Trustee Graham

Trustee, Denman Island Local Trust Committee. 3,985 lines across 11 meetings, 2023-04-04 to 2026-08-24. 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. Denman LTC regular meeting, 24 August 2026

    2026-08-24 · 438 lines

    • [3:46:15] “13, so policy 13 talks about subdivisions for intended to support housing, must ensure adequate water supply, but the water supply is all about demonstrating long-term aquifer sustainability, but what if that particular housing development is going to use a portion, if not all, rainwater, then there is no requirement to demonstrate long-term aquifer suitability.”
    • [4:15:31] “And finally, I move that the Demmon-On-Logo Trust Committee add critical aquifer protection development increment area to the top of the future projects list as a Demmon-On-Logo housing review implementation project next step.”
    • [2:48:59] “Then you're not increasing the water use. Why would you need another. But it's a bit. It's tricky right because if you're if you're adding a bedroom. That means you're getting more people. That's true. That's right.”

  2. Denman LTC regular meeting, 23 June 2026

    2026-06-23 · 460 lines

    • [0:51:18] “They know that they are in comp prevention and they need to stop and they need to come back to the trust with either a rezoning application or at least some way of justifying what they're doing, despite the fact that we have laws that handle setbacks, laws, especially on agricultural land, about the number of camps, camping opportunities that we have.”
    • [2:11:20] “16. On the other hand, we don't know when 30 is going to happen. So that's, that's a real, you know, cat and mouse situation. So that's what I'm saying. I'm actually leaning towards asking staff to prepare those first draft by prior to receiving 30 to 60 to 64. And I'm wondering if we can use the policy 12, which gives us the 5%.”
    • [2:31:47] “it's not for nothing. If it's broken, I didn't mean to be disrespectful. All I'm saying is when you're looking at a clear cut. When are you enforcing on him? We've seen this time and time again.”

  3. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, December 16, 2025

    2025-12-16 · 341 lines

    • [0:04:13] “So we're going to be doing our best in march before we approve that budget to try and get it down to a more reasonable figure. That's not easy. Just before we started the meeting, our chair and I were discussing the non-discretional, which means we have no choice in the costs that we incur, like the CGE contract.”
    • [1:14:47] “Now, the reason I bring this up is that there has been a general confusion in the planning department regarding the policy that allows the population to increase by approximately 5% and the density.”
    • [3:18:24] “So I move that Denman-Island Local Trust Committee give bylaw number 259, cited as Denman-Island Local Trust Committee bylaw, public notification bylaw number 259, 2035, first reading.”

  4. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 20, 2025

    2025-05-20 · 307 lines

    • [0:26:50] “this. The previous Local Trust Committee started this review. It actually was planned more than 12 years ago when we stopped enforcement on illegal housing specifically because we wanted to review our housing policies and regulations, and it's taken it took almost 10 years for that review to start.”
    • [1:27:51] “Yeah. So the reason I put this on, I just wanted to have a quick conversation about the reaction that we got from our community and the fact that we are folding those two items into the overall housing review.”
    • [0:34:34] “I read through it. It looks like it's going to be a nice house and you'll be able to stay there and live there and know that you've done a good job.”

  5. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 8, 2025

    2025-05-08 · 391 lines

    • [1:16:30] “Because we can't seem to do it with the secondary dwellings. We can't do it with the suites. We can only do it with these multi-unit developments like Coho is a Coho-ish development with the housing agreement. That's how you do it. And we can't do it if we're going to wait for $10 million every time somebody wants to do it. That's never going to happen.”
    • [0:26:20] “This idea that, well, everybody will build a second dwelling and the population will swell. So in other words, we're not actually changing the potential build out by reducing the temporary use permit in a legal sense, not in a practical sense,”
    • [0:12:38] “Okay. So, and that could actually happen. That doesn't have to happen. In my mind, it doesn't have to happen during this housing review. If those type of technical changes or just tweaks for clarity happen after, I would be okay with that.”

