Manager of Bylaw Compliance and Enforcement

Staff, Islands Trust Council, Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee, Denman Island Local Trust Committee, Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee, Galiano Island Local Trust Committee, Gambier Island Local Trust Committee, Hornby Island Local Trust Committee, North Pender Island Local Trust Committee, Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee, Saturna Island Local Trust Committee, South Pender Island Local Trust Committee, Thetis Island Local Trust Committee. 4,848 lines across 63 meetings, 2021-01-28 to 2026-07-29. The longest three lines from each meeting are shown; the transcript page has every line, with its confidence mark, and the recording plays from any of them.

  1. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 29, 2026

    2026-07-29 · 11 lines

    • [1:07:45] “request for decision before you is for Denman Island, and it's a bylaw to amend their bylaw enforcement notification bylaw so that a $500 penalty can be added to their Bend schedule to have that penalty for failing to obtain a permit for any development permit area.”
    • [1:08:23] “I will add that Denman will become the fifth local trust area, the fifth local trust committee to amend its Bend by-law to permit the penalty for failing to obtain a permit in these development permit areas.”
    • [1:08:15] “The local trust committee requested it because of issues of work being done in development permit areas without the necessary permit.”

  2. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 29, 2026

    2026-05-29 · 24 lines

    • [0:36:46] “a completely new structure you've also lost your lawful non-conforming protection there are limits”
    • [0:34:50] “was referenced. So that was going to be part of the original investigation because the complaint”
    • [0:26:24] “i will contact the letter writer and to try to address her concerns and then proceed from there”

  3. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, May 14, 2026

    2026-05-14 · 54 lines

    • [3:15:59] “And we'll approach the housing groups to have discussions to try and ensure that people have access to housing and they're not evicted with nowhere to go.”
    • [3:10:46] “to adopt the policy as amended and there's also a recommendation that you rescind the different the”
    • [3:10:04] “on non-permitted dwellings does not apply to new construction or uses. Section 4.6 has been added”

  4. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, March 19, 2026

    2026-03-19 · 161 lines

    • [2:59:17] “So, Chair, if someone is on a property, they have a dwelling, and if their waste, any waste is not going, especially the sewage, is not going into an approved septic system, that is a contravention of the Salt Spring Island Land Use By-law.”
    • [2:48:41] “So, it's at the discretion of the local trust committee at how much notice you wish to give, or if you wish to just leave it with what, you know, you could remove this section, and then we would just follow trust council policy.”
    • [2:34:30] “Number five, you have things such as 5.3, where the officer will try and arrange a mutually agreeable time to arrange site inspection and provide one week's notice before attending the property.”

  5. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 26, 2026

    2026-02-26 · 61 lines

    • [0:52:11] “We're also going, I have gone through all of the listings for the files that we do have to determine how many have resident owners.”
    • [0:52:28] “However, there's still a couple of dozen where they do not have met the terms of the principal residency.”
    • [0:58:20] “confident they're very on top of uh the issue and um it'll just be matter of working through all the”

  6. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 6, 2026

    2026-02-06 · 51 lines

    • [4:27:16] “all the templates because in the end they all have to be reviewed because they're not ready to go yet”
    • [4:26:02] “that's the only reason why we opened the file is because we were positive that they were operating”
    • [4:12:04] “comments to expand on what uh stefan has stated uh this is quite comprehensive um it is providing”

  7. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 3, 2026

    2026-02-03 · 132 lines

    • [2:05:04] “But the local trust committee could certainly look at adopting policies that might defer enforcement regarding these issues in the short term and provide other policy, adopt policies that might address concerns about, say, vexatious complaints as other local trust committees have done.”
    • [2:01:18] “They're going to address issues of vexatious or retaliatory complaints, I believe, in a very thorough way to alleviate the concerns that are always there that people are being targeted by anonymous individuals.”
    • [2:04:49] “However, I don't know that the Howling Wolf operation is a minor farm stand, which may not comply with the land use bylaw.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, January 29, 2026

    2026-01-29 · 128 lines

    • [3:44:44] “Those matters are either priority or urgent depending on the circumstances, and a delay in a site inspection could jeopardize enforcement efforts or public safety.”
    • [3:44:33] “There would be exceptions for short-term vacation rentals under certain criteria, health and safety issues, issued TUPs, and work causing environmental damage.”
    • [3:39:56] “We're trying to adopt best policies here, ensure that it supplements the Trust Council's bylaw enforcement policy 551, which is currently under review.”

