part of my daily job.

[3:32:44] Voice 2: So I think that your ask is reversed of effort.

[3:32:49] Voice 2: If you pass the resolution to work with hydrogeologists on Gabriola, I'm not suggesting that I don't want to do that.

[3:33:01] Voice 2: I'm just saying that's significant than just receiving it if someone writes me an email and I read it.

[3:33:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[3:33:09] Voice 2: Go ahead, Justine.

[3:33:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I have an idea.

[3:33:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I do think that we should receive this freshwater footprint briefing and fact document as is.

[3:33:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um it's and and go from there here's an idea i i think i know the two hydrogeologists um you

[3:33:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): refer to they're definitely legitimate they definitely support our process um i'm thinking

[3:33:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that we should ask them and i think i know that both of them are already attending this talk this

[3:33:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gabriella talks meeting on the 23rd about water and i'm thinking we should talk to them at that

[3:33:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): meeting and in front of the public who are attending that meeting, I think it's

[3:33:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): going to be very well attended, to see how they can help us at our meetings, our

[3:34:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): meet and greet meetings, our OCP update meetings. I'm thinking that we should

[3:34:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): come and do them ourselves for helpful interpretation of things that

[3:34:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that shouldn't become a project or extra work

[3:34:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that we need to add to a schedule.

[3:34:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm thinking their best work might be literally with us

[3:34:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): through these sorts of things,

[3:34:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but to make sure we include them.

[3:34:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We absolutely certainly come to these meetings

[3:34:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and they're available to help us interpret.

[3:34:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Like someone say someone asks at this meeting,

[3:34:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): asks us a pretty technical question

[3:34:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): question about groundwater on Gabriel and we don't find it in in William's report perhaps one of

[3:34:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): these two people can help us answer that question and and see how that process works. I think that

[3:34:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is the desire the desire is to support community understanding of the materials that are already

[3:34:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): presented. I guess the question that was asked by Liz was about comparison between past and future

[3:35:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): future map, current mapping, about climate change elements, and how, whether different

[3:35:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): overlays might be created. So there were some specific questions that she had, and I just

[3:35:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): haven't had enough time to connect you to. Perhaps, let's just, can I connect you with

[3:35:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the people in question, or the person in question who's offered, and we just won't make a

[3:35:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): resolution and we'll see how this process goes in the next month and if we need more

[3:35:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): information translation we can ask for that in the august meeting yes that's what i would suggest

[3:35:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that let's connect these two with william okay economic discussion we can have a discussion

[3:36:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): around the process and then we can come back at the august meeting and talk about whether there's

[3:36:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any um any any resolution required in order to allocate staff time yeah i mean right now

[3:36:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what we're talking about right now is just our general us connecting with community members who

[3:36:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have uh who have some insight they want to share that's that's part of our agenda okay

[3:36:27] Voice 8: yeah great

[3:36:30] Voice 8: yeah any

[3:36:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): other questions on the um no

[3:36:35] Voice 8: i think i

[3:36:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think i might need to make this

[3:36:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean, there was a spelling mistake.

[3:36:44] Voice 2: Chair, if I may, so I'm returning to the LTC with further work regarding the maps,

[3:36:57] Voice 2: either by way of, it's likely going to just be a staff report.

[3:37:01] Voice 2: Is there a resolution for that?

[3:37:03] Voice 2: Do we need a resolution for that?

[3:37:06] Voice 2: That's my question.

[3:37:07] Voice 2: and just one other comment about hydrogeologists you know we're an interesting group of humans

[3:37:13] Voice 2: and um very intelligent people and much

[3:37:23] Voice 2: and and you know much like like doctors who are highly intelligent people or lawyers or teachers

[3:37:30] Voice 2: you know you can ask them the same question and you might get six different answers from six

[3:37:35] Voice 2: six different professionals so uh and it depends on where those professionals did a lot of their

[3:37:42] Voice 2: work right so um there's some amazing research professionals and and both consultants and

[3:37:48] Voice 2: and the the view of uh around this work around the regulatory lens sometimes it it takes the

[3:37:55] Voice 2: that planning and and policy liberty to make it fit um and and so sometimes the true research

[3:38:04] Voice 2: scientist is at odds with how this work is laid out in policy so that's just one comment i wanted

[3:38:12] Voice 2: to make yeah yeah

[3:38:15] Voice 6: but it also helps local hydrogeologists are always

[3:38:19] Voice 2: always or you know

[3:38:21] Voice 2: who i like the local hydrogeologist the the farmer that's been using their well for 30 years like

[3:38:27] Voice 2: that all of those stories are qualitative analysis it's so important and and the freshwater footprint

[3:38:34] Voice 2: one of our biggest um successes in this work was uh our undertaking of an understanding of how

[3:38:42] Voice 2: social science really benefits this work and there's so much more work to do there and it's

[3:38:48] Voice 2: embedded in communications and coordination and and the better we do at communications and

[3:38:54] Voice 2: coordination the the more rich that social science data is and and and then it it then embeds the

[3:39:02] Voice 2: story and the knowledge and the culture of the island into the work so yeah thanks yeah that's

[3:39:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so true yeah so yeah i think we should give a resolution to ask for a briefing notes that would

[3:39:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be attached or to explain them to maps.

[3:39:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That was my one ask.

[3:39:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I would suggest that a recommendation,

[3:39:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like a resolution to allocate staff

[3:39:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to provide that bridge base, I think

[3:39:32] Voice 10: would be .

[3:39:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And my second request or resolution

[3:39:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was to ask for, I don't know what that was,

[3:39:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): basically information from the drinking water

[3:39:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and watershed oh

[3:39:47] Voice 2: yeah sure right i'll yeah that's the other one thank you for reminding me

[3:39:51] Voice 2: yeah it'll probably be like a two-page two-page briefing on the rdn's drinking water and watershed

[3:39:57] Voice 2: protection program um and then i'll also describe like what the technical advisory

[3:40:02] Voice 2: committee is um the island trust has been a member of that before i was here sonia was

[3:40:08] Voice 2: on that committee before i was hired but

[3:40:11] Voice 6: your specific question was more on the risk associated

[3:40:14] Voice 6: with the off-island sources well

[3:40:16] Voice 2: that's yes and that's part of it because i in that briefing i'll

[3:40:20] Voice 2: okay i'll describe like the work that they're undertaking to do that but yes thank you that

[3:40:25] Voice 2: was the the nature of the topic not just a general inquiry so that should also be captured in there

[3:40:30] Voice 2: like based with you know based on or with respect to off-island water sustainability as it relates

[3:40:38] Voice 2: to gabriel island i mean that's what we're talking about right yeah okay great yeah

[3:40:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so so i had a

[3:40:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): motion prepared for that one. Do you want to do that one? Sure. Okay. I move that the

[3:40:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Gabriel Island Local Trust Committee request staff provide a briefing with updates and

[3:40:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): feel free to correct the language here on the drinking water and watershed protection program

[3:41:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in particular with regard to the long-term security and access for commercial use of water

[3:41:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for gabriella island water region six nanaimo river that's

[3:41:14] Voice 11: very specific no is that good i i

[3:41:18] Voice 2: like that you you don't have to use the word commercial right because if because it there's

[3:41:24] Voice 2: a lot of different ways of water coming to gabriola um and and and so yeah but no it's

[3:41:30] Voice 2: great resolution yep

[3:41:31] Voice 11: just a minute let me make sure lisa's got it i send it to you yeah yes

[3:41:42] Voice 9: suggestion maybe to add regional district at the end? Okay

[3:41:46] Voice 11: let's just take a moment make those

[3:41:50] Voice 11: couple of changes remove commercial and add drinking water and watershed protection program

[3:42:01] Voice 10: drinking water and watershed protection program.

[3:42:13] Voice 11: Do you want to read that back? Sure.

[3:42:15] Voice 11: We've been shared smoothed that given a lot of the adjustability request staff provided

[3:42:21] Voice 11: a briefing with updates on the regional district of the normal drinking water watershed protection

[3:42:26] Voice 11: program

[3:42:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in particular

[3:42:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with regard to the long-term security

[3:42:29] Voice 10: and access to the use of water for

[3:42:32] Voice 10: gabriel island for water region six new nile river

[3:42:38] Voice 6: everyone's okay with that not hearing any uh

[3:42:45] Voice 6: you're still finding the motion as red yeah is there a second

[3:42:48] Voice 6: second by trustee aids any discussion all the vote all those in favor that carries

[3:42:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay, so the second one would be something like requesting staff to provide briefing notes to accompany the map of Schedule D, or the freshwater hazards parcel map, and the critical aquifer recharge area.

[3:43:24] Voice 11: Could you repeat what you said?

[3:43:26] Voice 11: Uh,

[3:43:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Gabriel, uh, local trust committee request staff provide briefing notes to accompany the two, well, the critical aquifer recharge area map and freshwater hazard parcel map.

[3:43:44] Or

[3:43:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): briefings. Maybe just briefings.

[3:44:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Council Committee request staff to provide briefing notes to accompany the freshwater hazard parcel map and the critical aquifer recharge area map.

[3:44:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Do you want to say what they're part of or does it matter?

[3:44:16] Voice 11: Does that all make sense to staff?

[3:44:22] Voice 11: Objections? So is there

[3:44:24] Voice 6: a second? Seconded by Trustee

[3:44:26] Voice 11: Yates. Any discussion?

[3:44:28] Voice 6: Call the vote. All those in favor? That carries.

[3:44:30] Voice 11: Thank

[3:44:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you. Can we make the final motion now?

[3:44:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): One correction, sorry. Page 8 of your frequently asked questions, 90 of the minutes.

[3:44:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Question 16. How long did the project take?

[3:44:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think its results went to the Gabriela Local Trust Committee, not Trust Council.

[3:44:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): did

[3:44:58] Voice 8: the trust council see it no um just

[3:45:09] Voice 2: based on that um i mean this might be a sidebar question

[3:45:12] Voice 2: but um as you recall the the project was funded uh like through trust council um for the purposes

[3:45:21] Voice 2: of it being a methodology that extends to the across the island trust area and and so happened

[3:45:28] Voice 2: and that gabriela is in this project and and and was a good candidate for the case study

[3:45:32] Voice 2: so since trust council hasn't seen it but that was the direction that the ltc gave trust council

[3:45:42] Voice 2: or the support was that it it um was meant for that purpose of designing a methodology for the

[3:45:49] Voice 2: rest of the island trust area is there any direction from the ltc to take this to trust

[3:45:56] Voice 2: council um in any way i

[3:46:00] Voice 6: uh my recommendation would be as i think this is now more of an onboarding

[3:46:05] Voice 6: um as you and the planning staff were talking about what they're going to educate new trustees

[3:46:12] Voice 6: on um i would hope that there would be a portfolio of fresh water education items that you would

[3:46:19] Voice 6: include whether it's its own special light or included in one of the meetings but this should

[3:46:24] Voice 6: be packaged amongst that

[3:46:25] Voice 11: material how you deliver it i see

[3:46:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): trustees have opinions just a quick

[3:46:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): question would it also has this already been seen by the regional planning committee and should be

[3:46:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): no yeah because we have that's part of our project it should go to regional planning committee and

[3:46:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): potentially because it's part of the report you have to just counsel yeah um but you might want

[3:46:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to i

[3:46:50] Voice 11: don't know if there is any yeah uh

[3:46:52] Voice 2: yeah uh well sorry um yeah the that agenda package goes

[3:46:57] Voice 2: out tomorrow so um if uh sorry this is through the chair if if the ltc would like to um include

[3:47:06] Voice 2: that i could just provide a real small briefing and send it to stephan for his review um to put

[3:47:13] Voice 2: on the rpc agenda package which is due tomorrow yeah

[3:47:17] Voice 6: i think i think we can leave that to you

[3:47:20] Voice 6: Do we need to give you direction, or do you think staff will need to see the realities of that, depending on the size of the package?

[3:47:29] Voice 2: Yeah, it seems like if the LTC thinks that's a good idea, I think then that's fine.

[3:47:34] Voice 2: I don't think we need a resolution.

[3:47:36] Voice 2: I

[3:47:36] Voice 6: think for general consent, I'm seeing thumbs up that, of course, they would like to share the information.

