Trustee Evans

Trustee, Islands Trust Conservancy Board, Islands Trust Council, South Pender Island Local Trust Committee. 5,950 lines across 16 meetings, 2023-02-03 to 2026-08-28. 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. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, August 28, 2026

    2026-08-28 · 643 lines

    • [2:40:52] “I move that South Pender LTC request staff to amend Section 7.5 of the South Pender Island Local Trust Committee By-law Compliance and Enforcement Policy by replacing work in an environmentally sensitive area or there are health and safety concerns with, in cases where the contravention poses a significant risk to health, safety, or the environment.”
    • [2:33:32] “For right now, I'm going to turn back to that. Motion five is on 6.6. I move that South Pender LTC request staff to amend section 6.6 of the South Pender Island Local Trust Committee bylaw compliance and enforcement policy by adding the words immediate, risks, and identified so that it reads,”
    • [3:20:05] “And again, for all of the reasons that were in the ombudsperson's report, I don't feel that this is appropriate to have on the TUP conditions, especially seeing as that we've just undergone a whole bylaw compliance and enforcement update to address these specific types of issues.”

  2. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 8, 2026

    2026-05-08 · 289 lines

    • [0:55:19] “I support the process. But processes have to be looked at in individual cases as well, where it becomes a little more extreme. And I feel that this is more extreme, because it doesn't just affect our last year in office here, it affects the incoming trustees as well.”
    • [0:45:10] “And that's kind of what I just want to make sure that the public hear and understand as well. So that's why I wanted to have transparency on this discussion. Thank you.”
    • [1:12:34] “I don't know if we want to take a, unless we've got other questions for staff, do we want to take a quick five-minute break and I'll work on language?”

  3. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 13, 2026

    2026-02-13 · 663 lines

    • [3:19:10] “And I move that South Panda Island Local Trust Committee give by-law number 130, cited as South Panda Island Local Trust Committee Meeting Procedures Repeal By-law number 130, 2025, to the Islands Trust Executive Committee for consideration of approval.”
    • [3:22:40] “I move that South Panda Island Local Trust Committee amend bylaw number 131 cited as South Panda Island Local Trust Committee public notification bylaw number 131 2025 by replacing in brackets or open quotes to open quotes.”
    • [1:22:24] “And number three, the endorsement of the project charter was delayed due to running out of time during the September LTC meeting, followed by the cancellation of the November meeting.”

  4. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 2, 2025

    2025-05-02 · 571 lines

    • [3:43:11] “So by the time the trust policy statement has gone through first reading, by the time I get to next year, we'll be getting close to second and third reading on the trust policy statement.”
    • [2:29:46] “In column A, the floor area of the dwelling may not exceed the area in column B, despite 515B, for a lot that contained a legal dwelling constructed prior to September 15th.”
    • [2:51:08] “We had a request from a community member to address, you know, why we're doing this work and what our reasoning is and where we're getting our backing to do this work.”

  5. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, March 27, 2025

    2025-03-27 · 347 lines

    • [2:27:13] “I was just going to say, because we finished a lot of that early, I don't know if we want to open the floor again for any comments from what people heard today, or to just simply”
    • [0:37:06] “So if the legal opinion comes back and says, you know what, the way this is written is going to cause these issues, then we have the opportunity to address that.”
    • [0:37:16] “If the legal opinion comes back and says the way this is written will not cause any issues, it will be upheld in a court of law, then we're fine.”

  6. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 14, 2025

    2025-02-14 · 619 lines

    • [1:38:38] “I think we have had conversations and significant conversations regarding the like once once you start looking at that and you start chipping away at what comes off your actual livable area and the fact that we are an aging community the majority of people here are you know retired couples but there are people that have larger families there are accessibility issues”
    • [0:05:22] “And so as part of that discussion, we decided to combine two of our webinars into one specifically removing invasive species and native plant gardening as those would be practicable to combine into a webinar.”
    • [1:39:09] “That require and I think it was you need an extra 12% of your home to make it wheelchair accessible that makes for very small livable spaces and I am supportive of smaller house sizes.”

  7. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 17, 2025

    2025-01-17 · 389 lines

    • [1:23:38] “Right now, they are placed where they currently sit. They're already there. So increasing those lot lines aren't going to change where those houses are sitting, and they can rebuild where they're currently sitting.”
    • [1:23:18] “Well, if South Pando, say, 250 lots had not yet been developed, putting those increased side lot lines, then those houses would have been placed within those lot lines.”
    • [1:28:27] “before we get into this discussion, because there were a couple of other minor edits that have been brought up along the way, if I can be indulged.”