  9. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 27, 2026

    2026-01-27 · 21 lines

    • [2:19:05] “But it can be interpreted that as this permitted use, almost like a principal permitted use of these two travel trailers or accessory buildings are allowed, that it is not unreasonable to have a power shed or septic installed just to accommodate that use.”
    • [2:18:40] “owners take advantage of it and uh i would say there's been no ongoing problems or concerns”
    • [2:18:33] “and uh for the most part that works quite well it's a reasonable regulation and uh property”

  10. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, October 3, 2025

    2025-10-03 · 227 lines

    • [3:11:33] “The recommendation before you is that you adopt this as drafted and for you also to rescind two standing resolutions which are now incorporated within the document.”
    • [3:29:50] “within their bylaws whether it's a municipal ticket information or a bend bylaw it'll explicitly state”
    • [3:27:55] “tickets but i don't you can what other jurisdictions as most municipalities the police officers could”

  11. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 9, 2025

    2025-09-09 · 31 lines

    • [1:41:44] “Chair. What is before you is the amendments for the Gabriel Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw 116, the Bylaw Enforcement Notification Bylaw.”
    • [1:41:58] “We've done a number of amendments to that bylaw and as well as updated the contravention schedules for the Bend Bylaw.”
    • [1:42:27] “trust committee it has gone to executive committee for approval and they have approved it and now the”

  12. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 2, 2025

    2025-09-02 · 23 lines

    • [1:12:25] “Through the chair, yes, we have received, it actually may be several complaints about structures being used for residential use off Thetis and as well as some of the accessory islands.”
    • [1:10:36] “He did state that he may not place any structures like mooring buoys or security nets out in the license of occupation zone.”
    • [1:10:54] “government authority um there's a number of files that have been opened recently that involve the”

  13. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 25, 2025

    2025-07-25 · 81 lines

    • [1:07:06] “And then if there's a decision, yes, on this file, we wish to proceed with enforcement, then the bylaw officer then proceeds with issuing warning notices and actual bylaw violation notices with a penalty if necessary.”
    • [1:06:55] “When bylaw notices are used, there's a report to the LTC on Maine and then they decide, okay, do we wish to proceed with enforcement?”
    • [1:10:28] “that if you pass a resolution we can present that policy and so that you can give direction to staff”

  14. Saturna Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, July 24, 2025

    2025-07-24 · 162 lines

    • [2:46:12] “So the proposed LTC enforcement policy would address certain issues such as the notice of site inspections, deferred enforcement, time to comply, frivolous or vexatious complaints, which has not been present in other policies before, a definition of minor contraventions, and the use of discretion.”
    • [2:45:53] “This would more clearly support the LTC using policy to establish what it considers reasonable times, notification periods, and what exceptions there should be to the notification period, and to revise the policy when warranted.”
    • [2:44:00] “This bylaw, like the others, simply repeats language from the Local Government Act, which states that bylaw officers can, at reasonable times, inspect private property.”

  15. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee regular meeting, July 18, 2025

    2025-07-18 · 72 lines

    • [1:10:50] “So I'm actually not 100% certain what the question is, but when we're doing an investigation, we can collect any relevant evidence, and that can be evidence from the complainant, it can be evidence from aerial photos, it's actually very broad.”
    • [0:44:30] “We don't have a proper written complaint to open a file, but if the bylaw officer can go there and see something that is of concern, environmental, health and safety, then based on Trust Council policies, we can still open a file.”
    • [0:44:44] “So yesterday I went to that property, viewed it from the road, and there's nothing that I could see right now that's going to allow me to open a file based on Trust Council policies without a written complaint.”