[3:47:42] Voice 6: and that's definitely part of the new onboarding

[3:47:47] Voice 6: that should be brought to the trustees' attention

[3:47:50] Voice 6: so they're aware this exists

[3:47:51] Voice 6: and maybe coming to an island near you.

[3:47:54] Voice 6: That's great.

[3:47:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay. Yeah, great.

[3:47:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Now we can approve this one.

[3:47:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All right.

[3:47:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I move that Gabriel on a local committee

[3:48:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): receive the fresh water footprint briefing

[3:48:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and frequently asked questions document

[3:48:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provided by the senior fresh water specialist.

[3:48:09] Voice 11: Does it have to have an as amended in there?

[3:48:15] Voice 11: is there a second second by trustee elliott

[3:48:18] Voice 6: any discussion all the vote all those in favor that

[3:48:21] Voice 6: carries yay one

[3:48:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): more to go all right now the big

[3:48:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one thank you william yeah

[3:48:27] Voice 2: thank thank you so much

[3:48:28] Voice 2: chair and and thank you to the ltc for your support on this project that's

[3:48:32] Voice 11: been great thank

[3:48:33] Voice 11: you what's up you know you want to you want to deal with the special meeting we i thought we

[3:48:37] Voice 11: didn't that we didn't. No, we didn't the social media. Yes,

[3:48:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we did.

[3:48:55] Voice 11: All right, so now we're

[3:48:56] Voice 6: on to the options. Did you want to

[3:49:00] Voice 6: present that? First, how you'd

[3:49:04] Voice 11: like the structure of this

[3:49:05] Voice 11: conversation? What we would do is just go through

[3:49:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The table, basically, is on page

[3:49:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 67 for anyone listening. Yeah, so go through the OCP draft policy table. So basically what's happened here is that staff have taken all the have gone through all of the correspondence that have been received and have had

[3:49:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): had one-on-one conversations with both local trustees,

[3:49:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Trustee Yates and Trustee Elliot,

[3:49:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and gathered, who have also been gathering feedback

[3:49:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): from the community.

[3:49:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that feedback has been considered

[3:49:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in terms of how it could be reflected

[3:49:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in potential changes to the existing policies.

[3:49:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that's what you see here.

[3:49:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and so there is a little bit of a note there that um you know we do have a agenda deadline which is

[3:50:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh you know quite some a bit more than a week ahead of time so so not everything may might be

[3:50:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in here but the the to the extent possible um we have included as much um that we were able to

[3:50:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which is also you know that that the august meeting provides that opportunity to catch

[3:50:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): catch things that have been coming in sort of last minute as

[3:50:30] Voice 8: it

[3:50:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): were with that into that the June 30 deadline as well as as

[3:50:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the thing as the things that will come in the comments that

[3:50:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): will that will come in before July 6. So I think I think just

[3:50:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): going through this and what I would ask is, you know, we can

[3:50:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): go through I think there's some decisions to be made. What staff

[3:50:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would like is to go away and be able to make the changes that you agree to at this point in time,

[3:51:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I would suggest that if you get hung up on some and you need to think about it a little bit more,

[3:51:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we can move it to August. So we have that as an opportunity so we don't have to spend

[3:51:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): too much time if you're not feeling like you want to make it. But as many as you can decide

[3:51:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is useful because then you can get make those changes.

[3:51:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'll also note that, well that's my first thing that I'll note. So let's start with the first

[3:51:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in those two. So the first sort of section there was the editorial

[3:51:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): changes. One of the things I think was some conversation about with the numbering.

[3:51:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We did figure out a methodology to bring that down to four numbers, and it feels pretty

[3:51:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): solid.

[3:51:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So when the draft ed will go to the first reading, we'll have that new numbering.

[3:51:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We're going to maintain what we've got on the website right now, because that's what

[3:52:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people have been looking at, and so the reference numbers will remain as they are for now.

[3:52:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um but um but yeah by like but taking numbers out of some headings etc it makes sense when you say

[3:52:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): remain as they are now you're including what's in this document right yeah like

[3:52:20] Voice 1: i

[3:52:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have a question with regard to that just really quickly

[3:52:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): planner chapter because we did talk about this um there's some sections especially i think under

[3:52:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): EPA guidelines where there's a there's a main heading then there's two sort of subheadings

[3:52:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and there'll be something like guidelines and then nothing and then policies and then a bunch

[3:52:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of numbers whereas really the policies are the guidelines and so they could simply be numbered

[3:52:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): under the guidelines that kind of thing like I noticed yeah there's headings and then two more

[3:52:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): headings and then well wait that heading doesn't really have anything under it except what's under

[3:53:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the next site heading yeah so that will all be cleaned out yeah yeah yeah so yeah epas will have

[3:53:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): their own like something and uh the suggestion and we'll get to that in a minute is to remove

[3:53:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the dpa and the cup guidelines from and put them into the language yeah i'm just going to tick that

[3:53:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): actually we don't need a thumbs up

[3:53:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): as desperately as we want them that is the right place for us

[3:53:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay, so moving down, we have, and I would just say, like, we've had some great, great feedback from the community. There's obviously some very engaged city members that have spent a lot of time, and I will say staff are reading every word.

[3:53:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it. And, and, and, and some of them, I mean, there's been some

[3:53:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): really, really great editorial suggestions, very, very, very

[3:53:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): detailed things. And I really, you know, staff would really

[3:54:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): appreciate that we tried to get this document out as fast as we

[3:54:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could. We recognize that there, there were, you know, some sort

[3:54:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of editorial things that were needed some attention. So thanks

[3:54:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to those, those three members that have flagged them, who are creating a track

[3:54:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): changes document that has all those. And so these things include the use of the

[3:54:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): word, how we use it, suggested the word in one place, a couple of places, made

[3:54:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sense, the use of the word moderate, middle, and medium, we're using the word

[3:54:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): moderate, because that's the most important thing, there were, there was an

[3:54:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): occasion where we use middle and then we use medium that's just those are just things that

[3:54:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): happen when you're moving fast through something regarding obtainable is there any appropriate

[3:54:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): place for it because i don't understand anything that's attainable whether it's affordable it's

[3:54:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something we're still using the word attainable so the suggestion was to remove it from two places

[3:55:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where it didn't match the the meaning that we're existing we're currently using we're using the

[3:55:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): word attainable because that is a new planning essentially it's a new one that's emerged because

[3:55:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's a housing situation that we missed so there's affordable which is basically like the

[3:55:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): lower income housing usually with uh um uh supported with uh housing agreements and then

[3:55:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): attainable houses that the word attainable in the housing realm is being used to refer to housing

[3:55:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that that is that can be that is attainable to a um like a middle income that's okay kind of

[3:55:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): scenario so i did a bit of research again uh just to double check because that was my that's why i

[3:55:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): had used the word to begin with so the research kind of confirms that so and also uh our community

[3:55:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): member didn't have a problem with the word attainable in the way that it's being used to

[3:55:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): refer to that particular type of housing it was how we had used it in a couple of other places

[3:55:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that didn't correspond to that yeah right

[3:56:03] Voice 9: if i can just add to because i get a concern about it

[3:56:06] Voice 9: being interpreted really really broad is that there is a definition of attainable housing as

[3:56:11] Voice 9: well in the draft currently so

[3:56:13] Voice 10: excellent okay

[3:56:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah um so yeah so there's some consistency things here

[3:56:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um so with respect to referring to land sometimes we refer to land use the land use

[3:56:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bylaws sometimes we refer to the regulations we're just going to refer to land use regulations in all

[3:56:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cases. There was, somebody had identified that the parts of protected maps were not updated,

[3:56:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so that's about that. Yeah. There's some, yeah there were some references to things,

[3:56:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like this is an example here, 1.2.8, where there was some additional information that needed to be

[3:57:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): added, so we're doing that. And when I say other editorial changes, these are things like what was

[3:57:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): pointed out is we we don't we're not we're not saying preserve as much as we're saying protect

[3:57:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so we should be saying preserve and protect so in the instance it's we're using the language of the

[3:57:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the elements um and there's there's sort of some other comments related that are easy

[3:57:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): easy easy to integrate and make the document uh read better so we're we're going through and

[3:57:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): making those changes and when we get trapped changes versions so like you'll be able to see

[3:57:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that um there was there was some comments on um the use of the words must should it manage

[3:57:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and can't and this is something i i put this in here for some clarity um that was really helpful

[3:57:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so

[3:57:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we never use the word shell that's doesn't that is not a word that's used it

[3:57:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's legally ambiguous so i think it's also considered archaic at this point yeah correct

[3:57:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): correct yeah so we've been instructed you know again you know stephen and i sort of of course

[3:58:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy writing that said never, don't wish out any more. Must is really only used when

[3:58:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it is something that is a requirement usually through a bridge requirement or so forth.

[3:58:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So as we mentioned it before, the policies can't fit at the discretion of the LTC at the time,

[3:58:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so that's why the strongest word that you can be really should it it it might not be a must or

[3:58:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): else you're that was very helpful when you said that about bettering the discretion of future

[3:58:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): LTCs because I thought well of course it should be a must or you know because it feels like it

[3:58:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should be right and um so so we're doing our best to use the right words we did do a bit of a we did

[3:58:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we will be going through it again, and what should be a should is a may, we'll certainly make that change.

[3:59:07] Voice 9: Well, just to say, because it's easy enough to do, there might be a couple instances where there is a must, but they should be deliberate, I guess.

[3:59:17] Voice 9: And there's those very limited

[3:59:18] Voice 9: instances, talking about where you can't

[3:59:21] Voice 10: do that anymore.

[3:59:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that makes sense.

[3:59:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. Yeah. So on the vision statement, that was a call out to the community. And I guess

[3:59:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh, wow, then we get a lot of things came by. And so FCH took the time to go through them all

[3:59:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and then construct this vision statement here. So I guess, I guess what we need is just

[3:59:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): endorsement that you want to be for this plan being as in the, and that would really be Toby

[3:59:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I'm generally, I like it.

[4:00:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): lot better thank you so much susan to everybody who gave their input that was really helpful and

[4:00:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i love seeing the different views of gabriela my one question about it is indigenous and local

[4:00:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cultural heritage um i've heard you know local culture raised in a few different ways and i just

[4:00:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): don't know it's kind of ambiguous i know we're not talking about settler heritage but it's sort

[4:00:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of like how the island like our island culture and so is local appropriate or i couldn't think

[4:00:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of any other word that islander um yeah i don't i don't want so i don't think settlers are appropriate

[4:00:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um island culture island culture yeah like well i mean you guys can change that word

[4:00:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i'll think about it i want to change too much it's just the local yeah yeah you've got time

[4:01:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so um maybe maybe just think about it and then uh uh yeah maybe we'll put our heads to it too

[4:01:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i'm gonna work in august uh local covers it though like local leaves it open

[4:01:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): open without i don't know i almost think anyway i already did this what am i saying

[4:01:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah no wow there was only going to be eight there were 12 that i was trying to yeah you know

[4:01:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): put into one without making it four pages long and um locals seem to suit everybody's

[4:01:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): preference the one that people did not like is the word settlement no and it does have an odd

[4:01:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): connotation so i would never use that in a vision state my other feedback would be use the word

[4:01:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): collaboratively twice collaboratively in the collaboration um could the first one be cooperatively

[4:02:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to balance human needs i mean cooperation is in the mandate and that or cooperation among maybe

[4:02:09] Voice 3: maybe

[4:02:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cooperation among residents yeah i

[4:02:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thought about that too i thought oh there's twice in this

[4:02:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one document let's change that second one because cooperation you know we work in cooperation with

[4:02:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): these other agencies and yeah so i think that one would be a good swap but yeah i

[4:02:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like it i think

[4:02:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's cleaner it doesn't say anything about marine environment though no because but our other places

[4:02:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean we're an island it's kind of central but well let's just leave it for now it's

[4:02:54] Voice 8: great

[4:02:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): islands ecological limits and and I think all of us just assume that includes the shores

[4:03:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because we're islands okay well you have time to think about it more and for the time being

[4:03:08] Voice 11: myself

[4:03:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): change that word and then yeah okay let's get into the meat of it okay moving on so goals

[4:03:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and objectives uh there's an identified need uh for an objective that addresses

[4:03:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so i've got an option there um if you're if you agree with that um

[4:03:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So question. When I was, you know, and I referred you to the draft policy statement handbook which had some policies about supporting indigenous interests with regard to access rights and all of that.

