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Staff, Islands Trust Conservancy Board, Islands Trust Council, Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee, North Pender Island Local Trust Committee, Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee, South Pender Island Local Trust Committee. 1,666 lines across 13 meetings, 2021-04-29 to 2024-11-29. 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. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, November 29, 2024

    2024-11-29 · 155 lines

    • [1:46:02] “notices were circulated to the surrounding property owners and residents and at this time staff received or sorry at the time of writing staff received two submissions one letter expresses objections from the neighbor that is actually two properties to the east and the other one states no objection but did express some concerns about lighting and sorry one other aspect which the”
    • [1:44:53] “And it was only when the supplied plans, which come as a kit, were submitted to the CRD building inspection for their building permit that it was identified that the height and actually the pitch of the roof of this model was altered by the manufacturer in the last few years.”
    • [1:40:50] “There have been no reported adverse effects on neighboring properties or complaints, and the renewal would be valid for three years, upon which time an application for a new TUP or rezoning would be required to continue the use.”

  2. Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, October 7, 2024

    2024-10-07 · 48 lines

    • [0:56:38] “And then this is my experience, and I've read a fair amount of reports by professional engineers and by biologists, and I'll get to that point soon, that there's a huge consequence of building seawalls, particularly on neighboring properties, because you change the geomorphology of the beach, and it's a knock-on effect, effectively.”
    • [0:56:19] “In the staff report, I'm pointing to objective policies that are in your OCP, and those clearly state that in a situation where it was a new application that you would inform yourselves with a professional.”
    • [0:55:31] “And as this work was done without permits, it was the only way that the surveyor could determine the natural boundary or the current one is to put it where the boulder seawall had been placed recently.”

  3. Islands Trust Conservancy Board community information meeting, July 29, 2024

    2024-07-29 · 66 lines

    • [0:20:00] “So the application is a result of CRD action and a retroactive preliminary plan review, which revealed that the existing 15 and a half square meter accessory building with a 17 square meter attached deck was cited in error when it was moved last year.”
    • [0:23:23] “And it seems like nobody identified that up in the very northeast corner, there's a small 1.75 meter road frontage, which technically or under the definition of a front lot line makes it the front lot line, in fact.”
    • [0:28:20] “Apparently, according to CityView, the proprietor or the developer, it's not something that we can change, which I think if we could, we would.”

  4. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 18, 2024

    2024-06-18 · 164 lines

    • [1:15:23] “just to that point, so what happens now is that the next step, in the circumstance that this was approved, the next step would be for the Greens to submit a preliminary plan review to the Islands Trust, which is required for a CRD building permit, and we would review the plans and ensure that they're consistent with our bylaws, or in this case, the variance, the Board of Variance order that was granted.”
    • [1:18:26] “Essentially, yeah, you're giving them, you're reducing, I'm sorry, making it more lenient, which if you were to make it stricter and say, no, we're only going to give you a variance to, let's say, you know, four feet versus five, then that wouldn't require a renotification because the expectation is still with the neighbors that it would be at five feet.”
    • [0:00:24] “And I would like to introduce our three Board of Variants members. We have Andrew McLean, Bert Hull, and John Spalding. And other than myself, we also have Carly Bilney as our minute taker. And I'd also like to welcome our applicants, who are Audrey and David Green.”

  5. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, June 14, 2024

    2024-06-14 · 103 lines

    • [0:11:02] “It entails the construction of a 565 square meter in area wood frame building with two wings that includes a retail space and a receiving, sorting, and warehousing area, the vehicle and pedestrian access via the driftwood mall to the north, parking for cars and bicycles, landscape of the development area of the property, the protection of an identified culturally modified tree,”
    • [0:03:24] “and that would be varied to a maximum of 6.7 meters to permit the construction of an accessory building,”
    • [0:10:30] “the property was donated by the driftwood mall and it's located on the newly zoned and subdivided lot”

  6. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 23, 2024

    2024-02-23 · 258 lines

    • [0:49:13] “So, yeah, but to the point of whether the rezoning would be successful or not, of course, that's, that's completely contingent upon all of the inputs that come with the rezoning. And, you know, again, it's, there's a lot of what ifs with that. And it does sound like legitimately, maybe that's not the law, you know, this property may not be in with this family for long term. And that's where TUP is very suitable.”
    • [0:07:26] “Okay, thank you. So this is for 4753 Boson Way. And the application is for the renewal of a temporary use permit for short term vacation rental within a 26 meter squared accessory building, and the renewal allow for the STD use to continue in compliance with the land use bylaw.”
    • [1:08:06] “Thanks, Chairman Maud. So this is, I'm not muted. Okay, sorry. This is a development permit application to provide measures for the protection of sensitive ecosystem and construction management for a proposed dwelling within development permit area seven, which is Raptor Ness.”