  16. Denman Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, July 15, 2025

    2025-07-15 · 17 lines

    • [1:05:47] “this property we have our own file we've done our own investigation based on the complaints received”
    • [1:06:24] “an application. But as far as actual land use, we're not aware of any unlawful land use at this”
    • [1:07:08] “they're where they're at see if they can provide any response or input thank you thank you very”

  17. Galiano Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 11, 2025

    2025-07-11 · 84 lines

    • [0:36:57] “That's one reason why the Local Trust Committee is considering what regulations need to apply to Wise Island, as opposed to having those on Wise Island comply with all of the regulations that those on Galliano, a much larger island, must comply with.”
    • [0:02:08] “Good morning, Chair, Board. My name is Warren Dingman. I'm the Manager of Compliance and Enforcement for Islands Trust, and I am familiar with this file.”
    • [0:38:49] “I mean, this, I don't know how many, you know, I don't want to make this more complicated, but we're dealing with a deck, an attachment to a house.”

  18. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, July 10, 2025

    2025-07-10 · 64 lines

    • [1:21:31] “So there were files opened under trust council policy 551 to investigate the concerns over whether or not there was a principal residency and to really gain more information about the tents and campgrounds that are being advertised on Airbnb.”
    • [1:19:48] “So that's one of the first criteria that is being used to try and ensure that, in fact, there is a principal residency on the property.”
    • [1:19:39] “They did that in March and starting in November, the Salt Spring Island will be fully opted into that principal residency requirement.”

  19. Hornby Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 4, 2025

    2025-07-04 · 97 lines

    • [1:44:54] “As it states there, there's a complaint against, you know, unless the following conditions apply, complaints from immediate neighbors, referral from agencies regarding health and safety, or if there's more than one unlawful dwelling on a lot.”
    • [1:45:34] “But this policy could be amended before it's adopted, and you could add a 4.3 referencing deferment enforcement for farm stands, if that's what the local trust committee would like to proceed on.”
    • [1:45:50] “You have within the inspection section a requirement to give those subject to enforcement 24 hours notice unless there's issues of health and safety or irreversible damage to the environment.”

  20. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 24, 2025

    2025-06-24 · 113 lines

    • [1:19:52] “They may document these other contraventions, but you could certainly, within your own policy, say you're going to have a narrow focus when we're doing our enforcement work.”
    • [1:20:05] “That's correct. You don't. I could draft up some language for a future meeting that could address that concern.”
    • [1:16:18] “were no conflicts so everything that this adopts uh the local sorry the trust council policy already”

  21. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 30, 2025

    2025-05-30 · 42 lines

    • [1:01:46] “And so that was one problem with this particular lot, with a well being right at the front of the property, that any hazardous materials or storage of septic wouldn't be permitted because of the presence of the well.”
    • [1:01:31] “So the last time I looked at this issue myself, there was concern about a nearby well and the storage of any septic trucks or any type of material within so many meters of the well.”
    • [1:02:20] “other issues aside you need a development variance permit to have the contractor in its yard in its”

  22. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee special meeting, May 9, 2025

    2025-05-09 · 48 lines

    • [2:01:59] “This is an administrative bylaw process that I don't see the benefit here, and I believe it should just be removed.”
    • [2:04:32] “letter itself some of this information is going to be communicated and the rest of the information”
    • [2:04:43] “comprehensive listing of all the information that they're going to receive as say one part whereas”

  23. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 24, 2025

    2025-04-24 · 124 lines

    • [0:32:52] “Um, I will note that, uh, the local trust committee does have the option each, each year to opt in to the provincial principal residency requirement, which you would need to do before March 31st of each year and notify the province that you wish to opt in.”
    • [2:41:25] “Where if a person can be declared a vexatious complainant in BC Supreme Court, if they file multiple frivolous lawsuits and a BC Supreme Court judge deems them to be vexatious, that's the official designation within the legal system.”
    • [2:41:44] “I don't know how often it happens, but if that happens, then yes, a person can no longer file BC Supreme Court claims or petitions without the permission of the court.”