[4:03:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Did you explore any of those as potential?

[4:03:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because there's a lot of policies that I hadn't considered, and could we raise that with any

[4:04:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): conversations with Linnea about to sort of...

[4:04:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I mean, I think the general nature of these policies is in step with what I'm saying

[4:04:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there.

[4:04:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I can do another read-through and just see if we've missed anything.

[4:04:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anything so the option that you've given us here i really like i mean i'm really really glad we

[4:04:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have this option that's been added um i think that one that you get i put a big blue tick

[4:04:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): beside it like that looks really good to me i think i mean i would go i would go with that

[4:04:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for this draft and see what else we get if

[4:04:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anything comes up in your conversation

[4:04:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sure yeah yeah that would be great to i did uh yeah all right and then before we move on from

[4:04:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the goals please so 2.2.2 did which is protection of the natural environment biodiversity

[4:05:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): diversity, we did have some feedback about, so my question was, why is objective 2.2.2.2

[4:05:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): protect, restore, and enhance ecosystem integrity, and then that same language could be reflected

[4:05:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in protect, restore, and enhance marine ecosystems, or not?

[4:05:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): What page are you on?

[4:05:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm using the staff report, and it's a different issue.

[4:05:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, I just

[4:05:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): want to be in

[4:05:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): objectives, right? Yes, I mean objectives. Yeah, we could do that. We could. I think that's a good happen in here, but I think we can use the same language for 2.2 point 2.2 point 2.2 point 2.3 so we can make them less.

[4:05:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, because it's the policy is just sort of protect from degradation incompatible development it doesn't like there's nothing about restoring or enhancing or supporting the natural habitat come back.

[4:06:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then moving down to 5, 2.5, just wondering if the word critical needs to be in there or aquifer is a non-protect critical aquifer or was there a reason it's just not?

[4:06:25] Voice 8: I

[4:06:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think I think just say awkward because I think you want to protect the entire can right so as a as an objective you're protecting.

[4:06:35] Voice 10: All water.

[4:06:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Island aquifer of water.

[4:06:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then we can be specific, but critical when you.

[4:06:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The dpa all right.

[4:06:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Moving on to definitions, so are you changing the project, are you present in the next one, where it's going to be preserved.

[4:06:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Wherever there's protect, where it says protect, it's going to say preserve and protect, and that happens like throughout the document.

[4:07:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay. And then, sorry, one more in objectives before we move on, and that's in 2.2244 under community resilience.

[4:07:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That could be protect, restore, and enhance, or protect, like...

[4:07:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Related to forests?

[4:07:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah related to forests and wetlands and other like this is this is actually a huge area that

[4:07:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think we need discussion on is how to support creation of wetlands and water sinks and yes

[4:07:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just better than manage and

[4:07:40] Voice 1: revitalize

[4:07:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or um like like how galliano conservancy does a lot

[4:07:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of restoration yeah restore yeah yeah check restore and revitalize yeah forests wetlands

[4:07:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and other natural features. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

[4:07:58] Voice 8: Okay. Anything else there?

[4:08:01] Voice 8: I was looking at feedback.

[4:08:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'll come back to it.

[4:08:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Can we move on

[4:08:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to definitions?

[4:08:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I had just a question,

[4:08:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Senator Chandork, about definitions and community use.

[4:08:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): definition to be added or or reference to be changed to community service yes so this was

[4:08:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think this is i think um we refer to community service with respect to um in the subdivision

[4:08:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that uh uh the requirement or have it for um for there being a uh a land that is

[4:08:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): donate need for community service i think that we we use use and we use service both of them

[4:08:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah i think we're going to use a new survey and then we'll we'll we'll make sure that the

[4:09:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): definition reflects that i think we've got community use right

[4:09:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): now yeah okay and i just

[4:09:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): wondered why yeah that's just again that's more of an editorial yeah okay um so diversity and

[4:09:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): community well being. I don't see anything unless I'm missing

[4:09:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it about strengthening local food systems for community

[4:09:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): resilience. I'm missing food.

[4:09:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, we've got stewardship. Stewardship, I think

[4:09:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): preserve our cultural land and local food systems. 2.2 point

[4:09:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 3.2 but maybe we also need to we'll be able to check into you yeah okay that's good thanks

[4:09:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay so moving on to definitions or yes okay so um yeah there was a question related to the

[4:10:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): definition of horticulture and i'm going to go through i think that's because we have identified

[4:10:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be permitted in all residential areas essentially, and agriculture to be permitted in larger.

[4:10:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I think that's in the land use by-law allows in the smaller residential lots, horticulture

[4:10:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and what is it?

[4:10:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use of animals for personal

[4:10:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use. So what we've got in the OCP doesn't personally lead to

[4:10:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bad use, so we can still maintain that, but it's just being more clear that basically

[4:10:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the smaller lots are more appropriate

[4:10:56] Voice 10: for plants, vegetables and such, as opposed to

[4:11:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't think we can fix it is because I know the province gives you your farm tax status

[4:11:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whether you grow hay or whether you grow carrots and it's too bad that we can't discern for

[4:11:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the value of the community that someone isn't just growing hay to get farm tax status and

[4:11:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and not actually using that land to produce food.

[4:11:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes.

[4:11:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's really important to get the land for food.

[4:11:31] Voice 11: The way it is.

[4:11:33] Voice 11: Yes, but the Islands Trust has this ability

[4:11:35] Voice 11: to tell the province what we need.

[4:11:38] Voice 3: Yeah.

[4:11:40] Voice 11: Thank

[4:11:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you, Chair Patrick.

[4:11:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, advocacy.

[4:11:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, when it comes to advocacy for agricultural policies.

[4:11:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It doesn't fit on our little islands, yeah.

[4:11:49] Voice 11: Yeah.

[4:11:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Should be.

[4:11:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, it might,

[4:11:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but there shouldn't be extra breaks for them.

[4:11:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, you can go ahead, you know, but you're not going to get the tax break.

[4:11:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So moving along, there was some suggestions around the definition of dwelling units.

[4:12:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm still thinking about that in terms of how we're using secondary dwelling.

[4:12:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It needs to be consistent across the trust area.

[4:12:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so we are considering that, like, I am going to spend some time thinking about what's been suggested around definitions of dwelling units.

[4:12:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so yeah just to say that we've still got some to come back to that it actually requires just

[4:12:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a larger discussion with the region yeah on that one um although maine keeps amending its land use

[4:12:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): by a lot including cottages so well this is maine just throw the consistency of the window yeah that

[4:12:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I know why. It's fine. Just saying. There's only so far we can go with it.

[4:12:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes. Definition. There was a question around the definition of freshwater management plan.

[4:12:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think that'll become clear in the DAI bylaw. There's policies around rezoning.

[4:13:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's interesting. That's right. Because I noticed that right away.

[4:13:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with. But that will be quite specific. So that's great.

[4:13:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, the idea I got to the DAI by 30 on the things that are

[4:13:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): required when wanting to make changes to

[4:13:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): correct Steven, who's doing the process.

[4:13:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So indigenous context, that's we're working with some old

[4:13:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): staff uh to update that um updates to groundwater resources um oh yeah this is just again an

[4:13:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): editorial suggestion but you know what i really like this um rainwater harvesting over water

[4:13:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): delivery is encouraged yes always yeah it's really important yeah i

[4:13:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): recognize that language

[4:14:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah yeah absolutely and and you know we need to listen to those citizens because they're really

[4:14:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): invested in this community yeah yeah totally yeah so there was like i said there were some really

[4:14:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): great suggestions that were made uh uh again you know below that another suggestion that was made

[4:14:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like you know just you know adding a word changing the the uh to make it sound more

[4:14:23] Voice 3: But

[4:14:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it lands in the community and speaks to the rest of us.

[4:14:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So big blue ticks beside those.

[4:14:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then yeah, little things we're thinking all actual, you know, simple things we could

[4:14:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have had.

[4:14:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But you did note there that it's not meant to be inclusive of all, otherwise you could

[4:14:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have all the spaces.

[4:14:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You can have a list this long.

[4:14:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I mean, yeah, you can decide what you want to have.

[4:14:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I was like, okay, sure, we can talk a little bit.

[4:14:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh, yeah, questions regarding numbering.

[4:14:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, we're dealing with the numbering.

[4:15:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Before you skip ahead, are you talking housing and services needs?

[4:15:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so there's questions around the, sorry, yeah,

[4:15:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's the questions around the actual numbers.

[4:15:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Population numbers, yeah.

[4:15:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. And there are, we did, the reason we did another calculation around population numbers is because the, the housing needs assessments that we received didn't really, it wasn't, we felt like we needed to provide, do our own analysis on population numbers.

[4:15:39] Voice 8: Can we just say it was useless?

[4:15:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes.

[4:15:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There is a provincial requirement, I know, to basically quote what that needs assessment says.

[4:15:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's why it's different numbers. And so that's why we did our own calculations.

[4:15:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think you need to explain that because it does make it totally incoherent and because people get hung up on numbers and go,

[4:16:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So why does the Provincial Needs Assessment for Housing say this?

[4:16:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then you come out with a different one for that.

[4:16:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I was trying to gently kind of say that.

[4:16:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No, we have people who look at the numbers and they will.

[4:16:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so I'm well familiar with the limits of the Housing Needs Assessment.

[4:16:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And it just, like for rural areas, it just did not translate.

[4:16:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No, it didn't.

[4:16:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's why we did our, yeah.

[4:16:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So you could say, make a note, it's required that we include this,

[4:16:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but it is not at all it's not reflecting the of the reality yeah well what does match the reality

[4:16:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is the gabriella um health and well-being report that came up to you two and a half years ago yeah

[4:16:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that matches the reality yeah and

[4:16:51] Voice 6: that's a little bit almost

[4:16:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like that and see well

[4:16:54] Voice 6: you're not you're

[4:16:55] Voice 6: obviously we're not we're required to have a housing needs assessment but we are exempt

[4:17:00] Voice 6: from having to update our ocp

[4:17:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for it we are so you know so we are required to acknowledge the

[4:17:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So acknowledge it and then say, and

[4:17:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it was useless. Okay. Yeah.

[4:17:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We're not required to do what it says tells us to do. Right.

[4:17:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I have a little bit of feedback before we move on.

[4:17:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. Community context. Okay.

[4:17:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm wondering if there should be a section on growth management.

[4:17:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because it it speaks to how to translate the numbers into what are we managing

[4:17:42] Voice 8: and

[4:17:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): when i looked at the ministry of municipal affairs feedback on the policy statement

[4:17:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um and this is where i would like to ask staff if we can ask you to look at that referral response

[4:17:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): response. It's got some really interesting language. So this is from the local government

[4:18:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): division. It was on this draft policy 3.42 on growth management. And the quote is, and I think

[4:18:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this is really good, like this is good context for what the province is looking for. Growth

[4:18:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): management speaks to managing growth. The Gulf Islands face unique housing challenges, including

[4:18:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a lack of workforce and affordable housing. At the same time, the trust must consider a range of

[4:18:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): factors such as drinking water availability and waste disposal its ecological mandate requires

[4:18:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thoughtful consideration of diverse perspectives to manage expectations for growth and development

[4:18:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and local economies while protecting ecosystems and pressures they cannot sustain this balance

[4:18:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should be considered carefully as part of the growth management process and that kind of sets

[4:18:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the stage for like growth management is not a bad word here's all the things you need to consider

[4:18:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's not like developing or managing for growth anywhere else there are limits there are real

[4:18:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ecological limits and you've got these factors drinking water and waste disposal so that is like

[4:19:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): kind of it's not like it's here in natural environment by diversity but

[4:19:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sort of bringing it together it's kind

[4:19:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of on both sides yeah and that's and that's what the ministry

[4:19:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): industry is specifically looking for for plants coming from the other ones. So maybe it's

[4:19:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): worth looking at.