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

    2024-09-25 · 324 lines

    • [0:54:15] “Regardless, my preference in this letter for the request would be to include B, the clarification of the mandate, F, funding mechanisms, along with examples or suggestions of how we, what exactly are we asking them?”
    • [0:43:44] “Would that, because then if we can sit around a table together and hash it out versus us trying to formalize a letter that we just aren't able to land right now, is that something that could be doable?”
    • [0:43:33] “We're requesting the lieutenant governor and council in the province of British Columbia to formally request a meeting to discuss the approach to conduct a review of the Islands Trust.”

  9. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 13, 2024

    2024-09-13 · 570 lines

    • [2:30:26] “But it's whether or not this conversation can start or not. So if there's no interest, it won't start, but I am interested.”
    • [1:21:16] “was a suggestion that had come out of the workshop for, as an example, Boundary Pass being a separate zoning for that.”
    • [0:03:54] “recorded, and she shared about the history of what can only be described as effective genocide of the”

  10. Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, May 10, 2024

    2024-05-10 · 569 lines

    • [1:02:22] “So it's really just the topic. It's not so much, this is what one person said about this idea, this is what another person said about this idea. The idea is maybe we exclude garages. Maybe we put the cottage and the house size together in certain areas.”
    • [0:59:31] “And in your comments, it says, dependent on the decision of Section 2.10, the LTC recommends to retain regulation or amend the maximum floor area and total area, then staff recommends to retain this regulation.”
    • [0:46:04] “Includes changes to setbacks, minor changes to specific zoning, site-specific zoning for properties with existing temporary use permits, expansions, and permissions for contractor yards.”

  11. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 7, 2024

    2024-04-07 · 362 lines

    • [1:58:57] “What we'd have to do if we were to keep these in here, we'd have to have a staff person dedicated to reviewing that every time it changed.”
    • [0:11:39] “So I'm just saying that I was just curious, could you turn it over and it's page 16, but then it's obviously something else.”
    • [0:05:18] “So we did meet there. I think there might be, we're pretty close or maybe over the number of people that can be in there.”

  12. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 6, 2023

    2023-12-06 · 166 lines

    • [1:56:42] “I understood yesterday that if something were to be moved up, something needed to be moved off because they were only able to deal with two or three items at a time on their priority list.”
    • [2:20:59] “So if we're not going to sign up to it, I don't think we should send it back for further review if we've already decided we're not going to sign up for it.”
    • [2:20:47] “So if we're not going to sign up to this agreement, I think we've taken a look at whether or not we're going to sign up to it or not.”

  13. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 5, 2023

    2023-12-05 · 157 lines

    • [3:16:54] “we are not everything's just going to get lukewarm nothing is going to get get done it's too much our”
    • [0:55:27] “awarded yet so yeah we're still we're three years in and still waiting for the project to be awarded”
    • [4:22:44] “an update on the living in the trust area project um and we discussed the trust area mailing program”

  14. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, June 29, 2023

    2023-06-29 · 72 lines

    • [0:16:07] “you. I'd like to add to the new projects for Trust Council consideration, the corporate plan process project that's going to require a fair amount of staff time and resources in order to complete it.”
    • [1:14:58] “Can I just quickly respond to Trustee Harris and just very quickly raise his point that corporate planning in this motion makes it a priority.”
    • [1:00:00] “actually put forward even if it is just an interim plan is the right one because it's going to have”

  15. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, June 28, 2023

    2023-06-28 · 48 lines

    • [0:33:36] “using this image how do you know that those trees have not come from a managed forest operation that”
    • [0:02:46] “resources and technology for the benefit of first nations number three explore how to include first”
    • [0:03:00] “newcomers on island specific and global emerging issues to support community health resiliency and”

  16. South Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 3, 2023

    2023-02-03 · 161 lines

    • [1:26:08] “And the other side that's been raised as well with regards to having our island accessible to the rest of BC, while that is a very strong point, the immediate impact to the neighbours and the neighbourhood has to take precedence over a visitor, in my opinion.”
    • [0:44:21] “For myself, I would strongly recommend if anyone has an opinion or a position that they would like to make clear, that they write a letter.”
    • [2:08:16] “So can I. I move that South Pender Local Trust Committee request that staff advertise for the APC position applications.”