  24. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 1, 2025

    2025-04-01 · 38 lines

    • [1:31:50] “Chair, if the Local Trust Committee adopts the motion to begin bylaw enforcement, we would contact the leaseholder right away to begin a conversation so that it would be communicated to them, our position, that the use, if it begins, would be unlawful.”
    • [1:16:49] “And then, yes, it would go before a judge for judicial review, and then the judge would decide the law on whether or not we are able to enforce the bylaw.”
    • [1:16:41] “And then the leaseholder could seek judicial review, as other disputants have done when they've lost adjudication.”

  25. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, March 25, 2025

    2025-03-25 · 51 lines

    • [4:13:38] “But of course, the LTC does have the option of requesting any changes, amendments in consideration of the fine, the penalty amounts, or in the end, if you do want to not proceed or, yeah, I guess if you do not want to proceed with having a fail to obtain permit in the development permit areas, you could amend that.”
    • [4:09:42] “And to go through the attachment one and the statistical report regarding development permit areas or the files for any possible contravention of development permit areas, I provided two tables, one with the currently the only open file where we believe that a DPA is required.”
    • [4:17:23] “You know, I don't think everything rises to the level of having to go to a notice of claim in BC Supreme Court, but the province will not support us or change legislation that will allow us to prosecute some of these offenders in provincial court.”

  26. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee regular meeting, February 7, 2025

    2025-02-07 · 184 lines

    • [5:02:51] “It's about a very small group of individuals who, what other local governments do, for example, I think of the CRD and one particular individual within the local trust area who they years ago said, we will no longer communicate with you.”
    • [4:51:18] “And within those four documents that will set out what is within the authority of the local trust committees, there are discretionary policies that they can adopt and give a direction to staff.”
    • [4:12:28] “Chair, if there's no bylaw contravention for a land use bylaw or there's no development permit guideline contravention for an OCP, then it's a private matter and we're out of it and we leave”

  27. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 4, 2025

    2025-02-04 · 37 lines

    • [1:09:02] “Yes, Chair, we could do that, and it would be good if there was a resolution requesting that message to subscribers.”
    • [1:07:31] “No, the cleanup's done, but the cost recovery phase, if you want to call it that, needs to be completed.”
    • [1:05:14] “should be very straightforward as we have completed the work on the peg property there was a public”

  28. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, January 31, 2025

    2025-01-31 · 49 lines

    • [0:31:27] “But even in the latest article that was in the newspaper about establishing the registry, there was reference to TUPs being, you know, they would consider whether or not there was a TUP for the operation, as opposed to just for most of the jurisdiction, there's going to be a business license, but there's no business licenses for Islands Trust or on the Gulf Islands.”
    • [0:29:03] “So the land use bylaw applies and we're doing our enforcement, but the province would not be doing any enforcement on their part if people are not renting out just their principal residence or the lawful sweeter cottage on Airbnb.”
    • [2:15:05] “And then if it was ever upheld at adjudication, the property owner could ask for judicial review, and then you get another decision from a judge regarding jurisdiction.”

  29. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 28, 2025

    2025-01-28 · 89 lines

    • [1:10:03] “non-permitted land use within all the zones here's your penalty schedule now the reason you but with”
    • [1:00:38] “within a development permit area without a permit, we can assess the penalty as opposed to trying to”
    • [1:00:00] “this process already have these contraventions um the sunshine coast regional district they already”

  30. Islands Trust Council special meeting, January 20, 2025

    2025-01-20 · 135 lines

    • [1:36:32] “So, Chair, Trustee Borthwick brought up the point of how do we resolve these issues of, okay, here's the technical legal interpretation of what's going on on a property.”
    • [1:36:46] “And really, the way that it's been resolved over the years is by passing Global Trust Committee resolutions saying, well, we will defer enforcement on these issues.”
    • [2:32:47] “And the health and safety issue would be people put them out too far off their property, out in the side of the road where they become a hazard.”