[4:19:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[4:19:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think

[4:19:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that makes sense. Okay. And

[4:19:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the other growth limits that we have that people forget

[4:19:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about are the roads, the transportation roads, the ferries. The ferries are a growth limiting

[4:19:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): factor. And the electrical grid. People don't think about that. But those are some of the

[4:19:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): things that every human that you add to an area has an impact on the roads on the ferries on

[4:19:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): waste disposal on water use on the electrical grid

[4:20:00] Voice 8: yeah but

[4:20:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there's more there that could relate so

[4:20:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't want to add more to your plate but how like when the ministry comes back with there's a

[4:20:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): specific notation on suitable locations for additional housing Steve Earl also had a question

[4:20:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about what a suitable location was mean

[4:20:20] Voice 8: so

[4:20:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the minister or the staff there actually came back

[4:20:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with it may be helpful to define what attainable housing means context including specific details

[4:20:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of where these locations may be i think

[4:20:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we've done that to be honest um i think that's what

[4:20:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this ocd is identifying the suitable areas and the criteria that's required to make decisions

[4:20:47] Voice 8: Okay. Okay, moving along. That's cool.

[4:20:58] Voice 11: Oh

[4:21:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah, jumping back to objectives, there are just a couple of more.

[4:21:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we'll move to the policy amendment alternatives or options.

[4:21:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So subdivision policy, we are, we're tweaking that, we've got a legal review, the nature of it is not changing.

[4:21:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): changing. So essentially, the maximum minimum lot sizes increased to effectively require

[4:21:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any anybody wanting to subdivide for private interests to go to go through a rezoning,

[4:21:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which gives the LTC of the day the opportunity to evaluate it based on a very, very long

[4:21:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): list of criteria like any development right that that's the i think one of the key things

[4:21:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um really important for everybody to keep in mind is that 2.5 is is a list of many many things that

[4:22:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): need to be considered if anybody wants to change anything it is very comprehensive it's very

[4:22:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): comprehensive so um that would apply to um subdivision as well as to um uh rezonings

[4:22:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There was some, I guess, some questions around community amenity policies. It's an interesting

[4:22:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one. In the ISA context, it's very different than in an urban context, where you have municipalities

[4:22:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): municipalities using many policies to get money from developers, essentially, or part

[4:22:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of land or what have you, in return for providing them with more density, or, you know, affordable

[4:23:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): housing, we don't, that's not, we're not working with large developers here, we're working

[4:23:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with nonprofits, actually, because really, the only, like large scale rezonings that

[4:23:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are going to be permitted are ones that are are are for affordable housing so essentially those

[4:23:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be um done by non-profits etc um there is an opportunity maybe the other place where there's

[4:23:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): an amenity kind of consideration is in the subdivision policy and um and in that case

[4:23:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know i've identified an opportunity you might want to be a bit more clear on what those

[4:23:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): amenities could be so the way that the sub-division policy is set up right now is that

[4:23:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if you do want to rezone to subdivide that um that there don't there would be a requirement

[4:23:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for some kind of a community service benefit isn't it we talked about the community so

[4:24:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we're not talking

[4:24:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sidewalks and like it's here so you know the option that you've provided here

[4:24:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is really good it's really comprehensive and i think there's no harm in including that

[4:24:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because it really makes it clear that this is not a municipality or a city it's an area where

[4:24:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the only way we're going to increase density in one area is if we can get this in exchange

[4:24:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i think i i don't know i don't think there's anything we've missed here it might be but um

[4:24:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's really good, and I think there's nothing wrong with spelling that out.

[4:24:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I have a question about the fourth bullet.

[4:24:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Why is it transfer of land rather than provision?

[4:24:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It could be provision.

[4:24:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because it

[4:24:52] Voice 8: may or may not be a transfer.

[4:24:53] Voice 8: It might just be.

[4:24:54] Voice 8: I

[4:24:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thought it did.

[4:24:56] Voice 8: Yeah,

[4:24:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's a better word.

[4:24:57] Voice 6: Yeah.

[4:24:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[4:24:58] Voice 6: And you got serve and protect used separately all through this section.

[4:25:05] Voice 6: Yeah, that's why we're going to make sure that it's consistent.

[4:25:08] Voice 6: Okay. So

[4:25:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): back to the question of, yes, this would be for subdivision policy, but we're not adding it to a list of potential contributions for rezoning applications because that already adds to the burden of a rezoning when it's providing affordable housing.

[4:25:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah you still have the opportunity to have that discussion and and in terms of so the policies

[4:25:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): related to amending the the OCP and land use bylaw 2.5 that already steps through like it like it

[4:25:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): identifies those considerations as well yeah so you're not losing anything right yeah yeah like

[4:25:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you're not necessarily gaining anything if you put a little like we essentially have those things

[4:25:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah that opportunity exists yeah it's nice to have a list and yeah it can be drawn from it

[4:26:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's appropriate yeah and under freshwater sustainability i really like that option

[4:26:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i both trusty elliot and i have had pretty extensive conversations with people who don't

[4:26:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): want any cisterns at all but they've got lots of groundwater

[4:26:19] Voice 3: or

[4:26:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people who do want cisterns but

[4:26:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they don't want to have to catch rain fine do whatever you need to do as long as you've got

[4:26:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the cistern um and then people who say no if you you must have cisterns in it and you must allow

[4:26:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for a rainwater catchment for any added density or any secondary dwellings and that kind of thing

[4:26:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and um as far as i'm concerned the more we encourage people to be water self-sufficient

[4:26:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the better off we will be so i i think this is going to be an area of significant pushback

[4:26:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the community i don't think residential should be treated the same as commercial and

[4:26:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): institutional yeah and if if we need to create two separate policies that are a requirement

[4:27:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for commercial and institutional development to incorporate systems great um i think there should

[4:27:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be a policy to encourage or it's like it should be required in the freshwater hazard area for

[4:27:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all new dwellings i think or all new accessory dwellings but all new residential construction

[4:27:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to require systems if they're in a resident if they're in a groundwater rich area this is just

[4:27:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): going to be people are going to get activated it's not and it's just not required there's some places

[4:27:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that just will never need it and you're adding up five or six thousand or ten thousand dollar cost

[4:27:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the residential construction right i kind of disagree with that we don't know that they will

[4:27:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): never need it we don't know that in 20 years 30 years down the line they may very well fire

[4:27:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): protection alone exactly so they're in an area they're usually in a forested area because larger

[4:28:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): parcels are in forested areas and if they have even just even just the cistern not necessarily

[4:28:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hooked up to rainwater whatever they have the ability at some point to provide water supply

[4:28:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if something goes wrong with their well or if they need emergency water supply and I I really

[4:28:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think we should be more proactive even to people who think they may never need a cistern

[4:28:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I get your point everybody wants to see a catchment system for the island all that I've

[4:28:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): been hearing because the topic is water water water water I've heard different terms like a

[4:28:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a water battery, catchment system,

[4:28:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sweat-engineered drainage swales,

[4:28:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hydrogeological restoration zones.

[4:28:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): There's, people want to see that water,

[4:28:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where water's abundant, that there's a way to capture it.

[4:29:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't agree that cisterns are the way to do it.

[4:29:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That is plastic and it's a poor response.

[4:29:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean, we should do an ecological response

[4:29:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to capturing water.

[4:29:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so my question is, and maybe from a planning perspective, can we identify areas where it

[4:29:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): could increase water, like through ponds and swales or somebody called it a water battery

[4:29:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that water could be stored and then drawn from?

[4:29:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): What we could explore, I think, is some language that would say system or like alternative approach to holding water or using water even. I mean, this is, you know, if they're integrating a gray water reuse system, for example.

[4:30:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Maybe that's what staff could do is sort of explore some language that would provide some flexibility around that.

[4:30:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So it's a cistern or an alternative, and however they would define that alternative,

[4:30:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think we'd have to figure out how, yeah, like how we would regulate that piece.

[4:30:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But we can certainly do that.

[4:30:22] Voice 6: Because it

[4:30:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just, to me, requiring plastic cisterns for residential construction,

[4:30:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I've heard strongly from at least four or five people they will not like that but they

[4:30:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all live in a groundwater rich area so this isn't shared by everybody lots of people do

[4:30:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): say yes require assistance for all residential construction there's real mixed views I think

[4:30:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water catchment systems could be like a flexible way to describe a way to retain water like

[4:30:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Like, what is that term that says you're not necessarily relying on groundwater, but there's a...

[4:31:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, water is self-sufficient.

[4:31:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I've heard this, like, the food security forum, Brian Bradley was like, we should be incentivizing people digging ponds everywhere right now for food security.

[4:31:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The big issue is farming.

[4:31:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): How do we support agriculture, which uses a lot of water?

[4:31:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that's...

[4:31:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that it's not going to be plastic cisterns it's just not well so the cistern i had previously

[4:31:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh two houses ago was a under the deck it was cement and um it was part of the foundation

[4:31:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cement's not great either but there it was and it was 30 000 gallons i never know but we're just

[4:31:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): moving further and further into engineered well

[4:31:52] Voice 11: the chairs like staff

[4:31:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are willing to do

[4:31:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I can explore that would suggest that an alternative could be used, but that there is some kind

[4:32:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of water catchment system.

[4:32:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Can you separate the residential out from commercial and institutional?

[4:32:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We can look at that as well.

[4:32:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And secondary dwellings is another separate issue altogether.

[4:32:16] Voice 8: I think it's second, yeah.

[4:32:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because if you're building a secondary dwelling, especially if you're building it for rentals

[4:32:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whatever then you need to start thinking about adding water supply yeah so i'll tell you on

[4:32:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): may 9th they had had second they had systems for their secondary for their secondary suites as a

[4:32:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): as a requirement for a long time and then they've gone to systems for all the folks

[4:32:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so that could be also an alternative is that you just have them for that so we'll come

[4:32:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): back with some options that can

[4:32:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provide some flexibility that would be really helpful i mean

[4:32:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): one of the good things in these amenities that you've listed up above here is including storage

[4:32:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): reservoirs yes i mean if we had a property we've all been dreaming of the property we all are

[4:33:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thinking of all the time for storage of water um which is hoggin lake which is already there

[4:33:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and some way for the community to purchase that land and and have a community water supply

[4:33:16] Voice 8: where

[4:33:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where we could still have water trucks from one place to another.

[4:33:22] Voice 8: Can we

[4:33:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have community wells that you've written there?

[4:33:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Community wells for domestic water supply?

[4:33:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You can add that.

[4:33:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No, it's in your subdivision provisions.

[4:33:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because I thought a community service...

[4:33:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I've been wanting to see if we can explore a zoning for community water supply.

[4:33:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That is community service.

[4:33:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Can we, do you mean to add that as a zone, or you might, you might right like when you get there to that place. Yeah. Right. Right. But you wouldn't want to have that zone in the OCP, OCP.

[4:33:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You can't designate the country, like you wouldn't, like, so we're looking at does it like the land use designations. Right. The zoning would specify what can happen in a particular lot.

[4:34:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): no but if you describe the zone and what could happen but it's not applied to a map because it

[4:34:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): doesn't yet exist but it comes through they

[4:34:19] Voice 6: could have a policy that the ocp supports the creation

[4:34:22] Voice 6: of yeah you could have something like

[4:34:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that that's what everybody's

[4:34:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): asking for we need a water

[4:34:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): battery catchment system community wells community water system something that needs to be in there

[4:34:37] Voice 9: You probably want this, you may want this policy anyways, but just as information public utilities, which just may fall within there, typically, and that is the case when Gabriel permitted in any zone and so that's

[4:34:51] Voice 9: Well,

[4:34:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not a freshwater answered so

[4:34:54] That

[4:34:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be good to just go to a public utility.

[4:35:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, because I've heard different opinions of community, water, zoning, community supply

[4:35:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to water is not possible.

[4:35:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It would be possible, it would be possible to have

[4:35:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a willing community and a place to

[4:35:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): do it.

[4:35:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[4:35:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So there's a typo on 24294, last sentence, there has been some interest but I'm not sure.

[4:35:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean we'll have to come back to the bulk water sales because whether that community

[4:35:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water zone could or service zone could be used to extract water for groundwater for

[4:35:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sale or not yeah well I mean yeah yeah let's see we'll think about it we'll come back to

[4:36:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy. All right, let's keep chugging then. Okay, so this

[4:36:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): other one is a big, this is a bit of a discussion. So the

[4:36:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy currently requires that potable rainwater catchment

[4:36:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): systems consist consistent with installation and maintenance

[4:36:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): requirements of how it's called for for all secondary and

[4:36:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): excessive accessory dwelling units. Secondary suites, it

[4:36:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should be secondary suites and accessories in the freshwater

[4:36:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): housing area. So that means if you're having, you can have an

[4:36:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): additional you would be required to have your brain water catchment system actually potable.