  6. Denman Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, December 10, 2024

    2024-12-10 · 298 lines

    • [1:11:23] “And I'm starting to think about another minor project, I'm kind of assuming that the work on the previous minor project is now kind of like there's a gap until we have the community information meeting and the public hearing.”
    • [1:59:05] “Can we look at something more nuanced, like environmental impact or lot or something to at least address the fact that we are not interested in going beyond what we feel comfortable with, whatever that is.”
    • [1:51:35] “Yeah, that's great. I know that tiny homes is a very popular term right now. It's got a cool vibe to it, but it's good to have a term that covers all of the potential things that people choose to live in.”

  7. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, October 8, 2024

    2024-10-08 · 442 lines

    • [1:41:41] “We've always required the building code to be adhered to, except the ones you described don't, but we've always, as residents or as owners and builders, you always have to do that. That's not going to go away. So you are, in fact, flaunting that law if you happen to build something that doesn't comply with the BC Building Code.”
    • [1:51:11] “Thank you. So my goal here, when we do finally have this community conversation and we present all these great ideas, is that we push the envelope and we let the community push back, as opposed to being tentative and having the community say, well, you should go farther.”
    • [0:44:05] “And it just I'm starting to get a little nervous because now we're going to add another 5000 so that's $21,000 going to facilitate this discussion with Comox First Nations regarding in my mind, a simple, fairly simple list of changes to our housing regulations.”

  8. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 9, 2024

    2024-04-09 · 215 lines

    • [2:15:45] “Parish to consider just looking at supplying hardly with their own ferry from Bucky Bay, and they basically put it back to say that the agreement in the province wasn't allowing them to do that. So now we have to go to the Minister of Transportation”
    • [2:15:30] “Arlene wants, thinks this is something that Trust Council could do on the, but Trust Council doesn't take on, and it's frustrating that we've asked the province, we've asked BC”
    • [1:26:31] “appreciate that. One other final question. The idea of looking at temporary use permits as a minor project, I don't see the requirement.”

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

    2023-11-14 · 364 lines

    • [3:02:16] “And the only one, as Trustee Bartholomew says, making the ferries bigger on either end just makes the amount of time that we have to stay off our roads that much longer because there'll be more cars flying across.”
    • [0:50:19] “An accessory dwelling unit can be a building on a foundation, a bus, a year, a band, a whole range of things that people have chosen by history, by example, to live on.”
    • [0:04:36] “And one of the ones I found interesting was their suggestion that we as Councils remove the word Chief from our government titles, like Chief Executive Ops.”

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

    2023-06-06 · 475 lines

    • [2:41:30] “The first bullet states to bring into conformity dwelling units that were in existence but did not comply with the policies in this plan at the time of its adoption, 2009, provided that the applicant, that would be Steve Cavalieri, provide written evidence, that would be the letter submitted, written by Kathy Breeder, to the satisfaction of the Dem and not a local trust committee, that would be us, that the dwellings were constructed prior to the date of adoption of this plan.”
    • [2:10:43] “next motion is for staff to make a request to the Denman Housing Action Group that they presented to the local trustee and their ability to get some of the untold stories, some of the data that's not going to be picked up by consults, certainly not by the census.”
    • [2:02:51] “I move that the Dem and Imanlova Trust Committee request staff send a letter to relevant First Nations to ask how they would like to be engaged in the development of a housing action plan for Dem and Imanlova.”

  11. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 4, 2023

    2023-04-04 · 254 lines

    • [3:02:46] “My co-trustee at the time, Louise Bell, a very smart, passionate Islander, very smart woman, and I, we discussed it and we both agreed that we weren't happy with the idea of a ticketing by-law.”
    • [4:13:46] “And they all fall under guest accommodation, where you're going to have someone stay for up to 45 days in the calendar year, and that's what's tripping up the interpretation.”
    • [3:03:28] “If you're someone well below the poverty level, and I've lived most of my life below the poverty level, $500 is a lot of money.”