  31. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, January 16, 2025

    2025-01-16 · 48 lines

    • [1:06:44] “And then the local trust committee would decide whether or not they want to pursue this matter, whether they want to put it into abeyance, or whether they just wish at this time to close the file.”
    • [1:05:11] “So, Chair, at this point, I think the Local Trust Committee should pass a resolution requesting a staff report regarding this property and any bylaw contraventions.”
    • [1:06:32] “And within that report, you'll have a summary of everything that is in the bylaw enforcement file,”

  32. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, December 12, 2024

    2024-12-12 · 51 lines

    • [1:56:27] “But for the most part, if it's simply someone hasn't obtained their building permit from the Capital Regional District,”
    • [1:56:38] “We would have no authority to go in and say, well, you can't be building this house without a building permit.”
    • [1:51:43] “concerns about health and safety lack of proper sewage disposal excessive number of travel trailers”

  33. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, November 8, 2024

    2024-11-08 · 119 lines

    • [2:01:49] “So from whatever means, if someone walks in off the street and they say they know that there is a hearing today, we must be able to accommodate them in our boardroom.”
    • [1:49:29] “but it's the law under the local government bylaw notice enforcement act so the original purpose was”
    • [1:21:53] “communications and especially a lot of work uh by morgana especially with this uh chart that you see”

  34. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 7, 2024

    2024-11-07 · 118 lines

    • [0:18:20] “So the concerns of the community have been incorporated in the document, tried to clarify language, especially around definitions, around vexatious complaints, and just to provide the local trust committee with a means to give direction to staff on what their priorities are and how you wish to have enforcement proceed, ensure that those priorities are established.”
    • [0:21:02] “We can do reporting back to the LTC, and they can, you know, make another decision further down the line as to whether or not the 25-year date or any other date is appropriate not to look at really, basically really old structures, structures that have been legitimately on properties for decades, and why are we pursuing them if they're that old?”
    • [0:17:59] “So enforcement comes to looking at the newer structures and not going back 50 years and looking at these structures that have been on property, on properties on these islands for decades with no complaints of any kind.”

  35. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, November 7, 2024

    2024-11-07 · 191 lines

    • [2:51:38] “So the proposed policy provides some definitions, provides, states what the priorities are for the local trust committee, and your previous standing resolutions have been incorporated in your priorities.”
    • [3:04:18] “For those individual respondents who have concerns about why isn't my file closed, they have staff to contact, they can contact the file officer, they can contact myself, and I can review it.”
    • [2:51:13] “Gabriel Island adopted their policy this morning, and it will be presented to a couple of other local trust committees that have expressed interest in moving forward with the policy document.”

  36. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 25, 2024

    2024-09-25 · 46 lines

    • [8:04:09] “council policies you can adopt vexatious complaint policies and at the ltc level they can also adopt”
    • [8:00:07] “complaints we can actually process it must be in writing it must be a per from a person so it can't”
    • [8:00:20] “well detailed so what we have set up is a process where we have a report of concern on the website”

  37. Hornby Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 13, 2024

    2024-09-13 · 62 lines

    • [1:36:08] “An enforcement file, there was a complaint regarding some type of farm stand or produce stand, and in further discussions with one of the trustees, I was asked to look into it a little bit further, and going through your land use bylaw, I don't see any regulations that would say permit farm or produce stands.”
    • [1:37:14] “like any other structure unless of course there's an exemption in the land use bylaw let's say that”
    • [1:38:55] “particular file was closed because of that decision but moving forward it's something for the ltc”

  38. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 4, 2024

    2024-09-04 · 216 lines

    • [0:23:30] “And for whatever reasons, what has been lacking within the policies, what the ombuds person identified was, unlike every other jurisdiction in BC that has a bylaw enforcement policy, Islands Trust never developed a policy to deal with vexatious, frivolous, or repeat complaints.”
    • [2:04:36] “Section 8 here, you can state that outright, that Lowell Trust Committee should adopt policies on when to give notice to comply with the Ombudsperson recommendations, which is one of their main recommendations and has been so for years.”
    • [4:30:38] “If we adopt some of the proposed policies, then I'm in a better position to say, okay, one, I can't open up 50 files for an island with a population of, say, less than 200 people at this time.”