[4:36:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And so there's a conversation here around whether that should right now it's speaking only to

[4:36:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): residential but so that it was raised that it should maybe oh sorry yeah it should be

[4:37:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): expanded to commercial and institutional this is a fresh water hazard area.

[4:37:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Which makes sense. There's also a discussion around whether it should just be expanded beyond the freshwater hazard area for all additional secondary units.

[4:37:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, lots of conversation around that, especially additional units.

[4:37:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, if there would have been an additional unit in, they should make sure they have some way of catching or holding water.

[4:37:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's really a question for the Open Sea is, I mean, what if we put it, put it in there

[4:37:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for first reading?

[4:37:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): To expand it to all, beyond the freshwater pathway zone, or?

[4:37:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The entire, the entire island is.

[4:37:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So the one, so the one, well that's true, so the one, I guess, challenge with that might

[4:38:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be that they are, it's a considerable investment.

[4:38:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): investment. And so it does kind of, it would make it more expensive for legalized, say,

[4:38:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so these small units that may be more expensive.

[4:38:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, I don't know, what about leaving out residential but including commercial and institutional?

[4:38:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So to expand to new residential, commercial and institutional developments requiring probable

[4:38:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water in the in the in the fresh water hazard area yeah for sure they have to have it in the

[4:38:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): fresh water hazard area like we're all new so that would be the expanded like not just

[4:38:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for residential but for all yeah so so what about outside so this is

[4:38:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): new construction not

[4:38:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): necessarily additional dwelling it is accessory right now it's just so the way it's written right

[4:39:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): now yeah it's only requiring this this is the requirement for secondary units whether there

[4:39:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are suites or separate units in the freshwater hazard area right so residential secondary

[4:39:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): second uh residential unit you're going to have if you're going to put in a secondary suite

[4:39:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's what the requirement is in the freshwater hazard area so the question is whether you want

[4:39:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to expand it to all new all new developments so including primary right all new in all new

[4:39:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): developments of in the freshwater hazard area um including including primary dwellings including

[4:39:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): commercial including institutional that would be using audible water that's one option and the

[4:40:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the other one is whether you just want to require everyone all new not just the fresh water so i

[4:40:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): think that's where the pushback is you could require all new to have some means of water

[4:40:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): catchment yeah sister swales ponds not necessarily not necessarily right now yeah and i think that

[4:40:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): seems to be a more amenable way to go with with yeah but in the freshwater hazard area

[4:40:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): area. I'm thinking it probably does need to be covered up for all new. That's it. So let

[4:40:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): them be deciding between all new development. Maybe not. Maybe as long as they have some

[4:40:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): means of water catchment, which they would, because if you have that policy around requiring

[4:40:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that, you know, system or whatever, it might be alternative. I don't know. But do you think

[4:40:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it could be potable or not potable? I mean, at some point, some of these new builds, no

[4:40:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): matter where they are, fresh water has it or not, they're going to need potable water.

[4:41:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): They can make it potable after they have a catchment system. The big deal is ensuring

[4:41:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that there's some catchment system when they build in the first place. And it's cheaper to

[4:41:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): do it when you build than it is to add it later. I know. I've done both. I mean, you're already

[4:41:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you're already requiring that yeah just whether whether you require that it's positive yeah

[4:41:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah now you're requiring that second unit yeah there are people who argue that you know you

[4:41:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): should give a little more credence to people's common sense that you're buying a property

[4:41:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and if they know it's in an area that's not abundant in fresh water they're going to provide

[4:41:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provide their own water system, that requiring it is too much regulation.

[4:41:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's the argument that I've heard.

[4:41:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think I support right now sticking with this path, secondary and accessory dwelling

[4:42:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): units, because that's extra, and the potential is that those accessory dwelling units turn

[4:42:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): turn it to T and P's or turn it to other uses,

[4:42:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whereas it could as well.

[4:42:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I don't know, it's a tough one.

[4:42:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Do you have experience doing exactly this

[4:42:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in another community and lots of pushback?

[4:42:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All that we've done in the other communities

[4:42:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is just require a cistern.

[4:42:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's the extent of it.

[4:42:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Salt springs.

[4:42:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Salt springs, a lot of just require one.

[4:42:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I'm just saying the work that I've done.

[4:42:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[4:42:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah so um but yeah like salt screen does require the potable for them so so that's where this is

[4:42:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so this would be going beyond what what uh the admin has done yeah we

[4:42:59] Voice 11: have done variances

[4:43:01] Voice 11: yes where they've had sufficient water and don't need it yeah yeah so there that is

[4:43:06] Voice 11: the challenges

[4:43:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with requiring potable rainwater catchment rainwater you know it okay let's say

[4:43:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you've got a lot that i'm just trying to think it through here you've got a well it would have

[4:43:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be a five acre lot unless we're allowing accessory drilling units on lots that are

[4:43:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): smaller but not in the hazard area so it's got to be a five acre lot we're talking about

[4:43:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): boat right and it's in the hazard area and now they're going to be required for that new house

[4:43:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to build to have a potable rain catchment system i think that makes sense i mean they're probably

[4:43:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): going to need it anyways definitely for construction of commercial and institutional

[4:43:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 100 but is that does the province allow that to have multiple hookups to the rainwater

[4:44:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): harvesting system i thought it was only one one household hookup through system

[4:44:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well this is you're just requiring the system for that okay so we're not not requiring it for

[4:44:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the primary as well there yeah no but for commercial like if there's a commercial

[4:44:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): marina right in the freshwater hazard zone and there's 15 units

[4:44:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's I don't think they can get a potable rainwater harvesting system oh yes that's I think

[4:44:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that we can go over what town area it looks like it is so we can look into that so yeah potable

[4:44:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rainwater harvesting or yeah I don't think

[4:44:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you can require it for multi hookups that's still

[4:44:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): single is my understanding unless they've changed that yeah it's okay to look I need to look into

[4:45:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that because there's something around multi-unit housing where it's very difficult uh that's there's

[4:45:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): some difficulty around that but i

[4:45:13] Voice 9: believe these pieces please yeah that's that's that but maybe

[4:45:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not for potable but there's been

[4:45:19] Voice 9: some progress we should

[4:45:20] Voice 11: research there has been i know there's

[4:45:23] Voice 11: been a lot of dr

[4:45:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gordon the crd water commissioner yeah like he's he's been advocating for multi

[4:45:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): multi-suite hookups for rainwater harvesting because he wrote the technical manual for the

[4:45:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): harvesting and so he's he's been advocating for that for a long time and my thought was it just

[4:45:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hasn't they still don't allow two suites to be hooked up to the same system but that may have

[4:45:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): changed so that's where it's different for potable versus just a rainwater catchment system

[4:45:57] Voice 11: we can come back to this one first yeah

[4:46:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think give it more thought like with respect to the

[4:46:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): multi-unit what we thought was new was an opportunity through the rezoning to think

[4:46:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about what the water requirement yes situation would be yeah i'm not sorry in the these policies

[4:46:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to you know to assess water i think we have a lot of national science department

[4:46:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): environment.

[4:46:24] Voice 8: I don't think

[4:46:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we can give you an answer on that.

[4:46:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. Okay, we'll leave it at this for now. Okay, so moving

[4:46:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on. Moving on in the plate industrial so that yes, there's

[4:46:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): questioning around what is industrial. There's language in

[4:46:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 2.4.2.1 that relates to heavy truck traffic and significant

[4:46:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): significant amount of water and it's not defined. So this is where you could just leave it up

[4:47:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to the enforcement to go through the process for that to be defined, which kind of leaves

[4:47:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it open to remove that. There's nothing that's going to prohibiting you from having that

[4:47:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): policy in there.

[4:47:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But whether it can be enforced is something to do with it.

[4:47:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): The enforcement can be that kind of challenge.

[4:47:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But exclusion of heavy industry, not clear. Yeah, so you're still kind of looking into

[4:47:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to that and like there's so many people's different interpretation of what's light

[4:47:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): industry and what's heavy industry this is actually this look this is a that's a holdover

[4:47:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think that was a former policy that that was just it's a heavy industry like there's a there's

[4:47:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): planning categories for what what qualifies as light industrial heavy industrial there's got to

[4:47:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be specific activities that would qualify as heavy but even light industrial in in a city or

[4:47:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): municipality that has outlying areas where you can make industrial parks which sometimes just

[4:48:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for light industry that's that's different on an island where you don't have that space

[4:48:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to do something like a light industry i think all for sale we

[4:48:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): found to like you don't it

[4:48:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what's allowed so i'm just going to

[4:48:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): say like near light industrial zone kind of right next to one

[4:48:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's one building and it's Bowling Books storage.

[4:48:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It's considered industrial.

[4:48:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It was a healthcare facility at one point.

[4:48:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But it's defined within the zone, so if something was to be created, it would be defined within

[4:48:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the zoning with the use permitted.

[4:48:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because that sounds like commercial.

[4:48:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That just sounds like commercial, right?

[4:48:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Light industry, you think of as a machine shop, maybe, or a car repair, or, you know,

[4:48:55] Voice 3: some car

[4:48:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): repair would be a light industry.

[4:48:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because in Courtney, there's a Tin Town area, right?

[4:49:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I sometimes have meetings there, and there's all sorts of, like, industrial, as well as

[4:49:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): commercial, kind of mix, but there's no heavy industrial.

[4:49:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so I think with respect to this policy, you could leave it in, and just, it's a guideline

[4:49:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for zoning. I don't love the ambiguity, but since we're on the topic of industrial, does the OCP mean to allow for mixed-use zoning?

[4:49:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I have a policy saying that landowners can apply for a mixed-use, or is it just one zone?

[4:49:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, right now, if we say that you can have residential, like if you say that you can

[4:49:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have residential in industrial, again, it comes back to the zone, right?

[4:49:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Like if you can have a light industrial zone and allow residential or allow commercial

[4:49:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): use, I mean, essentially that's a good excuse.

[4:50:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, but

[4:50:04] Voice 8: that's allowed the

[4:50:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): current drop.

[4:50:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It wouldn't prohibit that.

[4:50:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): No, it's not saying that you can't have those other uses.

[4:50:12] Voice 3: is that

[4:50:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would be because again that's regulatory and that's what we've tried to do is to actually

[4:50:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): make this nocp that reads like nocp invaluable okay yeah all right um so on industrial uh there

[4:50:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): was some discussion around excluding heavy like a program vision on heavy industry um yeah i just

[4:50:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): want i mean i'm just capturing that so it was something that came up and i just wanted to see

[4:50:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what your thoughts were there yeah for sure if you want to run a heavy industry you've got the

[4:50:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): long ways really yeah okay so we could we could have a policy in general maybe that relates to

[4:50:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that and you know under aggregate i really like the two options that you've given us here

[4:51:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because mostly they're just advocacy they are kind of and that's so trying to um

[4:51:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): zero away from having a lot of like having this be advocacy-heavy, which is what a lot

[4:51:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of unstressed OCPs tend to be, because we move them over, but there are some places

[4:51:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where I think it feels like it is appropriate, because we have designations and related zones

[4:51:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that are specific to that, and so in this case, if it is provincial, at least this way,

[4:51:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it is advocacy in nature, but it's...

[4:51:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I

[4:51:40] Voice 11: think the Local Government Act, this is one of the requirements that you have to identify where aggregate can be.

[4:51:46] Voice 8: I know, it's crazy.

[4:51:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So

[4:51:47] Voice 8: that they can take over.

[4:51:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[4:51:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So just for anyone listening, the current policy is a legacy from our current OCP, which is that the product will be exclusively for local use.

[4:52:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But the feedback is that we can't, we're not, we don't direct how a business uses its product.