  7. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 17, 2022

    2022-05-17 · 46 lines

    • [2:52:24] “So staff's recommendation is that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee approve issuance of the development permit, and that is supported as the objectives and specific guidelines of the DPA have been met.”
    • [2:52:10] “Attachment 2 on page 156 of the agenda reviews the DPA guidelines and staff considers that the proposed development and a proposed development permit as drafted are consistent with all the guidelines.”
    • [2:49:40] “Mayor Mrakas, Just a bit of history, this is the first salt spring island local trust committee meeting i've been in in 23 years so there you go.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 2, 2022

    2022-05-02 · 56 lines

    • [1:13:30] “So the rationale to waive the requirement to provide commercial unloading bay is also reasonable, given that there is a suitable alternative of using the front road right away, which is substantial, and given the inability to access and maneuver to the rear of the building with medium to large commercial vehicles.”
    • [1:12:40] “And those include non-conforming portions of the existing principal and accessory buildings, the addition of a proposed deck stairs to the front of the principal building, the proposed siting setbacks for parking spaces, and for the waiving of the requirement to provide an off-street commercial unloading space.”
    • [1:12:25] “Mayor Mrakas, The proposal is consistent with the dpa guidelines for the development variance permit itself, that is to consider citing variances which are shown on figure three or page 50 of the agenda.”

  9. Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 7, 2022

    2022-04-07 · 115 lines

    • [0:51:55] “So staff anticipates that the proposed variance will have little or no impact on neighboring properties, and the potential risk or damage from a flood incident on the specific development is a low impact, noting, and I would note also that the dwelling itself has been shifted from its original proposed location back on the property on higher topography in order that that meets the regulation and doesn't require variance.”
    • [0:49:03] “the removal of trees would be limited to 10 trees and the applicant reports that they did have an arborist assess the property and that person indicated that the trees were that were slated to be removed were showing signs of drought stress and that locating them too close to the proposed dwelling would pose a danger.”
    • [0:51:32] “The proposed siting is distant from the DPA and on the property where the, sorry, on the property where the topography limits the ability to both bury the infrastructure while at the same time complying with the regulation.”

  10. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, February 28, 2022

    2022-02-28 · 27 lines

    • [0:33:31] “and the dvp application is to comply with the land use bylaw to meet the to permit the completion of”
    • [0:34:01] “roots of other mature trees and additionally they report that a building has been put in that place”
    • [0:33:20] “thanks um chair rogers um so this is uh the madbp 2021.8 which is for uh norman quail 700 cv drive”

  11. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 4, 2021

    2021-12-04 · 286 lines

    • [1:21:45] “And with that expectations are that development and uses will be consistent with those permitted in the land use bylaw and further that the continued use places the business itself and an economic advantage over similar businesses that are located on appropriately zoned lands or with approved permits and the associated costs that come with that.”
    • [1:25:01] “So the rationale for that is that the permit has been drafted with the amendments and a two-year time window, and that will be sufficient time for the relocation of the business and ensure that it does not have an unreasonable impact.”
    • [1:20:42] “They're summarized as being primarily visual, particularly the given form and character of shipping containers themselves, the increased traffic in a residential area, and the noise and nuisance from unregulated access.”

  12. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, October 25, 2021

    2021-10-25 · 162 lines

    • [0:04:25] “So, as I said, Cameron Thorne, the applicant, is with us. And this is an application for 9882 Castle Road. And the purpose of the appeal is to vary the siting and size provisions for the Rural Residential 2 Zone of the South Pender Land Use By-law, and specifically Article 5.16, sorry, Bracket 6, Bracket A, which states the minimum setback for any building or structure.”
    • [0:08:41] “And I'll note that the applicant, the Board of Variants can vary certain zoning provisions where the applicant can adequately demonstrate to the satisfaction of the board that the compliance with the bylaw provisions would cause the applicant undue harm.”
    • [0:19:50] “may be make it just a bit easier. Presumably, Shannon, you can see it as well, or can you see that motion in the chat?”

  13. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 29, 2021

    2021-04-29 · 180 lines

    • [2:34:04] “There's no, we haven't had new ones come up with the exception of a new renewal for Hepburn in this area. So what you're looking at is what's been there for at least three years. So, and noting that we have not had any bylaw complaints from any of these in the last three years.”
    • [1:44:54] “And I had a conversation with Keith and Keith has provided an email which is attached to the memo which basically straightforwardly says that the proposed option to alter the structure by reducing its size is more preferable to moving it, which would be more”
    • [2:27:59] “there have been no complaints about the stvr since it was issued in 2018 the guest capacity is modest”