  39. Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, August 8, 2024

    2024-08-08 · 69 lines

    • [1:30:06] “So what needs to happen at the Trust Council level is whether or not there's going to be any possible changes to who initiates investigations and how and why.”
    • [1:31:04] “So I think that is now an important step, that the Regional Planning Committee review the changes to the draft policies.”
    • [1:31:22] “RPC needs to review it, and then Trust Council needs to have their input on these proposed changes and the path forward.”

  40. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 26, 2024

    2024-07-26 · 125 lines

    • [1:54:39] “And so what I've pointed out in the report is that some of the things that Trust Council policy doesn't contain are, you know, references to notice, when to provide notice of site inspections, time to comply, frivolous or vexatious complaints, definition of minor contraventions where local trust committees really may not want enforcement on, small structures or whatever, and the use of discretion by staff.”
    • [1:51:37] “And I'll reference now that ECE has requested that any further consideration or final adoption of these policies take place after the Regional Planning Committee has had an opportunity to review the template and possible approval by Trust Council as part of the By-law Enforcement Review Project.”
    • [1:53:42] “But I think it's just a better way of doing business as far as defining what the roles of bylaw officers are going to be and how we conduct business and to address the concerns that, in some case, both elected officials and residents have about how the whole enforcement process takes place.”

  41. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, July 18, 2024

    2024-07-18 · 36 lines

    • [2:49:27] “But it would be a good process for all of the local trust committees to have their set to buy on compliance and enforcement policies policies in one document all their standing resolutions around enforcement in one document, and then it'll be easy to access for staff and for property owners on the island.”
    • [0:31:43] “be done, but it has to be done, but it has to be done, but it has to be done, but it has to be done, but it has to be done.”
    • [2:49:07] “Chair, no, I believe Trustee Middleton has summarized it really well.”

  42. Hornby Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 14, 2024

    2024-06-14 · 86 lines

    • [2:00:00] “So, as you've authorized proactive enforcement, someone can give me, I don't even need the name, they can give me a phone call, right, and say I'm concerned about this address.”
    • [1:51:45] “The main one, I've simplified the schedules and I've also added a penalty for failure to obtain a development permit.”
    • [0:31:09] “issued tickets for and we will continue to do that as long as the proactive enforcement is authorized”

  43. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 4, 2024

    2024-06-04 · 103 lines

    • [1:53:26] “And working from that resolution, I thought it would be appropriate to forward to the Local Trust Committee, one, not just to explain what happened on that day in January 30th, 2024, regarding some site visits, but also to put forward a proposal for a bylaw compliance and enforcement policy for review by the Local Trust Committee.”
    • [1:54:01] “is by standing resolution they establish policies for their local trust areas my proposal is that we”
    • [2:00:00] “have some input on and make some revisions to that current policy i'd like to note that because you”

  44. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, May 28, 2024

    2024-05-28 · 44 lines

    • [1:13:46] “absolutely. I can provide, if the LTC wants to proceed with this, I'll provide a full report and its implication for the Associated Islands By-law Gambier and how we can proceed forward.”
    • [1:13:56] “And it would also have a proposed, you can review first the proposed by-law changes, the administrative by-law changes to the Bend by-law and what the schedule would look like.”
    • [1:14:57] “enforcement notification bylaw because of the new setting and use permit bylaws that were introduced”

  45. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 11, 2024

    2024-04-11 · 80 lines

    • [3:07:22] “don't believe so. As long as they're going to pursue that DVP process, they're going to be offered a compliance agreement that would give them a deadline to complete that DVP process, that application process, and that would put on hold any enforcement until the application is dealt with.”
    • [0:07:46] “So for this property, the land use bylaw does not permit the use of that structure or that building as a dwelling.”
    • [0:09:44] “You do have a very detailed legal opinion on this, and you should review that before taking any further action.”