[4:52:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and so that's stepping outside of the jurisdiction so i like the two proposed

[4:52:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well they didn't

[4:52:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): indicate what the interest of the

[4:52:16] Voice 1: island is yeah exactly

[4:52:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): not having it all go

[4:52:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): over on the ferry but we had no control of that yeah yeah sure and then the one you've got for

[4:52:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hospice care and boarding homes um i like that like i like the options that you're giving us

[4:52:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): under the discussion there um yeah um a

[4:52:39] Voice 11: new one that i learned on salt school community care

[4:52:43] Voice 11: facilities or homes it's one or the other the provincial act

[4:52:47] Voice 11: actually says you cannot prohibit

[4:52:49] Voice 11: them from any residential zone it's a community care facility so it

[4:52:55] Voice 11: was new to me i didn't

[4:52:56] Voice 6: but they're licensed they have to be licensed there's certain conditions yeah

[4:53:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well so this is

[4:53:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because the well i mean this is really this policy is really just speaking like it's just

[4:53:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): acknowledging that those can happen so they could happen anyways yeah so that's

[4:53:12] Voice 6: pretty good but i'm

[4:53:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just saying if

[4:53:13] Voice 6: you might want to look up the community care facility should be addressed

[4:53:17] Voice 6: and the other is transition homes um i i know uh so at salt spring we're looking at uh allowing

[4:53:23] Voice 6: them in all residential zones as long as they're under eight or ten people it's it's matching the

[4:53:29] Voice 6: problems but yeah

[4:53:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay we'll have a look at that yeah but you do say small similar small scale

[4:53:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): supportive residential uses i think would count yeah which i think captures that which is great

[4:53:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i i think we should include that i think that's a really good policy i think i haven't

[4:53:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): done any more thought i'm going to look at some

[4:53:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the other ltc ocps because the homie policy we

[4:53:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I think I think it's because we didn't have I think the existing has a lot of adequacy around

[4:54:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that uh and so we'll look at uh we'll look at some it's going

[4:54:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be a big it's going to have

[4:54:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to be a big focus of our community is how to care for our elders because there may not there's not

[4:54:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): oh right yeah yeah there's no places for them to go and I'm all we've already moved back to marine

[4:54:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We need

[4:54:34] Voice 6: the full range and there's, there is more legislative, you know, I mean, so

[4:54:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in the marine density and use, I just want to make sure that anytime we're talking about

[4:54:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about the foreshore or marine zone,

[4:54:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I know it's already in the DPA for marine,

[4:54:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that we don't forget the dark sky principles.

[4:54:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And there's two ways to approach those.

[4:54:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You're either adhering to them

[4:55:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with something pretty specific, like a DPA, right?

[4:55:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You're actually adhering to those dark sky principles,

[4:55:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or you're considering them, or you're following them,

[4:55:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or you're being mindful of them, whatever.

[4:55:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): whatever. Yeah, so I think in general regs, we're going to put like a section on dark skies in the general regulations, which would apply to all the desert regions.

[4:55:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Which is really helpful, because then you can determine, oh it is appropriate here, it is, and you can ask for that if you're able to.

[4:55:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah and it's just reminding people how important that is because the more development you have

[4:55:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): especially around the foreshore where the lights affect marine creatures they don't just affect

[4:55:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): humans and migrating birds and insects they affect marine creatures who need dark water

[4:55:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the breeding season and

[4:55:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so additional thoughts about marine is that what yeah yeah that's hilarious

[4:56:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's just like you gotta provide the toilet do whatever else you want there's no lighting in

[4:56:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): those toilets right um but i mean water use obviously um and is there is there a way that

[4:56:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this is a bit i'm actually it's coming from decorsi decorsi island has an amazing community

[4:56:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of korea and apparently it was one of the first under the islands trust to uh be structured and

[4:56:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): just was over there and and talking to them and it has specific community benefit like community

[4:56:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): services as part of its zoning so the the part of it we i think we should look at de courcy marina

[4:57:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because it's coming back to if if there's a change in marine use uh should it be for community

[4:57:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): benefit should it be that they provide uh services you know whether over there they do road grading

[4:57:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): they do um their own fire protection their own fire protection like the marina is kind of central

[4:57:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but it holds a very unique kind of

[4:57:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): set of activities so i think community service marinas

[4:57:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And, you know, like priority should be given to proposals for whatever community service.

[4:57:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And then, of course, the water, like I was just looking at an email from water management

[4:57:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): plans, you know, the provision of water adequate for the, you know, use should be assured,

[4:57:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know, that's not going to deplete neighboring waters and stuff like that.

[4:58:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I think water and runoff, water community service and runoff at least would be the three

[4:58:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): sort of criteria that a new, that a change in use for a marina would be allowed, potentially.

[4:58:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Cool.

[4:58:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And we'll, yeah, we'll look at, of course, we'll see, we'll see what else there is.

[4:58:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the episode Jason Yeomans did an awesome overview of marinas in the trust area

[4:58:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gosh it's it was part of the housing it's part of the housing toolkit yeah or

[4:58:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): no it came out

[4:58:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it was before that he he did one he did it he did a piece on community marinas and docks

[4:58:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and there's a big overview of all the different ways that they're allowed

[4:58:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cool all

[4:59:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right okay flexible

[4:59:01] Voice 8: housing all right this

[4:59:02] Voice 8: is a big one

[4:59:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah seems to be quite a contentious

[4:59:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um uh issue there's a number of people who've raised some concerns related to the lack of

[4:59:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): limits that uh are identified there's no limits identified in the ocp around what this uh what

[4:59:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the number of volumes or maximum size is and so it's valid um um so one thing that we can be doing

[4:59:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is we can put those limits into the land use bylaw right away, as we update the land use

[4:59:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): bylaw. And what you've got in front of you there are what has been identified for Maine

[4:59:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Island. So this is looking at the Maine Island recent changes, or I guess two years ago.

[4:59:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I think what's important to kind of point out in this is that Maynard has not received it yet.

[5:00:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any building permits related to flex housing so people aren't rushing up to get to get them there

[5:00:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are um two families that i'm aware of that are very thankful that the opportunity exists for

[5:00:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): them now because they have um they have children and and um and and parents um and they they they

[5:00:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): see that are living on the property with pregnant and small confined spaces or you know in the case

[5:00:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of the kids living in a bus or what have you um and so it is an opportunity now for them to be able

[5:00:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to share the land uh with their kids and for them not to have to live with them so just quickly um

[5:00:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): those um do they include extra water catchment provisions well that would be um at all

[5:00:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i think we do have that that they would need to have the it would be a similar thing to whatever

[5:00:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the secondary you know right now we've got new we've got right now we say systems for all new

[5:00:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): builds right these

[5:01:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): would these would be yeah okay built and then depending on size right you've got

[5:01:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): two system sizes and so whatever that what i don't know how can we change that it would be applicable

[5:01:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to these units as well as as the secondary units

[5:01:14] Voice 9: and they would go through a rezoning process yeah

[5:01:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yes they'd have to go through the process

[5:01:17] Voice 9: yeah what's your plan yeah

[5:01:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i think that's another

[5:01:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): another important consideration for those that have some issue with the flexible housing idea

[5:01:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is that when you again when you look at what they have to go through to actually get the property

[5:01:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rezoned to achieve this yeah it's quite a bit so yeah yeah so I'm sorry well just one really

[5:01:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): quick question I've had two people say to me well why do we say dwellings and a cottage when

[5:01:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and cottages are clearly well yeah you know what this is sorry this is coming straight from

[5:01:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): main island and i agree because i yeah two people i know who could tell me they're living in a

[5:02:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): cottage that's not a cottage that's a big house yeah you

[5:02:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know what we're going to remove that

[5:02:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): language that cottage language i should have done that previously i did this really quickly before i

[5:02:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah sent it off but it'll it'll reflect the language that that is okay that's great and

[5:02:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and this is a weird thing with main island and they the the thing is that we haven't been using

[5:02:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh consistent words across the trust area right we need to we need to have that efficiency and

[5:02:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the challenge one challenge that we are going to have is that there are covenants that have

[5:02:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the older language and the language for some will be cottage it might be cabin right whatever so um

[5:02:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something archaic possibly yeah that's right so that's why i mean kind of maintaining that

[5:02:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): language but i think where we now have a regional plan we have many planners thinking about uh this

[5:02:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): consistency and how we can actually that can only be helpful for planners right they have the same

[5:03:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): language oh yeah like a provider it must drive planners crazy when they have a lot

[5:03:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right i mean that was my first thought is oh yeah more consistency is going to be helpful

[5:03:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for every month yes anything else so yeah i i just think the communication on this policy is

[5:03:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's not clear there is that you and i have had conversations about this and i've seen maine go

[5:03:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): through its flex housing um like at the moment well if this plan was approved as as it stands

[5:03:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the current drafting the plan supports flexible housing options um does that mean anywhere on

[5:03:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the island that is not in a freshwater hazard zone would be permitted to have two or small

[5:03:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): two or more small dwellings or would the flex housing zone need to be developed through a

[5:03:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): separate project and mapped and then in that area you can have those additional dwellings

[5:04:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so what the policy supports is a local trust committee project that may identify

[5:04:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): identify the zone or individuals to apply for rezoning then i think the policy should make that

[5:04:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): more explicit okay because supports flexible housing options i think this is where some of

[5:04:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the confusion's coming in it sounds like everywhere instead of a single family dwelling you can have

[5:04:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): two or three dwellings and it's not clear that in if you're saying you know so

[5:04:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): let's say supports

[5:04:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): force rezoning for? No, it doesn't. I'm looking at 2.4 point

[5:04:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 3.6. I'm looking at two, four, two, one, two. What? I'm looking

[5:04:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): at two, four, two, one, two, flexible housing options.

[5:05:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Residential density policies. Yeah, okay, well, we can be

[5:05:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): specific, you should say sports. Yeah, we can we can put the

[5:05:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rezoning, we support rezoning for because the policy 2.4 point

[5:05:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes, I hear your point, and we can definitely make sure that that's clear.

[5:05:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Let me just catch up.

[5:05:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 24363.

[5:05:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): 24363.

[5:05:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So that's the only

[5:05:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): question.

[5:05:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Right.

[5:05:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[5:05:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so I was back in the general land and these policies.

[5:05:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So I want to just compare 2.4.2.1.2 with, yeah, okay we can we can make sure that 2.4.2.1.2 is explicit about that re-zoning.

[5:06:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That is re-rezoning or in a flex zoning area that is designated or something.

[5:06:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, so

[5:06:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): rezoning for, so rezoning means it could be LTC rezoning it, or it could be an individual application.

[5:06:27] Voice 8: Yeah, right. Okay.

[5:06:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, because this just looks like it permits it out, right? And I think that's what people are reacting to.

[5:06:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah yeah yeah okay okay and then the second question i had on that sorry back to that

[5:06:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): same policy the question of may versus must somebody said why not must regulate areas of

[5:06:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the island now discussion must is not a policy language that we're going to but what if what

[5:07:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if this language was reversed flexible housing may be permitted on a lot based on the list

[5:07:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): if the if the in areas that the ltc designates as flexible housing or something well again

[5:07:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um you want to preclude the ability for individuals to rezone for flexible housing

[5:07:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): no okay so then if we keep it open then it's both they reflect it's both supporting an ltc

[5:07:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): initiated project as well. Okay I just think that language yeah okay that makes it more clear.

[5:07:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay so we're good with that? I don't think so we can come back.

[5:07:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So TUPs it was identified that there's a list of TUP exemptions which is interesting.

[5:08:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thing. So what's interesting about your TEP section altogether

[5:08:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is that you have your like TEP guidelines for some very

[5:08:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): specific things in there, which is not necessarily...

[5:08:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): It doesn't seem like it belongs in an OCP. It doesn't

[5:08:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): seem like it belongs in it.

[5:08:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, it doesn't. So we've already said, we put that we put

[5:08:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that into the land use bylaw. And so it's unique, your

[5:08:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): existing is unique because it has these guidelines for TUPs for specific uses and it also has these

[5:08:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): exemptions for TUPs which is not something that you necessarily see and I think it's also it has

[5:08:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): been confusing to community members who said oh well what about TUPs for x use well yes you can

[5:08:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): certainly you know have a TUP for all uses so I mean that's a question you can remove you could

[5:08:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): to remove your TUP exemptions, you can remove your TUP guidelines altogether. The guidelines

[5:09:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): exist within the TUP, right? So you could use them if you think you're going to continue to get those

[5:09:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): types of TUPs consistently. I mean, I think some OCPs have the TUP guidelines for short-term

[5:09:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): vacation rentals, for example, something that they get frequently. They

[5:09:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have them in there because

[5:09:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): it's an easy it's easy to find it um so that's just a question like how you know if you want to

[5:09:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): keep the the list of exemptions in there do you want to keep the guidelines that you have

[5:09:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on those very specific yeah well we definitely make very good use of the tup guidelines for

[5:09:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): short-term vacation rentals and that's like a gabriel uh sort of homegrown um regulatory

[5:09:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): regulatory thing that works for us very well. And I'm always so grateful to the planners who came up with that in the first place. As far as all those exemptions, they should probably just disappear.

[5:10:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): here.

[5:10:06] Voice 8: Just looking at the

[5:10:10] Voice 11: exemptions

[5:10:19] Voice 9: are designated in

[5:10:21] Voice 9: certain areas where you can apply for certain types of

[5:10:26] Voice 9: duties. They're not exempting. You know, the need for it.

[5:10:32] Voice 9: Yeah,

[5:10:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): exactly. And that, I don't know, what do you think? Is that

[5:10:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that helpful where those areas because we have new maps now too like we have new OCP maps now

[5:10:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): different designations so that's why I thought initially maybe we should get rid of that whole

[5:10:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): statement about exemptions and just deal with them but have some statements about well this is

[5:10:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): absolutely not going to be like you're not doing this because we because if you want to do this

[5:11:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you need to apply for rezoning you know what i mean chair

[5:11:10] Voice 9: the yeah the i think the intent of

[5:11:13] Voice 9: of having this kind of set out this way is that you don't receive applications in areas that you

[5:11:19] Voice 9: already feel are not suitable for that use but what you can accomplish some of that intent through

[5:11:27] Voice 9: guidelines if you look at your guidelines and have you know if it's water for example that

[5:11:33] Voice 9: you're concerned about in a certain area and have a guideline related to that um you're still going

[5:11:38] Voice 9: to receive the application possibly but whether there's going to be a need to show um whatever

[5:11:45] Voice 9: it is you might need to see um i i'll say that on gabriel uh i can't think of and this is probably

[5:11:54] Voice 9: just in the last three or four years really but i can't think of a tupi application we've received

[5:11:58] Voice 9: that hasn't been for a commercial vacation rental i can't think of one that was for something else

[5:12:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So what I do like, though, there's a guideline for tiny homes and RVs.

[5:12:11] Voice 3: Yeah,

[5:12:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so we could have that. I mean, you could decide that you...

[5:12:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And I think if you want to retain that, we'd actually have to add a little bit more to that.

[5:12:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, definitely.

[5:12:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Book up your water.

[5:12:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, all of that. So I agree. Book ups to domestic water and all that kind of stuff.

[5:12:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But the other thing, include a policy that prohibits future permits for the private sale of on-island water.

[5:12:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Now, this is interesting because I've been talking for two years about a possible community water supply,

[5:12:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which means that you still need a someone working as a provisioner

[5:12:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because we're not in water districts with piping we're in to be a community

[5:12:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water supply where someone would come with a water truck and make use of that

[5:13:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water supply and have a business and that you know you probably only

[5:13:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): probably can support more than two I think we have two on island on island

[5:13:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water delivery services now maybe three um so i wouldn't want to prohibit them from

[5:13:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): making use of that but there would be really strong limits on how that commercial commercial

[5:13:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): provisioner would be using that community water supply you know what i'm saying that would be

[5:13:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in your so this is where i would suggest that i mean that would be if we ever get that i mean

[5:13:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You know, you have the application for the TUP and then that would specify the use of

[5:13:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): .

[5:13:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[5:13:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So maybe enhance TUP, I mean generally I would never think of approving the TUP for extracting

[5:14:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): water in anywhere really.

[5:14:04] Voice 8: Well,

[5:14:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): William had some feedback on this when I asked the question much earlier.

[5:14:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because generally I would want them to rezone, you know.

[5:14:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well see this is where like you don't have to have the guidelines in your ocp you can just

[5:14:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): remove them and then it's site specific it's a site specific yeah yeah i think that's better

[5:14:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i really do because this is an ocp it's not the land use file and we're going to move these to

[5:14:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the landing file yeah but again i mean you might end up changing it when you you know so having it

[5:14:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in because each circumstance is going to be different so yeah that's the question of whether

[5:14:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you want to have these sort of general guidelines in there and again i think it makes sense when you

[5:14:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have something that you have frequently so that that so that the public themselves even can like

[5:14:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): know they can go and they can say okay well this you know in the case of vacation windows

[5:14:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah this is like tiny homes and rvs that makes sense that you'd have maybe a tup and you might

[5:15:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): might even extend it for an extra three years because you know it's

[5:15:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): your temporary dwelling

[5:15:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but it could also be your permanent plot um in which case but something that you could probably

[5:15:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anticipate that you could be having but like the water processing you can speculate all you want

[5:15:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what it would look like but maybe if you took that out yeah then you would just it would be

[5:15:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): site specifically yeah yeah William's feedback from this in May was he need to do more analysis

[5:15:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but we didn't come back to it but his his when we asked this question about TUPs for industrial

[5:15:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): non-invested water use he said TUPs for industrial water use event of any kind is problematic

[5:15:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): does it require a water license to undertake that work which today it takes time stays with

[5:15:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the well for a conditional period that is usually 25 years until the next review therefore if the

[5:16:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): tup expires without a rezoning there's a license that is grounded that can't be used based on local

[5:16:07] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): government zoning yeah this whole section is just yeah i was suggesting

[5:16:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i mean my suggestion would

[5:16:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): be that yeah you take it you take that yeah that out you know you have your general staff or

[5:16:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): anything you decide whether you want to keep the aggregate processing in the limited public markets

[5:16:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i mean that one is also a bit weird that one's too weird the limited public market is totally weird

[5:16:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and i would suggest again you know keep vacation rentals and in chinese people speak to like

[5:16:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): housing related things that and and that's where like residents could then like if you look to the

[5:16:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): line as well and it looks good and thanks oh i could do this for three years and then think

[5:16:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): about like where to go from there yeah i think that's great we'll take out the exemptions and

[5:16:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we'll take out everything except for vacation rentals and anything right and maybe add a bit

[5:17:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so question just which occurred to me as i was looking at the guideline about water metering for

[5:17:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): vacation rentals the ltc may require water appearing i

[5:17:21] Voice 8: thought this is some is this

[5:17:23] Voice 8: something we can do as a condition of use because this could be useful if

[5:17:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): as an alternative for

[5:17:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): requiring rainwater harvesting systems for probable use if we didn't if a proponent if

[5:17:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): somebody wanted to make an exception it could be an exception made if they would agree to

[5:17:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have the water meters but then how would you regulate the check yeah like that's like what

[5:17:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): are your resources because we're not a water district like on salt stream it's commuter and

[5:18:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something could happen and you pay for it you need a whole sort of system the

[5:18:11] Voice 11: province has to

[5:18:13] Voice 6: regulate the metering of private wells and then that's something we should be advocating for

[5:18:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i mean it's a great idea well it's in the guideline like it

[5:18:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): looks like we're allowed to

[5:18:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): or we are requiring.

[5:18:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, I mean, I guess it's in there for

[5:18:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): vacation, maybe that's something we could do,

[5:18:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but I think you were thinking in the context of

[5:18:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, I'm just trying to think of,

[5:18:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah, like, I've been

[5:18:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): asked the question by a couple of people

[5:18:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): why can't the LTC meter

[5:18:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all of us and regulate

[5:18:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this? So it's like, this is

[5:18:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): a conversation everywhere.

[5:18:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You need to make the higher speed.

[5:18:50] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Like, I mean, for example, like,

[5:18:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): housing agreements, this was a whole discussion that we had

[5:18:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): of around for for denman can we require housing units for every um uh additional unit like an

[5:19:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): additional secondary unit and the the the thing is yeah you could but but keeping like

[5:19:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but you wouldn't it's kind of useless because we don't have the staff not

[5:19:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ready to actually

[5:19:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): added to get that so yeah be similar all right

[5:19:22] Voice 11: okay so moving on

[5:19:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): from GEPs secondary dwellings

[5:19:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um okay so um yeah so this is one thing we wanted this is actually we wanted to bring this up um

[5:19:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so in the rural residential and agricultural designation one principal dwelling and one

[5:19:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): One secondary suite is permitted on lots, two hectares or larger.

[5:19:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Outside the freshwater hazard area, one principal dwelling and one secondary suite and one detached secondary is permitted.

[5:19:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): minute so if you are so uh so so the shift here is um is that you're you're now this is the one

[5:20:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): place where where you're taking something away and this is something to kind of keep in mind so

[5:20:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what we're saying here is that if you are so if you are in the agricultural uh designation

[5:20:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you'd be currently allowed to have, in general, you're currently allowed to have a secondary

[5:20:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): suite and a detached unit, but what we're saying here is that if you are in the ICO

[5:20:38] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): designation, that you are only allowed to have a secondary suite if you're in the freshwater

[5:20:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hazard area.

[5:20:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So we want to raise this with the trustees for some discussion, because you have the

[5:20:52] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): opportunity to consider whether you want to increase the flexibility for those uh properties

[5:20:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in the agriculture to have a secondary suite for a detached secondary unit the ones that are within

[5:21:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the freshwater hazard area or you can even consider yeah so i have a question um under

[5:21:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): chadwick so it says here consider whether they want to increase flexibility to allow

[5:21:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): allow one secondary suite or one detached secondary dwelling unit within the freshwater

[5:21:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hazard area, but it doesn't say anything about agricultural.

[5:21:27] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): This is within the agricultural, yeah, sorry, that's within the agricultural zone.

[5:21:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh, okay, because I've had a whole bunch of people say, oh, that's crazy to allow it in

[5:21:37] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the freshwater hazard zone to have extra dwellings in the freshwater hazard zone, but it doesn't

[5:21:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): say anything here about...

[5:21:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes, the point here is that currently in the agricultural designation, you're allowed to have a secondary suite and a detached that's conforming with the ALR.

[5:22:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): ALR, yeah. So what we, what this OCP is saying is that you're, you're only allowed to have one secondary suite if you're in the, if you're in the

[5:22:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): um fresh water hazard area and uranium in your yeah your agriculture and you're in that yeah

[5:22:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so okay so like i said that's where in all instances we're not we haven't taken anything

[5:22:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): away except for in this case you are taking away that ability to have that additional you know what

[5:22:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you can do what you could do is you could increase i mean because they're in the fresh water hazard

[5:22:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): an area they'd already they would already need to have that additional water okay right that's

[5:22:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the catch right there yes good situation okay well that's there's only two areas that are alar

[5:22:53] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that would change my giant no to a maybe well it's not just a lot it's agriculture

[5:23:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah it's not just ale or that because there's agricultural zone that it's not they're not all

[5:23:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): So there's there's there's there's two options here like the way that we that it's written right now it's quite it's quite constraining and it's like only one secondary suite in if you're in the if you're in agriculture and you're in fresh water as an area options are it could be secondary suite for a detached unit and then you only have one or or it could be what what what they're calling it.

[5:23:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): currently allowed but then they you know with the I mean you would already have to have um

[5:23:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): based on our previous discussion they would have to have that potable system okay um that would

[5:23:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that makes me say that might be okay whereas originally um I just had this giant no here

[5:23:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because that is one of the most common comments I've had is like we're not going to allow any

[5:24:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): extra dwellings and what in

[5:24:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the freshwater hazard zone and um sorry

[5:24:06] Voice 8: are we on the exemption form or

[5:24:10] Voice 8: we're on page i

[5:24:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thought we were on anchor folks for helping um i don't know

[5:24:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): what about if you

[5:24:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): leave it in there and see what i mean if we did not have that restriction of adding the water

[5:24:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): i would say absolutely not because they're in a freshwater hazard zone

[5:24:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so why would we allow that to all of that extra density that sounds great it's because density

[5:24:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is not all the same that the humans of well agricultural is is what what i'm kind of focused

[5:24:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on and it's what i keep hearing of course is that is it is incredibly hard to run a farm and

[5:24:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): actually produce food you need people or you need people who have other jobs this is not a

[5:25:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): profitable enterprise anymore but food production infant security is a is a huge focus on the other

[5:25:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): hand it does use a lot of water so if there's a way to limit size and do home plate zoning

[5:25:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): zoning you know where there's an appropriate location it's that ALR concept that you're not

[5:25:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): putting all your lots on spread over the agricultural land but you're again the

[5:25:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): clustering they're small to reduce the impact and you've got a rainwater harvesting system

[5:25:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I mean, yeah, how hard

[5:25:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): do we need to make it for farmers?