  46. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 5, 2024

    2024-04-05 · 113 lines

    • [3:55:17] “And you should do the three readings today. And then I should prepare the policy document that would include like your standing resolutions on housing, all of this, so that you would know you would have that document and that public facing information on here's the process that's followed explicit in the North Pender Island policies.”
    • [4:04:24] “Before, yes, you do the readings and finally adopt a band bylaw. You do need one. And in the end, you should adopt what is currently proposed, but you can do what Denman does and what Maine now does is say, okay, before, once investigations are completed, we want to get a report.”
    • [3:55:02] “So, I know you have concerns, but if we want to move this forward, and especially if you want at some point here to be able to issue a penalty for people to failing to get development permits, you're going to move the process forward.”

  47. Galiano Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 13, 2024

    2024-02-13 · 11 lines

    • [0:29:33] “not complying to comply with the land use bylaw as the temporary use permit has expired so i believe”
    • [0:29:40] “we followed up on them all if there's anyone that has a concern as planners talked to stated earlier”
    • [0:29:19] “expired uh i believe we have followed up on all of them uh we did create a list and track when”

  48. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 13, 2024

    2024-02-13 · 4 lines

    • [2:12:51] “be with us momentarily thank you may have just been on the telephone”
    • [1:16:51] “So for some reason, my video stopped, but I am here.”
    • [2:12:50] “think Planner Chadwick should”

  49. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 26, 2024

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    • [2:26:00] “But it's a little more complicated that because it's a contravention or offense of the Local Government Act and not actually a local government bylaw.”
    • [2:04:06] “So, I would say here's part of the message from Crown Council is, well, here's what I believe what their message is from what they stated.”
    • [2:04:20] “Their reply is that Islands Trust pursue the permit process and forget about trying to prosecute these folks.”

  50. Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 18, 2024

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    • [2:02:46] “And I've also noted here that when we call these files, that even though these files involve structures on private property, the majority of the time and not actually on the foreshore, we use the foreshore reference in our filing system to reflect and identify those contraventions that are in that entire sensitive ecosystem area, the actual land below the natural boundary of the sea and just above it.”
    • [2:02:13] “Sure. So this report summarized the current shoreline structures and setback contraventions and legal action involving such structures.”
    • [2:04:42] “trust committee um and in the final recommendation I note that um I don't I don't see any trends here”

  51. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, December 14, 2023

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    • [2:30:00] “So, but that's, you know, that it's up to the LTC now whether or not they want to consider a resolution regarding the policy options for violent enforcement compliance on unlawful uses.”
    • [1:50:23] “I've noted that we have greatly reduced the number of open short term vacation rental files report says 40 plus there may be now 50 plus files that have been closed.”
    • [1:50:42] “We've done an extensive amount of work over the past two years to investigate you know hundreds of advertisements on Salt Spring.”

  52. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 14, 2023

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    • [2:19:53] “So what I've specifically referenced in the staff report is the Denman land use bylaw does not list specific prohibitions, say, in the dumping of waste materials on land or water.”
    • [2:20:04] “And so that's my intention of using that section or any other uses that are considered harmful to the natural environment or pose a risk to health and safety.”
    • [2:26:45] “If you're going to change it to, okay, you don't want people to use land to store hazardous waste, I think that has a completely different meaning.”

  53. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 7, 2023

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    • [0:29:26] “If we can't deliver the sentencing order to him, there will be some delays and then the local trust committee will have to look at its further options on what it wishes to do.”
    • [0:28:15] “I can, I can do the brief. It's really, I can give you the update on the Davis Pegg property. Mr. Pegg was found in contempt of court in September.”
    • [0:29:49] “We can't go over them here, but there are other options, other legal options that the LTC can pursue in order to”

  54. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, October 3, 2023

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    • [2:55:46] “It has been stressed through the Auburn's person report when we were doing the review is that they really stress that notification is key and that has been stressed with bylaw staff.”
    • [3:01:31] “And if other enforcement agencies say, we need you to accompany us on this day, for whatever reasons, and usually it's safety, we're going to go with them.”
    • [2:56:00] “And so once we do our investigation, you have a LTC policy in place that says there will be no enforcement on unlawful dwellings.”