[5:25:47] Voice 1: Okay, so let

[5:25:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): me say, if you can change it to allow them to have everything that everybody else gets.

[5:25:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): But, but the restrictions, it would have to have affordable systems for each unit.

[5:26:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And, and maybe there's a proximity to the primary home, which would ensure that

[5:26:09] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): follow the home plate but you don't need um

[5:26:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you know model i mean how many farms do we have right in the freshwater hazards

[5:26:17] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): right actually there probably aren't a lot so i would say you know be generous leave it in there

[5:26:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): with the restrictions on provision of water um and size restrictions to the the buildings because

[5:26:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we're not talking about we're talking about if you if you really are talking about farm

[5:26:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): farm dwellers and workers and families in the freshwater hazard zone then those dwellings

[5:26:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): shouldn't need to be huge let's leave it in there and

[5:26:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): see what people say but i i do feel

[5:26:57] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): differently about just residential so yeah you're asking the same question rural residential and

[5:27:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): agricultural designation so i think that where possible agricultural designated land

[5:27:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Because the primary use is agriculture, but it uses a lot of water, it doesn't guarantee

[5:27:23] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that the units will be used for the farm.

[5:27:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Exactly, because you're not going to be asking for a housing agreement.

[5:27:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): You're just going to have

[5:27:31] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): people moving into those farms that need multiple people.

[5:27:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh yeah, living insurance and renters, you know, add to the income and TUPs for temporary

[5:27:41] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): used you know we've got the garden bed has that yeah yeah i don't think most of them are in the

[5:27:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): freshman yeah i'm really torn on that i think we should wait for feedback from the farmers group

[5:27:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay and maybe think of separating the residential and the agricultural designations i mean

[5:28:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): that's what we have done yeah oh okay yeah yeah yeah i mean i feel the same

[5:28:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and we need farmers. Farmers need water and places.

[5:28:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's a hard one. I don't really know.

[5:28:20] Voice 9: Can I just check in? It's 4 o'clock.

[5:28:23] Voice 11: I'm getting concerned about the time too.

[5:28:25] Voice 9: We have this book until 2

[5:28:28] Voice 11: .30.

[5:28:30] Voice 9: We have a book until 2.30.

[5:28:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We've only got three more pages before we get to the table

[5:28:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): which is, we don't really need to go over the table because the table is just comparing the old to the new.

[5:28:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, I would suggest we sort of whip through it and we can have further discussion.

[5:28:53] Voice 11: Yeah, we

[5:28:54] Voice 6: agree on further discussion. Yeah.

[5:28:57] Voice 6: So the next one is the new policies. Is that where we are?

[5:29:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes, so right now, it's not identifying the size. So that was an issue. It is identifying

[5:29:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the lineage by law. It's because we're going to move away from being more prescriptive,

[5:29:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): but perhaps this is a case where you want that.

[5:29:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): there needs to be some statement about the size because people just panic right let's put it in

[5:29:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for now yeah okay next dark skies this is your dark skies susan needed so these these would be

[5:29:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): general regs which would apply to every yeah yeah just a note on your um policy two four three eight

[5:29:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): three bright lights at night are discouraged it's not just bright light it's like unshielded lights

[5:29:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And also any, like, yeah, so any editorial.

[5:30:00] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you might have related to those um so you're all okay with the dark side dark side dark yeah

[5:30:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay next page there's just a typo exception from agriculture oh yeah

[5:30:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): okay so this is um so this is pretty straightforward this is basically saying

[5:30:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): uh that so right now um it's the local government that can apply to the agricultural alignment

[5:30:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is there for an exemption from farm use and so this is basically saying that you support uh the

[5:30:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): local trust committee to apply for exemption for for except for exemption for farm use for

[5:30:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): affordable housing yeah or traditional units whatever so just a really quick question there

[5:30:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is that hope i think that's what they did for the accessory to farming uses at the

[5:30:49] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): gabriel the commons there's the main uses agriculture and then all of the other uses

[5:30:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yes,

[5:30:54] Voice 8: they probably did.

[5:30:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. And so this is really just applying for that exemption and it's a whole process and then you still have to go through a rezoning. So there's still a public process right there.

[5:31:10] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): What about agriculture and forestry designations and reflects housing potential? Do we want that outside the ALR? I don't know.

[5:31:28] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I if it's agriculture yes this is really about allowing flex housing and agriculture and forestry

[5:31:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): like the ability to just rezone yeah and I'm good with that I just for now just wanted to clarify

[5:31:44] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): yeah um oh yeah no no no water pipeline but that was a thing that came up yeah what about the fixed

[5:31:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah, no fixed link to VI or the main ladder, I think it's

[5:31:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the word fixed link, like there's

[5:32:01] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): something about that.

[5:32:02] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[5:32:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Oh, yeah.

[5:32:04] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And that's the second place for this.

[5:32:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): That's, that's your program.

[5:32:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[5:32:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): All good?

[5:32:12] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[5:32:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Other items for discussion?

[5:32:15] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Well, there's a lot that, you know, folks have sent in one case, 33 pages of, you know,

[5:32:21] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): you're looking at them.

[5:32:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah.

[5:32:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I'm going through every single one of those.

[5:32:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah. Well, it's actually ends up being 40 some odd because there's a whole lot.

[5:32:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And there's a lot of sort of repeat things in that, so I'm not afraid of it.

[5:32:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Okay.

[5:32:39] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): We're going through it, kind of, I'm going through it, each one,

[5:32:42] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and I'm making changes, interact changes, so that you can see them.

[5:32:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): And where it's more editorial in nature, I'm just making the changes.

[5:32:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): where it's something substantive i'm adding it to the i did i had one last question very quick

[5:32:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): in the new lub update subdivision blah blah including requiring provision of transportation

[5:33:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): infrastructure are you also including trails and and paths in that because transportation

[5:33:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): infrastructure when you know are we talking about connecting paths connecting trails or are you

[5:33:18] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): actually talking about roads or what are we talking about there? Provision of transportation?

[5:33:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Yeah it's possible to improve existing networks and contribute to active transportation.

[5:33:29] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Excellent okay active transportation. Do we

[5:33:32] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have any designated rural roadways?

[5:33:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I encourage staff to look at the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs feedback I sent you

[5:33:51] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): the link um there is some stuff about ways to close the system through roadways and actually

[5:33:56] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): categories of seven types of housing needs so um there's stuff that I think I don't want to add

[5:34:03] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): have more but it may be helpful to clarify language at least and thank you to everybody

[5:34:08] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): who's given feedback you know i think some of the submissions are incredible and really help

[5:34:14] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): help us get to where we need to be so we don't have confidence this is

[5:34:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so we try to leave this

[5:34:22] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): resolution the number do we need number three uh yes okay all right i know that the gabriel

[5:34:30] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): on a local trust committee endorsed the changes to the draft gabriel official community plan

[5:34:36] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): prior to first reading as discussed at the july 16th 2026 gabriel island local trust committee

[5:34:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): meeting second second by trustee elliott any discussion all those in favor that carries so

[5:34:49] Voice 6: we've done all of that thank you wow okay all right thank you mission correspondent

[5:34:57] Voice 6: correspondence. Keep us moving because we are in trouble here

[5:35:01] Voice 6: on time. Are there any pieces of correspondence

[5:35:03] Voice 11: that you wish to

[5:35:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): address today?

[5:35:06] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I would add one that I would, I can read out somebody just left

[5:35:11] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): us a note. I don't know if that's

[5:35:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): well,

[5:35:15] Voice 9: the policy is that

[5:35:18] Voice 9: Okay,

[5:35:20] Voice 6: okay. All right. So we'll receive all the correspondence

[5:35:24] Voice 6: for information yeah new

[5:35:26] Voice 11: business the community stewardship award ceremony discussion so it's

[5:35:31] Voice 11: recommended we have a resolution there at 12.1

[5:35:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): for the september 3rd okay um i move that gabriel

[5:35:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): local trust committee authorized up to 150 dollars to be used to host a community stewardship award

[5:35:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): board celebration event as part of the september 3rd 2026 regular business meeting second second

[5:35:55] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): any discussion wait we have comments this

[5:35:58] Voice 9: happened all really fast uh our staff

[5:36:03] Voice 9: probably maybe well she had been here to help you with any questions but um maybe you're just

[5:36:11] Voice 9: we

[5:36:12] Voice 6: know what it is it's a party there we've got it's all it's in the policy we just approved

[5:36:16] Voice 6: pretty recently addressed.

[5:36:17] Voice 9: Yeah. Organized.

[5:36:20] Voice 6: Yes. I'll call the

[5:36:24] Voice 6: book then all those in favor that carries. Sorry, I didn't

[5:36:28] Voice 6: mean to run over Chloe, but we're ready. staff reports is a

[5:36:33] Voice 6: number of staff reports here.

[5:36:34] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I've got a really

[5:36:35] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): we expect to have an island stress Conservancy East

[5:36:40] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): executive committee and board meeting on july 28th and the months of may and june are when we do

[5:36:48] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): covenant and nature reserve monitoring and where possible the trustees join the monitoring teams

[5:36:54] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and we did that this year it was very enjoyable and the most important

[5:36:58] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thing that i wanted to

[5:36:59] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): mention is that the islands trust conservancy has a new communication lead and her name is

[5:37:05] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Erin Udall and she is Gabriela Island's Executive Director from the Chamber of Commerce was was

[5:37:13] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): because she started on July 6th super and we are

[5:37:16] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): so proud of her for that position she will serve

[5:37:20] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): us well thank you thank you very much there's a patient's report here

[5:37:24] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): is there any questions on

[5:37:26] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): applications well your expense report is here your adopted policies and standing resolutions

[5:37:41] Voice 11: So the work program, the active projects list

[5:37:44] Voice 6: is here, I assume we're still focused where

[5:37:46] Voice 6: we are.

[5:37:47] Voice 6: Future projects list, I think if we have time before the end of the term, although I'll

[5:37:55] Voice 6: send

[5:37:56] Voice 11: to you, Susan, I have a proposal for Salt Spring of piloting, you know, let's get

[5:38:02] Voice 11: radical and really change the future projects list and we may planning issues register that

[5:38:08] Voice 11: staff can put stuff on it too so that we can see everything that needs to be done not just

[5:38:14] Voice 11: work with political wins of the day work so yes i at least i think we owe the next um

[5:38:20] Voice 11: term a cleaned up list that we put our perspective to it so anyway yeah

[5:38:28] Voice 9: I don't know a lot about that, but I know some of this is based on all of the stuff

[5:38:35] Voice 9: is based on policy, but maybe something to raise it.

[5:38:39] Voice 6: Oh, no, the pilot for is something that's also mentioned in the book, right?

[5:38:43] Voice 6: Only that.

[5:38:43] Voice 6: Oh, yeah.

[5:38:45] Voice 9: Yes.

[5:38:46] Voice 6: No, they're

[5:38:47] Voice 6: not committing to applying as you've read this week.

[5:38:49] Voice 6: No worries.

[5:38:50] Voice 6: Yeah.

[5:38:51] Voice 6: That's coming to Trust Council in September.

[5:38:56] Voice 6: Okay, so we're at the closed meeting, so the next regular meeting is September 3rd, we'll

[5:39:02] Voice 6: be celebrating the community award for Brittany Banning, and the community stewardship award,

[5:39:09] Voice 6: and we're going to be going into closed meeting, so thank you everyone for attending today,

[5:39:15] Voice 6: and we'll try some report at the next meeting.

[5:39:18] Voice 6: So, yes,

[5:39:19] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): thank you sound representative hope for attending our meeting. So, wait, wait. All right, let's get

[5:39:25] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): this motion in accordance with the community charter for division three section 91 for the purpose of considering you don't have to rest.

[5:39:33] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): I have a lot of reports with the council considers that disclosure reasonably expected to harm the conduct of an investigation under or enforcement of an enactment.

[5:39:43] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): and let the reporter and staff attend the meeting.

[5:39:45] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Is there a second?

[5:39:46] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): Speaking of that,

[5:39:47] Unidentified speaker (uncertain): all those

[5:39:48] Voice 11: in favor?

[5:39:51] Voice 11: You guys can pause for a moment.

[5:39:52] Voice 11: We are.

[5:39:53] Voice 11: And breathe.