  55. Galiano Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 12, 2023

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    • [0:58:46] “bylaw 289 and so now the bylaw is back in front of the local trust committee uh for final adoption”
    • [0:58:39] “or uh directed staff to afford it to the executive committee july 12th the exec committee approved”
    • [0:57:54] “we're good um this report uh is regarding the uh amendments that have been uh approved and read”

  56. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, August 29, 2023

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    • [1:10:29] “The report summary is that the recommendation is that enforcement continue whether unlawful land uses on property subject to complaint, even if an application has been made, unless the use ceases or an applicant has received permission from the local trust committee to continue operating.”
    • [1:10:07] “The background on this is in the June Local Trust Committee meeting, there was a resolution adopted requesting that such a policy be brought before you, and with some of the specifics being around stop work options to come back at this future meeting.”
    • [1:15:50] “contraventions that's something we're still trying to work on with the provincial government so that”

  57. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 25, 2023

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    • [1:21:25] “quite professional. Moving on we have a follow-up action list and I see we have a planner who has”
    • [4:55:49] “forward we have the existing bylaw that was sent to executive that has been sent back do we wish”
    • [1:24:19] “executive based on our thumbs up is supposed to be circling all trustees i believe maybe today”

  58. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 6, 2023

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    • [3:06:33] “last year so after six months there were no uh bylaw violation notices that could be issued for”
    • [3:06:26] “and really the main this was originally done as the setting and use permit bylaw was rescinded”
    • [3:06:40] “that setting and use permit bylaw and needed to add a new schedule referencing the new setting”

  59. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 28, 2023

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    • [0:20:22] “I mean, there are some issues in other parts of the Gulf Islands with, I think, with what the freighters are doing, and that has to do primarily with the planning authority that the port has.”
    • [0:20:39] “So just like Islands Trust creates a plan and zones where they can engage in certain activities, there are some activities in the southern Gulf Islands, which I would say are of concern.”
    • [0:19:05] “The actual anchorage sites from the evidence that I have are actually outside of the current marine or water zones under any land use bylaw.”

  60. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 27, 2022

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    • [1:30:10] “And actually, before I state that, as regards to your motion, if your report is you really want an extent of how many people are living in unlawful or non-permitted housing situations on North Pender, that would require an extensive project, and you would need to get funding for that extensive project to find out the true scale of how many people are in such housing circumstances.”
    • [1:30:36] “Now, the point I would like to make about how bylaw enforcement and bylaw enforcement officers have been dealing with housing issues just in general in the Gulf Islands, but also on North Pender, we're very sensitive to the issue.”
    • [1:19:54] “And there are certain permits that people may need for them that the Capital Regional District is not going to give them permits for septic connections or other things that they need permits for.”

  61. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 29, 2021

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    • [0:41:06] “I provided the definition and regulations concerning the bed and breakfast use that is permitted under the land use bylaw and tried to provide as much explanation as possible, you know, just to provide clarification for them on how they may conduct a bed and breakfast operation on the property.”
    • [0:48:46] “On other islands like Saturna and Galliano, they have specific, really by definition, specific definitions for temporary or temporary sawmilling to allow the portable sawmill use to mill your own timber on the lot for construction purposes.”
    • [0:41:28] “One of the issues with this particular file is that there are the multiple websites advertising the business, and it does give the impression that there's multiple short-term vacation rental operations on this property.”

  62. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, March 5, 2021

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    • [3:24:31] “And BHA does not want to get involved with, or the one person has said they can't, they can only get involved if it is connected to a, it's an actual septic system connected to a building.”
    • [3:24:45] “only other way they can get involved is if there is a hazard on the, on the ground, something that they can see, they want to see waste on the ground.”
    • [3:25:58] “We're going through this right now with a property on Salt Spring where the neighbor complains of the gray water coming onto her property.”

  63. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 28, 2021

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    • [3:31:16] “It's not that we can't try, but I'm skeptical that they would forward that private information to us.”
    • [3:30:41] “otherwise some other individual has to document this activity and unfortunately bylaw staff aren't”
    • [3:13:31] “had previously on enforcement if someone goes to their pender island residence and spends half the”